AMANDA D.

FISCINA
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adfiscina@gmail.com 516.647.6413 @adfiscina

294 West 92nd Street Apartment 1A New York, N.Y. 10025

EXPERIENCE
Homepage Editor, Aol.com New York, N.Y.

April 2012 December 2013

Selected news to feature on a legacy site with 13M daily UVs, updated dozens of times daily. Wrote engaging promos that condensed complex news and optimized traffic to Aol brands and partners. Chose and edited on Photoshop the best photo to accompany each promo. Managed page alone at 5 a.m. weekdays (June 2013 to present) and on Sundays (June 2012 to June 2013). Curated, designed and distributed the daily Aol newsletter to nearly 200,000 subscribers. Vetted the web for viral videos and stories and helped verticals develop content and video, specifically fielded pitches for Newsy, Skye Weather and the HuffPost Green, Politics, World, Religion and College sections. Covered breaking news events live on the page, including the Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy, Pope Francis announcement, Supreme Court gay marriage ruling. Responsible for branded editorial content campaigns for the Huffington Post Small Business vertical. Handled traffic exchanges with FoxNews.com and InteractiveOne. Monitored live click through rate and other traffic metrics.

Editor, Patch.com Farmingdale and Smithtown, N.Y.

May 2010 March 2012

Launched and managed two community news websites updated hourly, seven days a week. Wrote all breaking news, crime, government, education news and trend features, planned dozens of pieces of original/aggregated content per week, shot/selected photos, copy edited, wrote SEO headlines. Promoted content and engaged audience on social media. Grew Twitter, Facebook following by thousands. Reviewed site metrics daily and met stretch traffic goals quarterly. Selected for the Patch Regional Video Production team, coordinated video projects for 10+ sites in region.

Intern, Investment News New York, N.Y.

January 2010 May 2010 January 2009 December 2009

Wrote pieces for the print/web editions, fact checked monthly exclusives on ETFs, RIAs and earnings reports.

Editor-in-Chief, The Ram Bronx, N.Y.

Managed the content, copy stylebook, design, investigative projects, breaking news and production of Fordham Universitys 90-year-old journal of record reaching more than 15,000 student/faculty/alumni readers each week. Supervised 15 section editors and 20 writers. Spearheaded social media additions and managed the redesign of website to include blogs, RSS, live updates.

Editorial Board Fellowship, The New York Post New York, N.Y.

June 2009 August 2009

Pitched ideas to editorial page editor and wrote several editorials on topics like the new Times Square plazas. Assisted in selecting, editing and designing the daily Letters to the Editor page on InDesign.

Intern, Inside Edition, CBS Television New York, N.Y.

September 2008 December 2009 May 2008 June 2009

Assisted with investigative reports like the AIG scandal on set of the longest-running television newsmagazine.

Reporter, Anton Community Newspapers Long Island, N.Y.

Reported for this chain of weekly community newspapers covering Nassau County. Produced coverage of land development controversies, local politics, education, business and resident profiles.

EDUCATION
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, May 2013 M.S. Digital Media Fordham University, May 2010 B.A. American Studies and Journalism - Magna Cum Laude

SKILLS
Full proficiency in:
Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Final Cut Pro, Audacity, SoundSlides, ProTools Content management systems, blogging publishing platforms (WordPress, Tumblr) and all social media Basic HTML coding, CSS and Javascript, SPSS, Microsoft Office AP Style, copyediting Digital photo, video and audio shooting and editing

AWARDS AND HONORS

Speaker, Associated Press conference panel on entrepreneurial, web-based journalism, October 2013 Patch Editor of the Quarter Spring 2010 Columbia Scholastic Press Gold Circle Award 2009, American Scholastic Press 1st Place Newspaper 2009 Edward A. Walsh Media Scholarship- full scholarship given to one Fordham senior for excellence in journalism Newsweek- Featured in cover articles: Top Colleges in America (9/07), Getting in Early (8/06) by writer Jay Mathews Intel STS 2006 Semifinalist in Social Science Salutatorian Plainedge High School Class of 2006

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
West Side Campaign Against Hunger New York, N.Y. St. Kilian Social Ministry/Outreach Farmingdale, N.Y. P.O.T.S. Soup Kitchen Bronx, N.Y. Fordham University Church Liturgical Coordinator September 2013 - Present February 2011 - June 2013 September 2008 - May 2009 September 2007 - May 2010