Newsletter resume

As an employee and now a freelance writer, Angie Roberts has launched, redesigned, written and/or edited more than a dozen different newsletters:

Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis, Indiana
(2008-present)
Work with Clarian Marketing on bimonthly referral newsletter, which is aimed at boosting referrals from pediatricians and family doctors from around the state. Assist in determining editorial content, write features, assign and edit other submissions, and coordinate with designer on production.

Marketing Innovations, Prospect, Kentucky
(2002-2008)
Collaborate with marketing consultant on quarterly consumer health newsletter, which is customized for client physicians and hospitals. Newsletter is targeted to women as primary health care decision makers in families and features health tips and information. Assist in determining editorial content, provide supplemental research, and write and edit copy.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
(2002-present)
Work with the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management on semi-annual, 16-page newsletter aimed at alumni and faculty. Assist in determining editorial content, edit faculty-submitted articles, write features, and lay out pages. Also provide editing, proofreading and layout services for annual newsletter of the Department of Foods and Nutrition.

Abilities Services, Crawfordsville, Indiana
(2001) Designed and launched newsletter for organization that provides social, employment and other services to persons with developmental and physical disabilities. Newsletter supplements direct sales and other marketing activities designed to generate industrial contracts and service referrals.

Streetmail, North Adams, Massachusetts
(2000-2001) Served as local correspondent for national company producing online newsletters around the country. Researched and wrote weekly newsletter covering Montgomery and Tippecanoe county (Indiana) issues and events. Fielded questions and comments from online readers and reported on their responses in each issue.

Cummins Mental Health Center, Danville, Indiana
(1996-97) As part of marketing campaign aimed at the working-well population, designed and launched community newsletter to help dispel myths that behavioral health services were only suitable for seriously mentally ill people. Also developed referral newsletter to help generate more referrals from physicians and other professionals that did not traditionally refer to the center. Both newsletters covered mental health issues, promoted the professionalism of clinical staff and highlighted new services.

St. Clare Medical Center, Crawfordsville, Indiana
(1995-96) Created monthly referral newsletter to promote geriatric mental health services. Researched, wrote, edited and produced each issue, focusing on a single mental health topic for each. Worked closely with social services and nursing staff to determine educational needs of referral sources, with the intent of garnering more appropriate referrals to unit and improving outcomes after patients were discharged.

Reid Hospital & Health Care Services, Richmond, Indiana
(1990-95) Researched, wrote, edited and produced two physician newsletters: a monthly aimed at medical staff, and a bimonthly aimed at all potential referring physicians in the service area. During corporate identity campaign, proposed and implemented a plan to condense the two publications into a single monthly issue, with a design that met new graphics standards and a focus that more closely aligned with hospital marketing objectives. Each issue featured articles on new hospital services, continuing education opportunities and medical staff accomplishments.

Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana
(1988-90) Researched, wrote, edited and produced employee newsletter that was issued every other week to staff at 80+ sites. During transition to in-house production, also redesigned newsletter to enhance readability and to soften the top-down communication style that had affected the newsletter's readership. The newly designed newsletter focused on staff and school accomplishments, giving all employees a greater opportunity for recognition.

Single issues:
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (copywriting only)
Hendricks Community Hospital, Danville, Indiana
Indiana Chapter, National School Public Relations Association
Indiana Council on Adolescent Pregnancy, Indianapolis
Indiana Society for Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing, Indianapolis
Wabash College Campaign for Leadership, Crawfordsville, Indiana (copywriting only)

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