Director of audience engagement at The Baltimore Sun
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Director of audience engagement at The Baltimore Sun
- Past
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- Breaking news director / multimedia editor at The Baltimore Sun
- Night news editor at The Baltimore Sun
- News copy editor/slot at The Baltimore Sun
- News copy editor/slot at The Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Sports desk intern at The Virginian-Pilot
- Editor in chief at The Gamecock student newspaper
- Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern at The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Education
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- University of South Carolina-Columbia
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Mary Hartney’s Summary
Mary Hartney’s Specialties:
Social media, breaking news, blogging and microblogging, video and audio production, photography, editing.
Mary Hartney’s Experience
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Director of audience engagement
The Baltimore Sun
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
* Established Baltimore Sun's social media voice by initiating and leading audience outreach
* Set vision and strategy for team of six community coordinators, positions new to newspapers
* Nurtured social media communities of more than 6,000 members, achieving key objective of increasing traffic to Web site
* Facilitated direct connections between readers and journalists through increased live coverage, live chats and community meetups -
Breaking news director / multimedia editor
The Baltimore Sun
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
August 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 9 months)
* Developed breaking news channel from first stages to final product, a new venture into aggregated content involving TV and radio partnerships
* Increased by 300% breaking-news articles posted online, building more competitive Web site
* Managed more than 40 blogs and dozens of authors, monitoring growing traffic and solving technical issues
* Streamlined and improved interdepartmental communication, increasing visibility of key Web product in print newsroom -
Night news editor
The Baltimore Sun
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
July 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 2 months)
* Directed copy, design and news departments nightly and managed coverage of breaking news as ranking editor at night and on weekends
* Determined front-page presentation and held sole responsibility for accuracy
* Achieved 93% on-time deadlines by managing pageflow and production and acting as liaison between newsroom and printing plant
* Created production efficiencies by organizing rollout of product that streamlined printing process, training key staff in technical aspects -
News copy editor/slot
The Baltimore Sun
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
August 2005 — July 2006 (1 year )
* Worked as supervising editor for suburban sections and first-read editor for world, national and local news articles
* Served on Internet task force that created process linking print and Web newsrooms, resulting in increased traffic to Web site
* Presented in-house training session on headline writing and served as judge on headline awards -
News copy editor/slot
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
December 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 9 months)
* Won first-place award from Virginia Press Association by working as sole editor on series marking anniversary of Iraq war
* Consistently earned monthly merit awards for headline writing
* Served on newsroom-wide redesign, diversity and ethics committees, including young-readers initiative
* Functioned as mentor for interns and coordinated local Association of Young Journalists meetings and conferences
* Designed and led forum that determined format and style to ensure newspaper would read as a cohesive product -
Sports desk intern
The Virginian-Pilot
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
June 2003 — December 2003 (7 months)
* Copy edited staff and wire articles and columns nightly
* Scanned wires to choose and compile items for briefs column and league roundups
* Helped edit college football and NFL preview sections
* Designed inside pages. -
Editor in chief
The Gamecock student newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year )
* Led organization to 2002 "best college newspaper" award from South Carolina Press Association
* Managed more than 80 staff members and coordinated budget
* Researched and restructured editorial board processes to match larger newspapers' procedures
* Previously served as university news editor and reporter -
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)
* Copy edited on metro desk as paper’s first Dow Jones intern
* Attended two-week Dow Jones editing seminar at the University of North Carolina and participated in sessions on law, ethics and editing
Mary Hartney’s Education
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University of South Carolina-Columbia
B.A. , Print journalism, Spanish , 1999 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa, The Gamecock student newspaper, Garnet & Black student magazine, The Carolina Reporter newspaper, teaching assistant for copy-editing course, co-founder and coach of field hockey team, university ambassador
Additional Information
Mary Hartney’s Websites:
Mary Hartney’s Groups:
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Social Media Today -
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University of South Carolina Alumni Network -
Smalltimore - Connecting the Dots in Baltimore -
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Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Alumni -
The Baltimore Sun -
TEDx Mid Atlantic
Mary Hartney’s Honors:
*Outstanding young alumna award, University of South Carolina, 2009
*Virginia Press Association, first place for special projects
*Phi Beta Kappa and honors graduate, University of South Carolina
* University's outstanding senior award, University of South Carolina
* J. Rion McKissick Award, University of South Carolina
