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.

Education

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

Summa cum laude. Bachelor’s of science in news, with a concentration in newspaper.
Graduated May 2014

Contact

Email: cb061015@gmail.com
Address: Cambridge, Ma