Jill Erwin

Experience

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  Lexington Herald-Leader

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Sports clerk
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  Advocate-Messenger

  Aug 1999 - Oct 2004

  Sports Writer/Copy Editor
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  Richmond Times-Dispatch

  Oct 2004 - Aug 2008

  Writer/Copy Editor

  • Wrote about and handled communications related to events around the region and country.

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  ESPN.com

  Aug 2008 - Apr 2010

  Associate News Editor

  • Served as lead editor on breaking news stories, taking phone calls and emails from reporters in the field as well as adding applicable copy from other sources.• Developed relationships with writers and television personalities through editing copy, collaborating to finalize reports and ensure publication, resulting in improved cross-platform promotion.

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  Turner Broadcasting

  Apr 2010 - Aug 2012

  Interactive Producer

  • Led editorial team as point person for the official Nationwide Series website as part of a multimillion-dollar contract. • Managed copy flow, photos and story placement on home page during live events. Collaborated with web ops team to troubleshoot any content management problems.

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  Yahoo

  Aug 2012 - Jun 2017

  Editor

  • Worked on att.yahoo.com and communicated with editors and leadership to build a lasting relationship and share essential updates and status.• Was responsible for finding content of interest to our users and promoting it on our home page.• Worked with Yahoo's copy desk, editing articles and packages across the organization.• Led our editorial and product teams' exploration and development of verticals for our partners at AT&T. Worked with engineers, product and other editors to build out these pages, which allowed our partners to promote editorial content on their own. This was a major ask for AT&T and I was a leading part of delivering that.• Developed in-depth training documents and trained editors on new modules/pages.• Worked with AT&T leadership, Yahoo product team members and our engineers to launch original articles using Tumblr, fulfilling a major ask from AT&T. Show less

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  WebMD

  Aug 2017 - now

  Work as part of the Editorial Development team to facilitate cross-team communications and help escalate issues to improve workability for the editorial team in their daily workflow.• Streamlined process to keep up-to-date contracts for freelancers, who create the majority of content on WebMD.com.• Compiled in-depth training on the financial system for the editors, leading a session and escalating their concerns with the program as it exists.• Reconcile weekly content publication with our existing spreadsheets to ensure management would have a clear vision of the editorial team’s output at any time.• Build slideshows and quizzes, working in both WorkFront and Documentum D2. Show less

  • Senior Editorial Operations Manager

    Dec 2024 - now

  • Editorial Operations Manager

    Aug 2021 - Dec 2024

  • Associate Health Editor

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2021