Jill Young Miller

Elevated WashU Olin Business School's brand through the strategic creation of engaging content across the Olin Blog, alumni magazine, and three targeted newsletters, collaborating closely with brand managers to ensure clarity and accuracy that showcased the school's research impact.

Work was accurate and clear, copy was consistently clean. Took a firm hand to produce content for the annual Olin Award (blog posts, video, and magazine infographics). Produced strong, 'on-brand' features for the alumni magazine every year.
I accepted the challenge of managing and producing the biweekly Olin Research Insights newsletter. I accepted the task of managing a content partnership with 'Global Voices' magazine that was instigated by our interim dean.

Joined the web renovation team as a content captain to facilitate the revision and creation of content for the new website.

Demonstrated a keen understanding of strategic messaging.
As Kurt Greenbaum says in his recommendation, "Jill is a collaborative colleague, always willing to lend her expertise and support, and she possesses a remarkable ability to manage multiple projects with grace and precision."

Spearheaded communications at the Center for Social Development at the Brown School of Social Work, enhancing strategic branding and developing impactful articles and other content for diverse audiences. Key audiences included researchers, policymakers, financial institutions, philanthropic foundations and the public.

Managed projects from multiple project leaders, with ongoing national and international work.

Produced press releases, fact sheets, brochures, newsletters, reports and other materials for internal and external communications.

Oversaw content strategies for numerous platforms, enhancing editorial quality through collaboration with writers, and innovative storytelling techniques.

Managed a statewide digital-first news operation with numerous print products, including the statewide Missouri Lawyers Weekly, special reports, and daily newspapers in St. Louis, St. Charles and Kansas City.

Championed top-notch journalistic practices at Missouri Lawyers Weekly, contributing to 119 prestigious awards since 2010, including the Missouri Press Association Gold Cup for best weekly newspaper, while elevating the publication’s influence on public policy, including a landmark 2013 ruling that opened lawyer disciplinary proceedings to the public.

Oversaw Missouri Lawyers Media's special reports/online projects. Involved daily in assigning/editing flagship Missouri Lawyers Weekly.

Created Writers Roundtable to improve staff reporting, writing and editing. In 2010, we won 56 state and national awards, including the Missouri Press Association's Gold Cup.

Promoted to managing editor.

Copy Editor (July 2007-October 2008)
• Edited major features projects and news investigations.
• Edited daily features, local news and national/international news under significant deadline pressure.
• Functioned as a readers’ advocate, focusing on content, relevance and clarity.
• Coached reporters and editors daily to improve stories for our readers.
• Selected to lead a group to research what readers want from watchdog journalism.

News Reporter (September 2001-July 2007)
• Broke numerous Page One stories.
• Wrote news, enterprise, profiles, investigations and news features.
• Spurred state Legislature to adopt a child endangerment law with felony penalties after my and a colleague’s investigative project about children of methamphetamine abusers.

Feature Writer (October 1999-September 2001)
• Conceived and produced engaging stories for the Living section front, Page One and Metro front, including profiles, human interest stories, news features, investigative projects.
• Selected to edit my peers for six months because management identified me as a leader.