MAUREEN A. WALSH
email: mo.walsh@verizon.net
GENERAL
Professional writer with full-time and freelance experience in journalism, advertising, and public relations. Versatile experience, short learning curve, excellent at working with clients and in-house team members. Excellent editing and proofreading skills. Experience in publication design, formatting, and layout. Fiction writer with more than a dozen short stories published in national magazines and short story anthologies. Board member and Communications committee member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, New England chapters.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GATEHOUSE MEDIA NEW ENGLAND (Marshfield, MA); April 2002-Present
Correspondent writing weekly news and features for town newspapers. Regular coverage of American Cancer Society Relay For Life and other medical-related topics, school events, community policing programs, people profiles. Go-to writer for “miscellaneous,” including historic canoes, wounded geese, golf Teecils, colonial massacres, robotics, Marine weddings, pinball parlors, cupcake competitions, and labor guilds. Occasional news photo assignments.
FITZGERALD TOOLE & ALDEN (Providence, RI); July 1982-June 1984
Copywriter & Senior Copywriter. Team member devising campaigns and creating copy for print, radio, and TV advertising; brochures, point-of-purchase, newsletters, annual reports; and other collateral. Accounts included the Shipley Company (high-tech manufacturing chemical systems), Aquidneck Data Corporation, Citizens Bank, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.
BOGER MARTIN FAIRCHILD, INC. (Elkhart, IN); July 1981-June 1982
Copywriter/Client Contact. Primarily business-to-business advertising and public relations. Accounts included Miles Laboratories, mobile home/RV industry, band instrument industry.
MURRAY/HALL ADVERTISING, INC. (St. Louis, MO); 1979-1981 (as Maureen Flynn)
Copywriter/Client Contact. Team member devising multimedia creative campaigns for regional banks, shopping centers, retail shops, restaurants, deluxe real estate developer.
SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE (South Bend, IN); June-Oct. 1978 (as Maureen Flynn)
Staff Reporter & Photographer, Mishawka bureau. Full-time substitute for staff member on leave. Covered town government and community feature stories.
FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
RIVERTOWN TRADING COMPANY (St. Paul, MN); 1997, 1999
Contract assignments to write “witty observations, offbeat words to live by, wry twists on familiar expressions and other forms of pithy offbeat humor” for imprinted products sold through Signals and Wireless catalogues to PBS members, other upscale audiences.
FREELANCE COPYWRITER (Weymouth, MA); June 1984-Sept.1987
Weekly advertising copywriting work for FitzGerald & Company (formerly FitzGerald, Toole & Alden); Cranston, RI. PR and article ghost-writing for Image Positioning; Duxbury, MA. A Parent’s Handbook on Home Nursing Care for Paramedical Registry, Inc., specialists in pediatric home nursing care.
EDUCATION
University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN. B.A. in English, magna cum laude, 1978.
Editorial editor, campus editor, layout staff, reporter for The Observer, the independent student daily newspaper, circulation 10,000.
Internship, Ave Maria Press, 1978.
Summer Semester studying Anglo-Irish Drama at Dublin College in Dublin, Ireland, 1976.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mystery Writers of America/New England Chapter; Board Member 2011-2013;
Sisters in Crime/New England Chapter; Vice President 2014-Present; Board Member 2010-Present.
New England Crime Bake Conference; Publicity Committee 2008-Present; Conference Photographer 2007-Present; Creator Flashwords! annual flash fiction competition.
South Shore Writers Club; Coordinator 2008-2010, 2012-2014; Anthology Editor, Art Director (design, formatting, layout) 2010, 2012, 2014.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Immaculate Conception Parish; Newsletter Editor & Writer; 1991-Present. Cable TV camera operator, director, interviewer; 2001-Present.
Arnold-Chiari Family Network; Co-Founder/Coordinator of information and support network for families of children with hindbrain malformation; 1985-1995.
Swim With A Special Child; Volunteer & Head Instructor in one-on-one swim program for students with cognitive and developmental disabilities; 1985-Present.
REFERENCES
Greg Mathis, Editor-in-Chief, GateHouse New England: 781-582-1546; gmathis@wickedlocal.com
Saul A. Fern, CEO (retired), FitzGerald & Company: 908-276-7029; saulfern@msn.com
Barbara Ross, Publisher (former), Level Best Books: 617-969-7081; carito@aol.com
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