Biography/Awards

Donna scene 1Editor-in-Chief, Cape Cod Magazine
Copy Editor, eWeek Magazine, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Marketing Communications Specialist, Infinium Software
Staff Reporter, Copy Editor, the Cape Cod Times
Staff Reporter, Copy Editor, the Enterprise of Brockton
Staff Writer, Copy Editor, Foster’s Daily Democrat
Staff Reporter, the Monadnock Ledger
Correspondent, the Patriot Ledger
Intern, Boston Magazine

MA, Professional Writing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
BS, Mass Communication/Print Journalism, Emerson College

Awards:

  • American Cancer Society’s Sword of Hope Award for story on breast cancer survivors
  • New England Press Association, second place, reporting on high school dropouts
  • Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Shared with newspaper colleagues on group projects:

  • New England Press Association, first place, for editorial supplement “Faces: A Portrait of the Homeless on Cape Cod”
  • Ottaway Newspapers Community Services Award, first place, and New England Newspaper Association’s “Publick Occurrences” Award for seven-day series “Shattered Lives: The Crisis of Domestic Violence”
  • National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Benjamin E. Fine Award and New England Press Association, second place, for editorial supplement “Pressure Points: Coming of Age in the ’90s”
  • New England Associated Press News Executives Association, first place, spot news, for coverage of President Clinton’s first Martha’s Vineyard vacation