Engaging audiences with creative copy while keeping content and projects organized

Carrie Blazina

• A decade of experience as a professional communicator thriving at the intersection of communicating effectively and keeping audiences informed.

• Expertise in keeping audiences and communities updated, including on tight deadlines, in formats such as social media, email newsletters and blog posts.

• Background working in newsrooms and nonprofits in a variety of roles, handling both specialized responsibilities and general editorial support.

• Experience managing projects and tasks by using technology and organizational skills to juggle competing timelines, set reminders, assign steps and meet deadlines.

• Skilled at communicating clearly, maintaining attention to detail, multitasking, taking initiative, generating ideas, problem solving and determining priorities.

Experience

The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts

Contest coordinator, December 2024-present (seasonal, remote)

• Project-managing awards application processes and timelines by coordinating communications, meeting submission requirements and completing entries on time.

• Praised by staff for creating “one of our most organized and easy contest seasons.”

Online News Association, Washington, D.c.

Communications manager (remote)

January 2023-October 2023

• Kept ONA community informed by providing editorial support, such as promoting events, writing weekly and seasonal email newsletters, writing press releases and creating email and social media engagement campaigns.

• Pitched and wrote blog posts, such as gathering takeaways from learning sessions, conducting Q&As with community members and highlighting programs and events.

• Refreshed engagement strategy by starting new social media accounts, customizing content on each channel, creating a career-focused newsletter on LinkedIn and growing the ONA Slack community.

• Managed projects such as event and program communications by setting timelines, making assignments and meeting deadlines. Wrote compelling targeted and member-only email campaigns.

• Edited blog posts, guides and documents for mechanics, style and accuracy.

Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
Digital producer (hybrid)

2020 - 2023. Promoted from associate digital producer to digital producer in June 2021.

• Produced and published daily blog posts with the Center’s analysis and research. 

• Helped manage editorial production calendar and timing of projects, liaising with every research team.

• Pitched, researched and wrote data-driven blog posts, using social media and analytics to learn what the audience was interested in and pitch relevant content.

• Wrote and project-managed social media campaign that successfully targeted new audiences and used short video loops, callouts and quizzes.

• Composed a weekly email newsletter, highlighting and summarizing new publications and resurfacing archival content.

• Fact checked blog posts, ensuring data was used accurately, proper context was given and research descriptions were correct.

• Worked with writers to check social media copy and implement blog post edits, taking care to consider their perspective and have diplomatic conversations while ensuring published content was accurate, readable and engaging. 

The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts

Multiplatform copy editor, 2014-19 (in person)

• Edited breaking news stories and longer features, often at least a dozen a day, for correct grammar, spelling, style and accuracy, and produced them for BostonGlobe.com as part of the Express Desk (breaking news operation). 

• Wrote engaging headlines for stories, added related content, sent social media posts and news alerts, and updated the BostonGlobe.com homepage.

• Shaped the responsibilities and workload as one of two inaugural multiplatform Express Desk editors, then became the sole person in that role for more than a year.

Skills, Platforms

• Audience engagement

• Editorial content strategy

• Communications strategy

• Project management

• Writing

• Editing

• Email newsletters

• Email marketing

• Workflow management

• Social media posting and strategy, primarily on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Threads

• Digital production

• Copy editing

• AP style

• Proofreading

• Fact checking

• Headline writing

• Search engine optimization (SEO)

• Webpage layout

• Google Suite (Docs, Sheets)

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)

• WordPress (for content management)

• Basecamp

• MailChimp

• Slack

• Buffer

• Parse.ly

• Google Analytics

Activities

• December 2025-present: Freelance fact checker for Boston Globe Magazine.

• August 2024-present: Editor for Boston Globe games content, editing copy, testing games and improving eligible word lists.

• June 2024-present: Cambridge Bicycle Safety volunteer, writing and editing blog posts and emails.

• Served on the Center’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Council for 2.5 years, improving the digital accessibility of editorial products and scheduling training on managing workplace stress. 

• Appeared as a contestant on “Jeopardy!” on Dec. 20, 2018.