Associate Editor @ From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Freelance Writer @ From January 2011 to Present (5 years) San Francisco Bay AreaAssistant editor @ • Assigned and edited Sunset’s Northwest and Northern California travel editions, which included two monthly day trips and producing a quarterly multi-page city guide
• Helped write, edit, and assign multi-spread travel features
• Managed Sunset’s blog, Westphoria: Worked with staff bloggers to assign, write, and edit blog posts
on topics ranging from grilling to home design
• Managed Sunset’s social media presence on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Google+, and Facebook, with an emphasis on growing communities and pushing out strong, engaging content
• Developed a monthly social campaign centered around each issue, ranging from Twitter parties to pin-and-win contests to Facebook photo challenges and Instagram contests
• Acted as a liaison between the print and digital teams, and produced digital content like narrated slideshows, web packages, and e-singles From September 2012 to February 2014 (1 year 6 months) Editorial Assistant @ From January 2012 to August 2012 (8 months) Contributing Writer @ • Cover the Washington tech industry for a popular Seattle technology blog with an average of 150,000 monthly unique visitors.
• Provide accurate and compelling coverage of local and national technology news, including local startups, venture capital, Microsoft, Amazon and the wireless industry.
• Consistently commended for thorough coverage of anticipated and spontaneous news for an online audience. From March 2011 to March 2012 (1 year 1 month) Editorial Intern @ • Reported on e-commerce, small business, green technology and nonprofits for an award-winning weekly business journal.
• Provided reporting and feature writing for both online media and a print audience.
• Assisted in fact-checking, copyediting and proofing the newspaper each week.
• Interviewed Seattle business leaders and wrote compelling copy for special issues. From September 2010 to December 2010 (4 months) Copy Editing Intern @ • Worked with editors and columnists at a daily paper to identify topics of local interest.
• Selected, edited and wrote headlines for Letters to the Editor following AP Stylebook guidelines. From June 2010 to September 2010 (4 months) Editorial Intern @ • Wrote feature stories and profiles about Washington wine, food and design industries for a monthly magazine and posted regularly to its blog.
• Performed a variety of duties, including reporting, researching, fact-checking, proofreading and writing headlines for each issue. From March 2009 to August 2009 (6 months)
Diplome de la Langue Français, French @ Université Rennes II From 2009 to 2010 Bachelor of Arts, Communication; Journalism @ University of Washington From 2008 to 2010 Inglemoor High School Aislyn Greene is skilled in: Copy Editing, Blogging, Editing, Fact-checking, Journalism, Ap Style, Proofreading, Newspaper, Editorial, Social Media, Copywriting, Magazines, Press Releases, Feature Articles, Storytelling
Websites:
http://westphoria.sunset.com,
http://sunset.com