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, winter 2024-spring 2025 (seasonal, remote)

• Oversaw journalism awards application processes and timelines by coordinating communications, meeting submission requirements and completing entries on time.

Online News Association, Washington, D.c.

Communications manager (remote)

January 2023-October 2023

• Kept ONA community informed by promoting events, writing press releases, creating email and social media campaigns and writing email newsletters.

• 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

• 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.