WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2005 - present -- freelance writer for Entrepreneur magazine, BNET, Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, AOL, Nation's Restaurant News and others. Work for Entrepreneur has included cover features and regular monthly columns. Recent corporate accounts include Seattle insurance-industry consulting firm Milliman, Web-site work for Avvo.com, and due-diligence investigative research reports for New York firm Collected Intelligence.
• Recent cover articles include "Is there a Road to Justice?" on drunk driving, for Seattle Magazine (winner of a 2007 MADD Media award and 2007 first-place Society of Professional Journalists award), and "Building the 21st Century Leader" for Entrepreneur, both in Feb. 2007.
• Seattle Magazine May 2006 article on older foster children, "No Place Like Home," for Seattle Magazine also won a first-place award from SPJ.rnrnMarch 1999 - October 2005 -- Staff writer at the Puget Sound Business Journal, a 20,000-circulation weekly covering Seattle's business community. Primary beats included retail, restaurants, the nonprofit sector and philanthropy. Also covered higher education, beer & wine industry and arts and entertainment. Workload included filing four feature and breaking-news stories per week, plus additional short items for the paper's Web site, http://seattle.bizjournals.com. Duties included story-idea generation, execution of larger project stories, and editorial and writing responsibilities for several special reports, including Corporate Citizenship, a 50-page annual special section.
• Recipient of a 2005 Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers for "Generous compensation for execs draws scrutiny," PSBJ's first BIB win in 25 years. Revelations in the story led to a subsequent lawsuit filed against Providence Health Systems.
• Recipient of a 2001 American Eagle award for outstanding performance from parent company American City Business Journals, a 40-paper chain. Also recipient of six SPJ Awards from 2001-2005.
• Discussed her PSBJ articles on KPLU radio as a frequent guest of host Dave Meyer. See this link for examples:
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May 1994 - Jan. 1999 -- Senior editor, National Home Center News (now Home Channel News). HCN is a biweekly trade publication covering home improvement retailing. Beat included coverage of hardware stores, lumberyards and vendor companies in a 13-state territory. In the course of five years, remote coverage topped 100 trips, resulting in bylines filed from Anchorage to Atlanta.
• Winner of parent Lebhar-Friedman's Godfrey M. Lebhar Article of the Year award, 1997.rnrn1991 - 1992 -- Editor, Random Lengths, a biweekly community newspaper in San Pedro, Calif. As sole editor, made all story and photo assignments and served as the paper's only copy editor and proofreader. Applied for and received internship funding from the Puffin Foundation.
• In 1992, received a grant from the Institute for Alternative Journalism to write a series of five media criticism articles, one of which is included in the IAJ's book, Inside the L.A. Riots.rnrn1990 - 1993 -- Radio producer, writer and on-air personality at KPFK Los Angeles 90.7 FM. Wrote and produced field reports for the Pacifica Radio station's evening news broadcast, and numerous hour-long live and prerecorded programs. Seasoned tape editor, writer, in-studio and field producer.rnrn1989 - present -- Freelance articles for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, In These Times, Daily Variety, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, Today's Careers, Utne Reader, Nation's Restaurant News, L.A. Business Journal, L.A. Reader, National Real Estate Investor, Washington CEO, and others.
EDUCATION/PERSONAL
Attended University of California at Santa Barbara. Subsequently studied journalism and marketing through UCLA Extension. A California native who has lived on Bainbridge Island, Wash. for 12 years, Tice is married 25 years to Lawrence Tice and is the mother of Evan, 17, Eylian 8, and Ariella, 7.
REFERENCES
Peggy Bennett, former Entrepreneur and current Allbusiness.com editor
prbennett5@gmail.com
Rami Grunbaum, deputy business editor, Seattle Times
(206) 464-8541 rgrunbaum@seattletimes.com
Corporate writing:
Joy Cordell/former Milliman editor
Contact info available on request