Lindsey Kratochwill

727-409-0352 | LindseyKrat@gmail.com | LindseyKratochwill.com | @LindseyKrat

420 E 21st Street #404 Brooklyn, NY 11226
Education Experience
Popular Science Magazine | assistant editor
Continue to edit the FEED section and back page; edit and write consumer
tech stories for the NOW section; contribute to the website. (2014)
Popular Science Magazine | editorial assistant
Managed the editor-in-chiefs schedule; processed invoices and contracts,
logged issue expenditures; organized video production; pitched and wrote
print and web stories; edited the FEED section and back page of the
magazine; wrote promotional text for the tablet app. (2013-2014)
Fast Company Magazine | editorial intern, freelance writer
Pitched and wrote tech, health, business and science stories for print front-
of-book sections; crafted sidebars and researched for feature stories; fact-
checked and produced print stories for the web; assisted in covering the
TED conference for FastCompany.com. (2012-2013)
In These Times Magazine | editorial intern
Wrote weekly blog posts about politics, policy and activism; contributed
articles for print; fact-checked, copy edited and aided in fundraising research
at the nonprofit monthly magazine. (2012)
Food Safety News | editorial intern
Pitched and wrote feature stories about food policy and foodborne illness
for the online news website. (2011)
Newcity Magazine | editorial intern, freelance writer
Pitched and wrote for the front-of-book and music sections; participated
in collaborative group projects; and created multimedia content for the
alt weekly publication. Wrote a feature cover story about the shapenote-
singing community in Chicago. (2010)
WMNF 88.5 FM | news reporter
Recorded and edited interviews in the field, covering public hearings to
protests. Wrote scripts and tracked stories for the nightly news show.
Produced a 30-minute documentary that ran serially. (2009)
Collabolab | research assistant
Conducted an independent research project, analyzing how companies can
successfully communicate with consumers and fans on Facebook. (2010)
Medill-Northwestern Journalism Inst. | Instructor
Taught audio, visual and print journalism to 86 high school journalists in a
summer program on Northwesterns campus. (2012)
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University
Concentration in Magazine Journalism
Minors in Spanish and Environmental Policy
Graduated: June 2012
Skills
Web Design | HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Print Design | Adobe InDesign
Audio Editing | Adobe Audition, Audacity,
Hindenburg
Video Editing | Final Cut Express, Adobe Pemiere
Other skills | Copy editing, Fact-checking,
Spanish languge (proficient)
Popular Science
Fast Company
ScientificAmerican.com
In These Times
OrionMagazine.org
Newcity
FoodSafetyNews.com
MidwestEnergyNews.com
Immigrantconnect.org
Draugas Newspaper
WBEZ.org 91.5 FM
WMNF.org 88.5 FM
North by Northwestern
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