MELISSA GOLDIN
WRITING | EDITING | ETC.

A skilled storyteller with a passion for the truth, I have 10 years of professional experience in journalism and communications. My expertise includes crafting news and enterprise stories, media criticism, writing blog posts and first-person essays, interviewing subjects of diverse backgrounds, editing for grammar and content, researching, fact-checking, and managing social media.
My experience includes:
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Analyzing, tracking, and debunking misinformation spreading online using public insight tools, expert interviews, document analysis, and image geolocation on the News Verification desk at The Associated Press
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Producing a monthly, data-driven newsletter at NewsGuard Technologies covering misinformation and disinformation, with four editions in the U.S. and Europe that had a combined distribution of approximately 4,500
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Working as a freelance writer and editor for companies such as Factstory, a subsidiary of the Agence France-Presse news agency; Smart Cities Dive; and local newspapers in Brooklyn and Queens
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Serving an integral role on a three-person team to overhaul the communications department at The Berkeley Carroll School, an independent, prekindergarten through 12th grade institution in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Additionally, I traveled solo in South America and Antarctica for five months, from September 2017-February 2018. During my time abroad, I wrote a travelogue series about my trip for CheapOair’s Miles Away blog and Freestyle Adventure Travel, developed an intermediate proficiency in Spanish and worked at a hostel in Cόrdoba, Argentina.