About Me
I am a coverage editor on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Team Now. We’re a general assignment team that covers whatever Philadelphians are talking about today: Breaking news, big events, trending talkers, and anything else. I also coordinate coverage of significant news events with teams across the newsroom. I’ve played a leading role in the Inquirer’s work on stories from the Super Bowl to elections to snowstorms, with a focus on our live-updating coverage and ensuring that all teams — reporters, editors, producers, audience — are on the same page.
I also work on newsroom tools, including significant configuration, bug-reporting, training, and documentation work during our transition to the Arc Publishing suite of products.
Before that, I was a writer and producer on the Real Time News Desk, where I worked on breaking news stories across the Philadelphia region, and occasional enterprise projects .
Until December 2012, I was the digital news editor for The Washington Examiner, where I oversaw our homepage, optimized article pages with multimedia and related content, and worked on other digital products, including newsletters, mobile applications and social media. Much of my work focused on local news.
I joined the Examiner in May 2010 as a crime and courts reporter. I spent two years reporting on murder, muggings and other mayhem around the region, mostly covering the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of D.C. I reported on all aspects of the criminal-justice system, including court hearings and filings, statistics, breaking news, trends and enterprise pieces.
I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2010. At Penn, officially, I majored in history, but my real course of study was in the newsroom of The Daily Pennsylvanian. I’ve been working for newspapers and news websites since high school through my local newspaper’s teen page and sports department.
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E-mail: emily@emilybabay.com
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