Hi, my name is Sarah. Let me tell you a story.

I’m an award-winning New York City-based reporter, researcher and fact-checker with 5+ years of industry experience, but I’ve known I wanted to be a reporter since I was a teen.

Lacking a robust school newspaper program, I dove head-first into the professional news industry, cutting my teeth on writing and reporting with the likes of Teen Vogue, The Huffington Post and The New York Times—all before graduating high school.

When I finally left for undergrad, I attended the Hofstra University Honors College in Hempstead, New York, on a scholarship. I double majored in journalism and public policy served as an executive editor at three different campus news publications, one of which I founded: The Hofstra Clocktower.

Born from the pandemic-related campus (and student newsroom) closures, The Clocktower amassed a team of about a dozen student reporters who knew that scholastic journalism was more important at that time than perhaps ever before. Someone needed to report on rapidly-changing school policies, question official narratives with a trained skeptic’s eye and document this historic moment in our university (and our society’s) history. It was a daring experiment in student journalism and it paid off; our newsroom received numerous awards for our coverage and social media strategy, broke stories that triggered state-led investigations and became one of just six campus news outlets in the country to receive a highly sought-after media grant that year from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

My industry experience spans a variety of communications roles and environments, ranging from tight-knit newsrooms with shoestring budgets, to advocacy work in the nonprofit sector, to freelance gigs with leading national and international newsrooms. This includes a six-month stint at The Nation’s historic Victor S. Navasky Fact-Checking Program and internship; an intensive digital misinformation fact-checking role at First Draft; a senior investigative project reporter position at The Trace; and providing freelance reporting and/or research for The Associated Press, the BBC, VICE News, The Intercept and the Scientific American to name a just few. You can check out a more detailed version of my professional history, and selected clips, on my LinkedIn.

I've worked in writing, editing, proofreading, fact-checking, researching, multimedia, social media and photojournalism. I'm open to new work and new pitches—don't hesitate to send me a line!