Caitlin Coakley Beckner is an experienced journalist and media relations professional seeking new opportunities in public relations and creative marketing. Her background includes three years in journalism, four years as a marketing communications consultant, and many years in-between as a freelancer for web sites, magazines, marketing firms, and more. Her specialty is media relations, having worked in newsrooms herself. She has firsthand experience in the sorts of communications campaigns that businesses, trade associations and advocacy organizations must develop to make their case before lawmakers, the media, and the public. Her news reports, many of which have won awards, have ranged from hard news, to features, to profiles, to Q&As, to fact checks, and everything in-between – the sorts of materials that would translate well for website and newsletter content. She regularly meets with reporters to pitch stories about her clients and has had broad success in increasing companies' media presence. In addition, Caitlin has produced content for a broad range of marketing materials. She has written legal practice profiles, professional website biographies, press releases, internal communications, shareholder presentations, email marketing copy, social media copy, blog posts and much more. She regularly provides editing and proofreading assistance to her clients, checking for style consistency, grammatical errors, factual accuracy, and brand voice. The experience has allowed her to become adept at writing within various different styles and to become proficient with learning new subjects quickly and thoroughly in order to make descriptive content accessible to a layperson.