BrianScottGallagher (@brianscottg)

547 Riverside Drive Apt. 5E New York, NY 10027

brianscottg@me.com
(714) 381-4507
EXPERIENCE

Freelance Writer, PolicyMic New York, NY (March 2014-Present)

Wrote a piece entitled Why a Liberal Arts Degree Will Make You a Better Entrepreneur. Its garnered 2,000 views in two
weeks and I got ten followers on Twitter as a result.

Editorial Intern, Byliner Inc San Francisco, CA (Oct. 2012-Feb. 2013)
Half-seriously I called Byliner, an online curator of narrative journalism, the Netflix of reading and around the office, the
phrase stuck. I proofread and edited 1,000-plus pages of long-form journalism, using the CMS to tag, categorize, and populate
the meta-data of each uploaded story. I researched the backlists of our clients published stories using online databases. I also
emailed them about whatever questions they had. Our writers would send in their old published material which I would scan
into our system and store away until packaging it up again to be sent back. I also created company slogans and helped define
the topics, genres, and moods by which our curated stories were categorized (e.g. a sweeping historical critique or a
glitzy celebrity profile).

News Intern, The Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara, CA (Feb. 2012-June 2012)
Pitched, wrote, edited, reported, and produced 19 news articles and features for this weekly periodical. Subjects included
alternative energy businesses, murder trials, publicity events of local groups, an Aikido master profile, clerical sexual assault,
university public lectures, local politics, and a world-wide movie premier.

EDUCATION

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY

M.S. (Concentration in long-form/argumentative/data journalism) Aug. 2013-May 2014
Brown Institute for Media Innovation Fellow. Masters Project is a profile of a young editor and his new publication, Jacobin
magazine, a fresh and hip take on culture, media, and politics through the lense of Marxism and socialism. Writing an approx.
6,000-word story about the legally contested removal of a 1919 fragile Picasso tapestry from the Four Seasons Restaurant.
Collaborating with the NY Times web analytics and engagement team to create an experimental multi-platform journalistic
product about music in New York. Report on wealth inequality for SplitCityNYC.com, a website I designed using Wordpress.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA
B.A. Philosophy, Professional Editing and Writing (Sept. 2008-June 2012)
Awarded a distinction in philosophy for thesis on post-war responsibilities in Just War Theory. Columnist for the Daily Nexus
school newspaper news, feature, and arts writer for The Bottom Line weekly alternative campus newspaper. Designed a
magazine for an Editing Program project. President of Philosophy Club Vice President of SURE (a club for skeptics,
agnostics, atheists, and the non-religious). Visited Telluride, CO, for a film festival class and wrote six movie reviews. A-league
Intra-mural Basketball Champion.

SKILLS&HOBBIES

Multimedia: Editing softwareAdobe Audition and Photoshop. Computer languageR: I can create and analyze data sets
as well as illustrate them with beautiful visualizations and infographics. I also know how to create, operate, and customize
Wordpress sites using CSS. Good on social media: Instagram, Vine, Twitter, or Facebook.
Investigative: Im familiar with foraging for public documents online and filing FOIA and FOIL requests.
Activities: Medium.com editor of the Writing, Thinking, and Opinions collection. I devour online and print magazines. Still
play pick-up basketball for exercise. Love reading criticism, politics, history, historical fiction, and academic philosophy.

REFERENCES

Michael Shapiro, Columbia Journalism School (212) 854-3851, ms106@columbia.edu

Stephen Fried, Columbia Journalism School (215) 287-9392, stephenfried1@gmail.com
Matt Dellinger, former Content Director at Byliner Inc (917) 922-1708, matt@mattdellinger.com