Laura Beatty

• Developed signature daily podcast, The Recount Daily Pod, for a cutting-edge new media company. Booked world-renowned guests in politics, culture, business and technology and shaped narratives. Curated and edited news digest to provide context and relevance. • Recruited and nurtured junior production team to create a smart, editorially compelling show with a loyal audience. Established new workflows and set technical standards.

• Researched, developed and curated compelling, on-site programs featuring industry leaders from across the media spectrum for an exclusive audience of top-tier executives. • Cultivated relationships with C-suite executives, award-winning journalists and elite influencers working in the advertising, marketing, entertainment, news, finance, technology, gaming and sports verticals. • Served as chief liaison with Creative, Production and Marketing teams to ensure smooth event execution and integrity of all communications.

• Executive produce all editorial content, including video, audio and text, including a weekly NPR broadcast. Launched and oversee production of a new video series featuring thought leaders such as Nicholas Kristof and Reid Hoffman. Recruit all crew and manage all project budgets and schedules. • Lead the marketing, media and communications team in growing our audience, both in-person and online. Oversee all engagement campaigns, via our website, social media, email and paid advertising. • Synthesize web analytics to develop meaningful KPIs that measure performance and drive optimization. Oversee strategic initiatives to boost conversion rates and amplify the brand.

• Strategic lead for a small creative team of producers and editors tasked with the development of compelling web-based programming, encompassing a wide-range of content and show formats – including documentary, current-affairs talk shows and short arts and entertainment packages. • Conceptualize, pilot, and produce programming in collaboration with both internal and external editorial and commercial clients. Ensure editorial consistency and journalistic integrity in all productions. • Recruit and manage a global team of freelance videographers, audio engineers, technical directors and other crew to run complex productions both in the field and in studios around the world. Source and develop talent.

• Developed and produced long-form documentaries for HDNet’s World Report, the network’s signature news program. With a focus on investigative reporting, stories cover a range of political and cultural topics, including: Native Americans vs. US government, the spread of Islamic extremism in Morocco, and teenage castaways from a breakaway Mormon sect that practices polygamy. • Created and managed complex budgets encompassing multiple teams traveling to and within multiple states and countries. Recruited and managed talent and crew. • Other responsibilities included: producing talent, script-writing, designing and overseeing the creation of special graphics, commissioning music and supervising general post-production.

• Pitched and produced both short daily news segments as well as long-form documentary programming for an international news network with a daily reach of up to 100 million viewers. • Identified and booked guests for live programming in response to international developments of significant weight – such as military offensives in Darfur, the twitter revolution during the 2009 Iranian election, and the debate over America’s use of water-boarding at Guantanamo Bay. • Other responsibilities included: researching stories, securing appropriate guests/characters, conducting interviews, directing shoots and overseeing edits.

Development, production, shooting and editing of 4-7 minute cinema vérité content for Everywoman, a program dedicated to covering stories about, and for, women. Commissioned pieces covered a diverse range of topics, from the abortion debate to the Islamic chaplaincy in the U.S. Army.

Editor/Producer for Reuters Consumer TV division. Responsibilities included: editing under tight deadlines in a fast-paced news environment, directing studio shoots, script writing and field production.