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Pat Healy
Email: Pat@PatHealyArchive.com Professional Experience Berklee Online, Boston
* Write, edit, and proofread educational and marketing materials
* Won several awards for Creative Marketing from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association for work related to marketing campaigns in the spring and summer of 2016 * Cofounded Take Note, Berklee Online's first content marketing blog * Produce, write, and create Music is My Life, a regular podcast through Take Note * Helped structure educational and promotional material for the school's first ever online graduate program * Conceived, researched, wrote, and produced The Roaring Crowdfund, a five-part podcast series about a group of musicians, struggling and strategizing through crowdfunding campaigns, which won the UPCEA silver medal in the Streaming/On-Demand Content category in 2019 * Conceive, coordinate, and supervise content marketing campaigns for Berklee Online, including organic, paid, and efforts through email, partnerships, and subscriptions * Optimize content for SEO, which to date has generated more than 17,000 leads and more than $1.7 million in directly-attributed revenue for Berklee Online
A Rock 'n' Roll True Crime Podcast, frequently in the Apple Music Top 10 Podcasts Editor/Writer September 2018-April 2022 * Beginning with season 1, assisting host and creator with editorial direction of this bi-weekly podcast * Co-wrote several episodes, including ones about Sid Vicious, Bob Marley, and the Grateful Dead * Edited the first 100 episodes for content, tone, and inclusion of additional information
Copyeditor September 2020-September 2021 * A True Crime Podcast about missing persons who were last seen at Grateful Dead concerts
Freelance writing 2000-Present
Metro Newspapers, New York, Boston, Philadelphia
* Managing all section editors, writers and sections within the features department to produce up to 30 pages of national and local content per day and approximately 20 unique stories online
* Top-editing features articles (including entertainment, style, food, travel, home, careers, pets, education and finance stories) * Spotting trends and finding new and inventive ways to communicate them to readers * Coordinating a series of special sections that run in the newspaper on a weekly basis * Representing Metro as the public face of the entertainment and features departments, including TV, web and other marketing and PR appearances. * Copyediting and headlining stories * Overseeing monthly budgets Music Editor, Metro World News, May 2010-November 2014 * Writing and coordinating high-profile sharable music content with all of the Metro newspapers around the world * Assigning and editing music stories for papers with a presence in 66 cities and 17 countries, with a daily readership of approximately 17 million * Coordinating guest editors, such as Vampire Weekend, who in 2013, joined Metro for a day to coordinate content, comment on stories and sit for an extensive interview * Establishing strong connections with publicists and industry insiders for exclusive scoops and unparalleled access * Writing, producing and recording a monthly podcast for download that features music from bands to listen out for, words of wisdom from bands listeners already know and music quizzes. * Writing weekly CD picks for publication * Reviewing concerts for the web Entertainment Editor, Metro Boston, February 2006-February 2013* Formulating, researching and writing arts and entertainment articles for publication for a paper with a daily readership of approximately 200,000 * Delivering consistent quality sections, which helped Metro Boston beat the Boston Herald and become the second most read paper in the city. * Interviewing celebrities for features * Assigning writers stories for publication * Shooting photos for features * Assembling multi-page features on content ranging from Holiday Gift Guide and Gay Pride Guide to Arts Previews and Summer Activities * Writing and editing Boston Uncovered, a 36-page magazine, highlighting Boston activities, restaurants, clubs and uncovered gems for incoming college Freshman
The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston, MA 2005-2006
The Boston Globe, Boston, MA 2004-2006 Somerville Correspondent * Formulating, researching and writing multiple articles every week for the Globe's City Weekly section. * Closely following happenings in city government, arts and culture and establishing contacts within those realms Awards UPCEA Won the the University Professional and Continuing Education Association's silver medal in the Streaming/On-Demand Content category in 2019 for The Roaring Crowdfund podcast Offshore Magazine writing contest Won third place in Offshore's 2004 writing contest for the short story "The Happiest Days in a Sailor's Life." 48 Hour Film Project Won Best Musical for lyrical work in the 2004 short film "Sweeter by Far."
Founder/Partner *Web - HTML, SEO, WordPress, Photoshop, Illustrator *General Computer Software - Logic, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, InDesign and QuarkXpress
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