Drew Saunders
drewsaunders.com
NLGJA Member
Email: ats2173@columbia.edu – Cell (U.S. Number): 734.355.5158
I am a freelance environmental and business journalist currently seeking full time employment.
Experience
July 2023 to present
Freelance journalist, Between The Lines.
I freelance for Between the Lines, Metro Detroit’s LGBT weekly tabloid newspaper.
January 2023 to present
Freelance journalist, Adam street publishing.
Adam Street Publishing owns both Current magazine and the Toledo City Paper. I work for both on a freelance basis.
October 2022 to present
Freelance magazine journalist, Hour Detroit.
I cover business, social, and environmental stories for Metro Detroit’s monthly features magazine as a freelancer.
April 2022 to August 2022
Reporter, The Monroe News. Monroe, Michigan.
I was initially hired as a court reporter for the Monroe News, but I also covered general assignment topics. Monroe is a city about halfway between Detroit and Toledo. I think my most substantial piece was an environmental story involving a fuel spill and a recall election petition.
November 2020 to April 2022
Reporter, The Sun Times News. Washtenaw County, Michigan.
I was a beat reporter for a weekly newspaper covering the rural towns west of Ann Arbor, Michigan. I covered city hall, the business community, and the school board during the height of the pandemic and the beginnings of the culture wars.
May 2017 – November 2020
Freelance Journalist, the Oakland County Times
I worked as a freelance journalist for the Oakland County Times, a news site covering a suburban county northwest of Detroit.
Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Master of Science in Journalism
Graduated may 2019
I focused on international and investigative reporting at Columbia. While there I was immersed in data journalism, international journalism, investigative techniques, and working in teams to create well researched stories.
Eastern Michigan University Graduate School of Journalism
Graduated august 2016
I worked mainly in the news section at my student newspaper, the Eastern Echo. I gained a reputation there for covering anything and everything, allowing me to get experience in a little bit of everything.
References
Kathryn Walsh, Editor of Hour Detroit. kwalsh@hour-media.com Phone: 248.691.1800
2. Mary Schoonmaker. Adjunct journalism professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and former associate editor at the Columbia Journalism Review. Mes2261@columbia.edu. Cell: 201.233.4545
3. Howard French. Professor of Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Hf2205@columbia.edu. 212.854.0163