Hi there. I'm a journalist, writer and editor based in Durham, North Carolina. Here's what I do. Interested or have questions? Get in touch: swade316@gmail.com.

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Journalism

I like to find and report stories that serve the public interest and make complicated subjects easy and enjoyable to read about. While I'm drawn to a wide range of topics, I gravitate toward:

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• Investigations and features

• Community engagement: stories driven by and produced for local audiences

• The environment beat, especially environmental justice, environmental health, climate resilience, regulatory agencies and wildlife research and management

• Other beats: addiction, pain science and its growing influence on the treatment of injuries and chronic pain, labor, courts, mental health

• Services I offer: Reporting and stringing, research, editing, copy editing, fact-checking

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Content Services

I also produce engaging content for businesses, nonprofits, universities and agencies, as long as their work falls outside the beats I cover as a reporter. I'm particularly interested in producing content related to the arts (all of them!), education and personal finance. I can do:

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• Articles and blog posts

• Editing, copy editing and fact-checking

• Research

• Copy for newsletters, social media and infographics

• Profiles, bios and website content

• Ghostwriting 

• Case studies

• Video and audio scripts

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If you'd like to see samples of my content work, email me.

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My background

I spent the first leg of my storytelling career writing and editing for World Wildlife, the quarterly magazine of World Wildlife Fund, before making the leap to journalism. Before going freelance, I covered Northeast Tennessee for the Bristol Herald Courier.

 

In my free time, I'm usually reading, hiking, watching SNL skits (the quality ones) or enjoying the good of goods: time with family and friends.

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Click here to see my resume.