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Environmental and Outdoor Recreation Freelance Reporter

Freelance & Contract

I am a journalist interested in the state of our environment and the way we use it. Passion for adventure and our unhealthy relationship with natural resources drives me to create media that not only explores and explains the Human-Nature interface, but also generates new knowledge, raises questions, and requires hands-on investigation and scholarship to produce. Over the past year, this drive manifested in an editorial fellowship with Outside Magazine.

Despite lifelong predilection for the humanities, college reintroduced me to the applicability of science in everyday life. After completing a degree in Mandarin Chinese at UNC-Chapel Hill (2009-2013), I pursued my new interest as a writing and research fellowship with the School of Journalism’s Powering a Nation program, an award-winning Carnegie-Knight media lab focused on American natural resource use. I led the team’s writing and research groups; created an interactive about sustainable water systems; and helped conceptualize a multimedia exploration of Colorado River water appropriation. I then examined science more deeply at WVIZ/WCPN ideastream as an intern with QUEST Science—a national NSF-funded media project exploring the science of sustainability. After honing my writing skills and teaching myself technologies required for other forms of media—audio, video, and photography—I came to the attention of Outside Magazine's editors, who asked me to apply for my assistantship.

Though invested in environmental and backcountry issues, I've covered topics inclusive of archaeology, automotive technology, human rights, and more for news outlets like CNN, and am proficient in

writing//editing//copy editing//social media//photography

and a host of skills gathered before discovering journalism at the tail-end of my junior year.

Ask me for more information about my work—and about that time I performed American rock music at a university in China—via email.

Producing, writing, and researching pieces for outdoor-oriented magazines.

•Pitched and reported pieces about outdoor recreation, namely related gear, environmental factors, fitness ideas, and travel locations
•Edited and formatted magazine, online content for Outside's digital platform
•Managed Outside's Twitter account while doing own job before a permanent social media manager was hired
•Fact checked, re-reported magazine fitness features 
•Coordinated acquisition, fact check, and return of products in Gear Channel's 144-item Holiday Gift Guide
•Repurposed archived material for current digital use
•Assistantship was originally six months; extended three times for a cumulative 11 months

Editorial Assistant

QUEST Science is a national Public Broadcasting Service multimedia project funded by the National Science Foundation. QUEST partner stations create multimedia exploring and explaining the science of sustainability. 

- researched, interviewed for and wrote multiple online articles, standalone infographics, newsletters and radio stories
- translated radio scripts into article formats
- initiated weekly environmental news and pitch recap
- assisted in production of radio, TV and online content
- edited contributor content
- formatted with WordPress and ideastream CMS

QUEST Science Intern

-Developed knowledge-based multimedia experience regarding Colorado River water use
-Led writing and research team devoted to Colorado River project
-Created interactive map of UNC-Chapel Hill's sustainable water features with grant from UNC Water Theme

Summer Fellow

-Pitched & created content for nine desks 
-Summarized CNN.com user comments 
-Formatted with CNN.com’s custom CMS

Feature Writing Intern, CNN.com

-Established relationships with >300 artists 
-Developed a master musician database 
-Handled public relations for potential artists

Marketing Intern

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Hannah Weinberger: Environmental and Outdoor Recreation Freelance Reporter in Santa Fe, NM

Hannah Weinberger

Laurel School

Middlebury Monterey Language Academy

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Xiamen University