Lindsey Kratochwill

727-409-0352 | LindseyKrat@gmail.com | LindseyKratochwill.com | @LindseyKrat 420 E 21st Street #404 Brooklyn, NY 11226

Experience
Popular Science Magazine | editorial assistant
Manage the editor-in-chiefs schedule, manage freelancer invoices and contracts, log issue expenditures, organize video shoots, pitch and write print and web stories, edit the FEED sectionw and back page of the magazine, produce text for tablet app. (2013)

Education
Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University Concentration in Magazine Journalism Minors in Spanish and Environmental Policy Graduated: June 2012

Fast Company Magazine | editorial intern, freelance writer

Pitched and wrote tech, health, business and science stories for print front of book sections, crafted sidebars and researched for feature stories, factchecked and produced print stories for the website, assisted in covering TED. (2012-2013)

Work Appears In:

Popular Science Fast Company ScientificAmerican.com In These Times OrionMagazine.org Newcity FoodSafetyNews.com MidwestEnergyNews.com Immigrantconnect.org Draugas Newspaper WBEZ.org 91.5 FM WMNF.org 88.5 FM North by Northwestern

In These Times Magazine | editorial intern

Wrote weekly blog posts about politics, policy and activism, contributed articles for print, fact-checked, copy edited and aided in fundraising research at the nonprofit monthly magazine. (2012)

Food Safety News | editorial intern

Pitched and wrote feature stories about food policy and foodborne illness for the online news website. (2011)

Newcity Magazine | editorial intern, freelance writer

Pitched and wrote for the FOB and music section, participated in collaborative group projects and created multimedia content for the alternative weekly publication. Wrote a feature cover story about the shapenote-singing community in Chicago. (2010)

WMNF 88.5 FM | news reporter

Recorded and edited interviews from the field, covering public hearings to protests. Wrote scripts and tracked stories for the nightly news show. Produced a 30-minute documentary that ran serially. (2009)

Skills
Web Design | HTML, CSS, JavaScript Print Design | Adobe InDesign Audio Editing | Adobe Audition, Audacity,
Hindenburg Video Editing | Final Cut Express, Adobe Pemiere Other skills | Copy editing, Fact-checking, AP Style, Spanish languge (proficient)

Collabolab | research assistant

Conducted an independent research project, analyzing how companies can successfully communicate with consumers and fans on Facebook. (2010)

Medill-Northwestern Journalism Inst. | Instructor

Taught audio, visual and print journalism to 86 high school journalists in a summer program on Northwesterns campus.