Diana D.
Chapel Hill, NC, USA16 reviews
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Reporter / Journalist
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About Diana
After 20 years in newsrooms along the East Coast—as a reporter, story editor, copy editor, designer, and homepage editor—Diana D'Abruzzo decided in September 2018 to focus full time on freelance work. She primarily copy edits and writes but is also a soup-to-nuts journalist with production experience who can take the whole project off your hands and write, design, and edit your organization’s published materials.
Top Projects
Arnold Ventures -- Shining a Light Inside Prisons
- Reporter / Journalist
For this three-part series on prison reform, I interviewed a half dozen sources, including formerly incarcerated people, a corrections union leader, and a state corrections secretary. I selected photos for the three parts, wrote captions, and designed the package.
POLITICO -- Early front-runners who fizzled: 8 presidential candidates who couldn't hold on
- Reporter / Journalist
A year before the 2016 election, as stories and analyses piled up about who would win, I was curious if early front-runners in past presidential races had ultimately succeeded. I was homepage editor for POLITICO at the time, but when I had an idea for something catchy, I went for it. This photo essay was just one example of a fun story told in an alternative way.
Arnold Ventures -- ‘They Were Selling Charitable Tax Deductions for Profit’
- Reporter / Journalist
The assignment: to write about how a tax deduction for conservation easements was being abused. Pretty wonky stuff. This is an example of how I am able to take a complicated subject and tell a story for the average reader.
Prison Violence Story
- Reporter / Journalist
Produced for Arnold Ventures on Storyhunter
August 2020
Updates to JAN Story/COVID Story
- Reporter / Journalist
Produced for Arnold Ventures on Storyhunter
April 2020
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