EDUCATION
Rutgers University , New Brunswick, N.J.
B.A. Journalism (Minor: Japanese)
University of Texas, Austin Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
Investigative Reporting in the Digital Age MOOC
WORK EXPERIENCE, FREELANCE
(2001 – Present)
--Managing Editor, BK Reader
Edit feature stories, rewrite press releases, write aggregates for the hyper local news site.
--Reporter for various newspapers, magazines and other publications, with emphasis on New York City news, real estate, travel, food, business and finance. Currently a features reporter for the Metropolitan section of the New York Times.
--Adjunct Lecturer at the Craig Newmark Graduate School Of Journalism at CUNY. Instructor for the "Craft of Journalism" a required course on the basics of reporting and writing.
--Translator for Japanese TV shows, news, business and financial reports, animation, films, scripts, books, comic books, government papers and letters, television guides, medical web sites, pharmaceutical and clinical trial documents, reference books, consumer product reports, academia newsletters and advertisements.
--Associate Producer for nationally syndicated, 30-minute business TV show "First Business." Booked guests, wrote scripts, conducted research and interviews. Show was taped from the studios inside the New York Stock Exchange.
--Researcher for Richard Bernstein, author and former New York Times reporter, for his book Out of the Blue; Michael Carroll, for his book Lab 257; Milky Way Productions (Japanese TV production company).
--Host for a cable radio talk show in Tokyo, Japan for Air FM, Also have done voice-overs in English and Japanese for Japanese radio stations and corporate marketing videos.
WORK EXPERIENCE, FULL TIME
Correspondent, TheStreet.com, Tokyo
Correspondent, Bridge News, Tokyo
Reporter, Thomson Municipal News, NYC
Reporting Assistant, Dow Jones News Service, NYC
Researcher, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei News), NYC