Adam Hurlburt: Freelance Writer in Davenport, IA

Coerce editors to fund freewheeling adventures in exchange for the product of grueling keyboard battles with the demons Perfectionism, Anxiety, and Self-Doubt.

Manage every aspect of production for "Up To Speed," the most popular show on YouTube's biggest car enthusiast channel. This included everything from coordinating footage requests with OEMs to research, writing, and topic ideation. Work with freelance video editors to craft each episode. Write scripts and collaborate with freelance writers to ensure consistent voice. I successfully pivoted the show from monthly to weekly, and my episodes average more than 915,000 views in the first seven days, and more than 460,000 on the first day. My work helped Donut Media gain some 2 million subscribers in a year.

Develop and maintain a unique brand voice and manage social media channels for the Midwest’s preeminent heavy metal craft brewery.

Write articles, press releases, and ghostwrite columns for several national and regional not-for-proft organizations.

Write articles for the web’s largest automotive social media site, averaging roughly 40,000 unique page views per article.

Write articles, shoot and edit photos and video, copy edit articles to AP Style, choose and edit wire articles, sub as Managing Editor.

I was a TV ghost hunter once upon a time. My duties were to interview local sources on camera, hunt for ghosts on camera, provide on the spot on-camera monolog recaps of events, and record voice overs. It was a cool way to travel around the world for free.

Copy edit articles to AP Style, design and layout newspaper pages, choose and edit wire articles.