Amanda Fiscina is an Aol.com homepage editor at the Huffington Post Media Group. She is studying Digital Media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and graduated from Fordham University in 2010, where she was editor-in-chief of The Ram, the university newspaper. She was formerly an editor at Patch.com, AOL's hyperlocal news websites and has written for Anton Community Newspapers, The New York Post, Investment News, and worked on the set of Inside Edition.
Specialties: Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, SoundSlides, ProTools, HTML, CSS, content management systems and social media.
• Launched and managed two community news websites updated hourly, seven days/week.
• Wrote on an array of subjects: all breaking news, crime, government, education and trend news and features.
• Coordinated more than 50 pieces of original/aggregated content per week: selected photos, copy edited, andwrote headlines for all pieces. Recruited and oversaw a team of bloggers and freelancers.
• Promoted content and engaged audience on social media. Grew Twitter and Facebook following by thousands.
• Met stretch site engagement and traffic goals quarterly and monitored site metrics daily.
• Selected for the Patch Regional Video Production team. Editor of the Quarter Spring 2010.
• Wrote/assisted on more than a dozen human interest pieces for the print/web editions.
• Researched and fact checked monthly exclusives on ETFs, RIAs and earnings reports.
• Managed the content, copy stylebook, design, investigative projects, breaking news and production of FordhamUniversity’s 90-year-old journal of record reaching more than 15,000 student/faculty/alumni readers each week.
• Led both the print and web editions, including direct supervision of 15 section editors and 20 writers.
• Spearheaded social media additions and managed the redesign of website to include blogs, RSS, live updates.
• Pitched ideas to editorial page editor and wrote several editorials on topics like the new design of Times Square plazas.
• Assisted in selection, editing and design of the daily Letters to the Editor page on InDesign CS4.
• Reported and wrote for a chain of weekly community newspapers covering Nassau County.
• Produced coverage of land development controversies, local government and school board meetings and profiles of residents.
• Assisted on the set of the longest-running television newsmagazine.
• Helped the investigative unit with reports on Congressional travel stipend abuse and the AIG scandal.