Joel Keller Freelance Writer

Writing Resume

Various clients -- Freelance Writer

1/2003 to Present

Clients:

• The New York Times - Contributed humor essays and articles about local restaurants for the newspaper's New Jersey section.  Also wrote news articles, celebrity profiles, and travel articles for Escapes section.
• New Jersey Monthly - From 2006 to 2009, contributed numerous articles to magazine, and participated in theme issues like the Music Issue and Cheap Eats.
• Erickson Tribune ­­- From 2007 to 2009, Contributed approximately five articles per month to company's nationally-distributed newsletter; tasks include reporting, photography, and sourcing art.
• Also contributed essays, profiles, and interviews to The North Jersey Media Group, The Daily Beast, Mediabistro.com, Jane, Radar, Cinematical, Parade.com, Inc. Technology, Salon.com, The Huffington Post and The Onion A.V. Club.
• Media appearances: TV Guide Network, BBC World Service Radio, "The Dolans" nationally-syndicated radio show, Attack of the Show on G4, MSNBC, WTAM-AM in Cleveland,  KSRO in Santa Rosa, CA, BlogTalkRadio, and CAPA Presse TV in France.

AOL
New York, NY

11/2005 to 5/2011

Senior Writer / Editor, TV Squad (4/10 to 5/11)
Editor-in-Chief, TV Squad (10/08 - 4/10)
Assistant Editor, TV Squad  (9/06 - 9/08)

• As editor of TV Squad, managed a team of 19 writers spread across the country. Successfully integrated a significant number of new writers along with inherited staff.
• During my tenure as Editor-in-Chief, the site averaged 6.8 million page views and 1.8 million unique visitors per month. Starting with my period as assistant editor, the page views and unique visitors more than doubled.
• Worked with budget set by AOL; stayed at or under budget every month, keeping up the high editorial standards set by my predecessors.
• Set editorial direction, including picking shows to review and helping writers create and craft weekly columns. With assistant editor, copy-edited and scheduled posts on a 24x7 basis.
• Played a major role in the merger of TV Squad with AOL's Inside TV blog in 2010, including managing personnel, coordinating content like recaps, news, and interviews, and advising on editorial tone. After merger, became a senior writer/editor/critic for the newly-formed team.
• Contributed 1-3 blog posts per day, including breaking news stories, reviews, recaps and interviews; also hosted and produced The TV Squad Podcast, a wide-open discussion of the current TV landscape that included interviews with celebrity guests.
• Reported from events such as the network upfronts and the TCA press tour.

IBM Corporation
Various sites, NJ
IT Specialist

11/1997 to 4/2006

• General system administration tasks performed for servers serving 2000 people at pharmaceutical research site in Bridgewater, NJ.
• Worked on team that built out IBM’s first collocation site, in Newark, NJ.

ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), Television Critics Association (TCA)

EDUCATION

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, New Jersey
Bachelor of Engineering, Major: Computer Engineering