Emily Gertz's Resume
Journalist and editor with nearly ten years of experience in environmental reporting, combined with over 15 years of hands-on innovation in online news, content, and social media. A talent for anticipating significant economic, political, and cultural trends. Expertise in online content strategy. Skilled in online community cultivation, real-time reporting with blogs and Twitter, and news curation.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Co-author of "Environmental Monitoring With Arduino," published by O'Reilly Media, 2012.
- Increased OnEarth magazine's Twitter following tenfold within a year, from fewer than 500 to about 5,000
- Reported daily from 2009 Copenhagen climate talks as correspondent for OnEarth.org and independent reporter for Oxfam International, via audio slideshows, articles, blog, Twitter
- Broke new ground reporting on sustainable business, energy, technologies, more, as a founding blogger of Worldchanging.com
- Created several sections of "Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century," published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.
- Led reporting and editing of multi-part, multimedia series on Mississippi River environment and development for Grist.org
- Founded, reported, and wrote authoritative daily blog on climate change science and politics (now out of print), for Change.org
- Performed daily multimedia web production on deadline in breaking/daily news environment, for OregonLive.com, web site of The Oregonian, Oregon's largest newspaper
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Journalist and Editor, New York, NY, 2003-present
- Correspondent, OnEarth magazine, 2009-present
- Community Co-coordinator, OnEarth.org, 2010-2011
- Assignments for Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, USA Today, more
- Climate Change Editor, Change.org, 2008-2009
- Interim Managing Editor, Worldchanging.com, 2007
- Contributor, Worldchanging.com, 2004-2007
Freelance Content Strategist, New York, NY 2003-present
- Social media strategy, content inventory, content strategy, content mapping, copy writing, editing, more
Faculty, "Digital Environmental Journalism," New York University-Gallatin School, Fall 2007
Senior Web Producer, Spa Finder Magazine, New York, NY, June 2002-Mar. 2003
New Media & Technologies Manager, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, July 2001-Feb. 2002
Content Strategist, Scient, New York, NY, 2000
Environmental News Producer, OregonLive.com, Portland, Ore., Mar. 1998-Dec. 1999
Freelance Web Producer, Eugene and Portland, Ore., 1995-1999
SELECTED BYLINES
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
COMPASS Journalism Fellowship to attend "The Ocean in a High-CO2 World" conference, September 2012
Montana 20-20-20 Fellowship, Society of Environmental Journalists, 2010
Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2010
Gold Award for Best Feature Article, Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Assn., "On the Edge of the Future: What are some of the world's poorest cities getting right, and what can they teach us?" Momentum cover story, 2009
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, MIT/Kavli Workshop on Nano Technology, 2009
Society of Environmental Journalists Conference Fellow, 2006
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Panelist, "Working with Citizen Journalists and Community Contributors," Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Conference 2010
Panelist, "Environmental Journalism, Media, and Technology," Green Schools NYC 2010
Panelist, "You Are Not Just Writing--You Are in a Business Venture," National Association of Science Writers Annual Meeting 2009:
Beat Dinner Host, "All A-Twitter About Nothing? Social Media and Environmental Journalism," Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Conference 2009
Panelist, "Social Media and Sustainability," SXSW Interactive 2009
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Environmental Journalists: Freedom of Information committee member, 2009-present; conference blog coordinator, 2010, 2009
EDUCATION
M.A. Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
B.A. Political Science, Rutgers University
