Mara Model is a journalist, editor, and researcher with over 5 years of experience in print and digital publishing. She holds a BA in Magazine Journalism from Temple University and has worked as a senior editor for Mod Media overseeing two magazines, as well as editorial internships at Rolling Stone South Africa, Weight Watchers, and Psychology Today where she conducted research, fact-checking, interviewing, and writing. Her skills include editing, research, photography, web design, and social media marketing.

1. Mara Model
journalist • editor • researcher
EDUCATION
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Annenberg School of
Communications, BA 2012
Magazine Journalism
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
English, 2008-2009
SKILLS
EDIT AND RESEARCH
AP & CHICAGO MANUAL STYLE
FACT-CHECKING, INTERVIEWING
TRANSCRIBING, IMAGE SOURCING
DATABASES: LEXISNEXIS, JSTOR
WEB/GRAPHIC DESIGN
SEO CONCEPTS, HTML & CSS
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
WORDPRESS, JOOMLA, DRUPAL
PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, INCOPY
DREAMWEAVER, ADOBE ACROBAT
CONSTANT CONTACT
OFFICE
WORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL
SOCIAL MEDIA
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
HOOTSUITE
LINKEDIN
INSTAGRAM
DIGITAL ANALYTICS
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
GOOGLE FOR NON-PROFITS
ADWORDS
FACEBOOK INSIGHTS
MULTIMEDIA
FINAL CUT PRO
AUDACITY
SOUNDSLIDE
VIMEO
EXPERIENCE
MOD MEDIA, LLC MONTCLAIR, NJ • AUGUST 2014 - CURRENT
SENIOR EDITOR
• Oversee all editorial departments for two magazines: HudsonMOD and Healthy Living
• Responsibilities include story development, writing, editing, fact-checking, handling
editorial calendars and flat-plans, and making sure workflow between editors is organized
• Assign articles to freelance writers and manage deadlines
• Conduct and transcribe in-person and phone interviews
• Assist graphic designers by inputting and copy-editing text into InDesign files
• Writer for print and website on entertainment, lifestyle, beauty, philanthropy and the cover
MOD MEDIA, LLC MONTCLAIR, NJ • MAY - AUGUST 2014
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Editor for HudsonMOD, a luxury NYC/NJ magazine and Healthy Living, a medical magazine
• Responsible for pitching for all sections, writing FOB and BOB, editing features, sourcing
images and working one-on-one with designers and PR representatives
• Wrote up to 4 articles per week for the web, posted on social media and created newsletters
ROLLING STONE (SA) CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA • SEPT - DEC 2013
DIGITAL EDITOR/CMS ADMINISTRATOR
• Managed South Africa’s top music magazine’s website
• Wrote and posted entertainment news daily to the web by using their CMS, Drupal
• Attended Rolling Stone-sponsored events and wrote concert reviews
• In charge of social media accounts using Hootsuite and applied various SEO strategies
WEIGHT WATCHERS NEW YORK, NY • MAY - AUGUST 2013
EDITORIAL INTERN
• Assisted food, fitness and health editors at this national weight loss magazine in the entire
process of fact-checking and sourcing images
• Used math to check recipes by using a specific criteria that calculates Weight Watchers points
• Pitched articles on nutrition, food, fitness, and women’s health; wrote two bylines
• Led product promotion meetings with PR firms
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY NEW YORK, NY • JAN - MAY 2013
EDITORIAL INTERN
• Full-time intern at national psychology magazine
• Found interesting studies using LexisNexis, JStor, ScienceDaily, PsychNET, Google Scholar
• Wrote book reviews and FOB articles on the latest studies
• Assisted the Associate Publisher as a researcher and photo shoot assistant for side projects
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
• BOTSWANA, ZIMBABWE, ZAMBIA
• CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
• TAGLIT MAYANOT BIRTHRIGHT, ISRAEL
• MARCH OF THE LIVING - POLAND & ISRAEL
• ROME, ITALY
• GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
• LONDON, ENGLAND
CONTACT INFO
EMAIL: M.MODEL08@GMAIL.COM
CELL: 973-919-4502
TWITTER: @MARS_BAARS
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WRITING SAMPLES & REFERENCES
AVAILABLE AT
WWW.MARAMODEL.COM