Ethan Stark-Miller

ethan.stark-miller@journalism.cuny.edu • (917) 816-6319

linkedin.com/in/ethan-stark-miller-97796a92 • https://estarkmiller.wordpress.com/

EDUCATION

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, New York, NY

Master of Arts in Journalism, Expected December 2019

Wheaton College Massachusetts, Norton, MA

Bachelor of Arts. in Film and New Media Studies, May 2018

EXPERIENCE

Freelance Writer, New York, NY September 2018 – Present

Work includes: City Limits, story about Lower East Side arts organizations forming a culture council to give public
housing residents more agency over neighborhood arts programming; The Villager, a profile of Sammy Gluck, who has
been selling suits on the Lower East Side for 35 years; Patch-Lower East Side, story about a 2018 Reform Party
Congressional candidate, who got the party’s nomination without running in its primary; and Juvenile Justice Information
Exchange, co-reported and wrote story about mothers who turned to activism after losing children to gun violence.

Broken News, Norton, MA September 2017 – May 2018

Independent Capstone Project
Produced a 3-episode (roughly 20 minutes each) podcast series about fake news. Interviewed media experts and political
scientists. Wrote scripts, captured sound, edited in Adobe Audition CC, and promoted via social media.

BLENDtw (startup digital-first news site), New York, NY July 2017 – November 2017
Intern Writer
Stories include: a review of the film The Big Sick; a retrospective on the actions of Scott Pruitt while he was at the EPA;
and a look into the Democrats’ platform for the 2018 midterms.

Projects of Passion, Norton, MA January 2017 – May 2017

Independent Podcast Production
Produced a 3-episode podcast interviewing college students about their independent projects and creative processes.
Episodes: Founder of a campus politics and culture magazine; director of a spoken-word performance series; and
promoter of innovation-geared working spaces on campus.

Babe Lincoln (Wheaton’s Politics and Culture Magazine), Norton, MA January 2017 – May 2017
Editorial Fellow,
Wrote an op-ed about current state of the Democratic Party and strategies for winning in the 2020 presidential election.

Comedy Central/Spike (Viacom), New York, NY June 2016 – August 2016

Post Production Operations Intern
Worked as part of a team to manage and maintain the departmental FileMaker database. Provided administrative support
to the department wherever it was needed.

SKILLS
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition CC, Avid Pro Tools, Carto, Datawrapper, Microsoft Excel, WordPress.com
Hardware: Marantz PMD661 audio recorders and Canon DSLR and C100 cameras
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud
Research: Ban.jo, Dataminr, Spokeo, Access World News, LexisNexis, Google News
Coding: HTML, CSS
Awards: Posse Foundation Full-Tuition Leadership Scholarship (2014-2018), Magna cum laude