Resume/CV

PROFILE

Writer, reporter, and editor with more than 15 years of experience in feature, lifestyle, and news coverage for print and online media.

EXPERIENCE

WRITER/EDITOR, FREELANCE
ISTANBUL, JAN. 2008 – PRESENT

• Writing articles for California, Dance Gazette, Ethical Corporation, Hürriyet Daily News, Istanbul Eats, J Magazine, The National, PlanetGreen.com, Salon.com, Selections, Sierra, Time Out Istanbul, Today’s Zaman, and Wired
• Covering environmental news in Turkey and the region as Istanbul correspondent for TreeHugger.com
• Writing expert guide to Istanbul for Simonseeks.com
• Updating guidebooks to Istanbul and Turkey for DK Travel, Fodor's, Northstar Travel Media, and Zagat
• Editing for corporate and academic clients
• Writing reports, including a strategy report on Eurasia for an NGO focused on capacity building, and a risk analysis and competitive assessment on demining the Turkey-Syria border

FRONT PAGE EDITOR, HÜRRIYET DAILY NEWS
ISTANBUL, FEB. 2009 – SEPT. 2011
(promoted from Copy Editor)

• Edited front page news articles, special projects, and other key content for Turkey's top English-language newspaper
• Worked with writers, reporters, and copy editors to improve their skills
• Wrote headlines, spots, captions, graphic text, and other display copy for front page

LIFESTYLE EDITOR, SIERRA
SAN FRANCISCO, NOV. 1998 – JAN. 2008

(promoted from Senior Associate Editor and Assistant Editor)

• Wrote and edited news, lifestyle, and feature articles and created feature packages for nationally circulated environmental magazine with 1.4 million readers
• Created Sierra’s first green-lifestyle department and promoted it through radio and television appearances and interviews with print reporters
• Created and wrote the primary content for Sierra’s lifestyle blog
• Edited book by Sierra’s advice columnist, Hey Mr. Green (Sierra Club Books, April 2008)

WRITER/EDITOR, FREELANCE
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 1998 – DEC. 2001

• Wired.com — Wrote news and feature articles on the politics and culture of technology
• ArtandCulture.com — Wrote introductions to artists and art movements
• SonicNet.com — Copy-edited daily music news content, using AP and house style
• Wrote and edited for other publications, including Babycenter.com, El Reportero, More.com, MyLifePath.com, Nob Hill Gazette, Productopia.com, and SOMA

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, CNET
SAN FRANCISCO, AUG. 1997 – MARCH 1998

• Wrote daily features and a weekly department on education, science, and the arts
• Generated article topics, created weekly publishing schedules, and assisted in creating a long-term content development plan

ASSISTANT EDITOR, MOTHERJONES.COM
SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 1996 – JUNE 1997

(promoted from Editorial Fellow)

• Wrote news articles, media reviews, and press releases
• Assigned, edited, and fact-checked news articles, columns, and other features by freelance and staff writers
• Planned and executed the redesign of significant portions of the website, supervised HTML production, and helped create and maintain searchable online databases

AWARDS

Edited or co-edited three Maggie Award-winning pieces for Sierra, including "Ode to the Bus" (Best Signed Editorial or Essay, 2002) and "Photography of Hope" (Best Series of Editorial Photographs, 2007).

During my tenure at Sierra, the magazine was also nominated seven times for its overall coverage of social and political issues.

EDUCATION

University of California at Santa Cruz — Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies with a Journalism minor, June 1996; Regents Scholarship, honors in the major

Dilmer Language Teaching Center, Istanbul — Upper-Intermediate Turkish, July 2008