This past weekend, my studio and our collaborators at WTTW were awarded a Chicago/Midwest 2022-2023 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for Informational/Instructional – Short and Long Form Content…so that’s officially Emmy Award Winning Writer/Producer Natalie to you, sir. Our friends at WTTW took home two Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & […]
Read moreThe 2022 Peter Lisagor Awards ceremony was this past weekend and I’m stoked to count myself among the winners alongside my colleagues at The Banditry Co. and our collaborators at WTTW. Our friends at WTTW took home nine Peter Lisagor Awards this year in recognition for their exemplary journalism. Among them was the award for […]
Read moreI couldn’t possibly say no to an interview with fellow copywriter, Ben Owens. His blog series, Windy City Writes, features the musings of Chicago copywriters and is always a delightful read. Having had a few friends featured in the past, I jumped at the opportunity to provide Ben with the smart and sassy tidbits he […]
Read more1. You copy & pasted the top comments from a Reddit thread. 2. You arbitrarily arranged a series of motivational quotes and/or bible verses over various stock photos in Microsoft Paint…or maybe a pirated copy of Photoshop. 3. Your sensationalist headline is longer than your body copy. 4. You screen cap’d a bunch of tweets. […]
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