Pietro Lombardi Multimedia journalist

Professional Experience lombardipietro.com

October 2016 - Present pietro.lombardi@fulbrightmail.org
The Wall Street Journal, Reporter - Intern
As a Rome-based general assignment reporter, I have written a dozen features and
covered Italys political crisis, the terror attack in Berlin, immigration and social issues

April 2016 - October 2016 Skills

Thomson Reuters Foundation, Data Journalist
Lead reporter and data journalist on a project on social enterprises worldwide; I led a Language
team of up to four interns; helped draft the survey; analyzed the data; wrote the main Fluent in Italian, English
story and fact-checked all the stories and Spanish

January - March 2016 Computer

CNN International, Digital producer - Intern
Suite Office: Word, Power
I wrote about 30 stories, most of which were published on the homepage, for several Point, Excel
desks; wrote headlines; managed CNN.coms regional pages (Europe, Africa, Asia, SQL
Americas, Middle East); researched and edited pictures; built galleries and stories in Adobe Creative Suite
the CMS; used analytics tools to monitor and increase traffic and engagement Adobe Premier

August 2014 - September 2015

Audacity
The Washington Post, Investigative Intern
CMS management
I worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sullivan and other members of the Hootsuite
investigative unit Basic knowledge of GIS
Co-authored the front-page investigation Probable Cause, which looked at how police
(geographic information
officers in Washington, D.C. secure and execute residential search warrants. It was one systems), HTML and CSS
of the best criminal justice stories in 2016, according to nonprofit news organization Social media management

The Marshall Project, which focuses on the U.S. criminal justice system SurveyGizmo
Contributed to two front-page investigations: Broken by the Bubble, part of a series

looking at the plight of the black middle class; Shaken Science A Disputed Diagnosis
Qualtrics
Imprisons Parents, which explains how murder cases were built on a disputed diagnosis Salesforce
I also published a story as a freelancer, A Pie in the Face for McDonalds, and helped

The Post in its coverage of the Vatican Research

Investigative Reporting Workshop, Graduate Fellow Accurint
Author of New Journalism Ecosystem Thrives Worldwide, a project to survey and LexisNexis
study nonprofit newsrooms around the world Pacer
Contributed to Assault on Justice, a five-month investigation that showed how often the

charge of assaulting a police officer was used in the District of Columbia, questioning its
Education
potential for overuse particularly with minority men. For this story, my colleagues and I
researched more than 2,000 cases of assaulting a police officer charges from January 2012 August 2015
through December 2014, analyzed them and built a database. Over the past year, the report
M.A.
has won several national awards, including an AP award for Outstanding Enterprise Re-
Journalism and Public
porting and the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.
Affairs
The investigation prompted a reform, which narrowed the charge in DC
Researcher for various senior editors; co-managed social media; wrote for the Workshops blog
American University,
Washington, D.C.
Pietro Lombardi Multimedia journalist

Multimedia experience Education

April - August 2011 July 2011
Corriere della Sera, Journalist Masters degree
Journalist on the international desk; proofreader and subeditor; wrote articles, edited Multimedia editing and
photos and created graphics; from the newsroom, wrote about the war in Libya, the new information professions
Arab Spring, the earthquake in Japan, Osama bin Ladens death and the British Riots University La Sapienza,
Leading Italian newspaper based in Milan, Italy Rome, Italy
Highest honors
October 2011 - June 2014
In this period, I had several professional and formative experiences. Among them: July 2008
Lived for six months in the U.K. to learn English Bachelors degree
Wrote and produced stories for several Italian outlets, such as Corriere del Mezzogiorno Communication
Worked as a communications specialist for institutions, businesses and events, such as University Suor Orsola
the Un-Habitat World Urban Forum Benincasa, Naples, Italy
Volunteer for Radio Siani (an anti-Mafia radio), as a radio author, reporter and speaker. Highest honors
I generated ideas for stories; prepared and presented material on air for pre-recorded
and live pieces; identified guests and conducted both live and recorded interviews Honors & Scholarships
June 2007 - November 2009
2014: Fulbright scholarship
Cronache di Napoli (local newspaper with circulation of 12,000), Journalist Naples, Italy.
2013: Multimedia Summer
I wrote more than 500 articles about politics, events, crime and everyday life Camp Scholarship
2010: Erasmus grant at
Organizations University of Malaga, Spain
2009: International Prize
IRE, Investigative Reporters and Editors, since June 2015; Ordine dei Giornalisti, the of Journalism Maria Grazia
Italian association of journalists, since November 2009 Cutuli, honorable mention