CAITLIN KELLY
222 Martling Avenue 6G Tarrytown, NY 10591
caitlinvancouver@yahoo.com
caitlinkelly.com
914-332-6065
2006-2013
Author: “Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail”, a
business memoir, Portfolio. Featured in The New York
Times, The Financial Times, Entertainment Weekly, People,
USA Today and others. Chinese publication, July 2013.
Chosen by the Quality Paperback Club for Feb. 2012
selection. Nominated for the Hillman Prize for “journalism in
the service of the common good.”
Freelance for The New York Times, Yale Alumni Magazine,
Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire,Creative
Living and others. Produced five business stories in 10
months for the Sunday Times; three were third most-read
and most emailed of that day’s paper.
2012
Finalist, Alicia Patterson Fellowship (14 of 278 applicants)
2010-2013
Blogger, broadsideblog.wordpress.com; 7,200 followers
worldwide. Featured six times in Freshly Pressed, the best
daily 12 of 400,000 Wordpress blogs. Posts for Harvard
Business Review blog, cnn.com, reuters.com,
healthyimagination.com, creditcards.com.
2009-2010
Paid Blogger, True/Slant; 15,000+ uniques per month.
Regular contributor to The New York Times business
section, writing on small business and personal finance.
Edited 100+ business profiles for Inc.com’s Inc 5,000.
2005-2006
Daily News New York, NY.
Staff reporter/feature writer.
Broke many national stories, including:
 first to write about the new life, work and relationships of
former N.J. governor Jim McGreevey. Front page
 the 6,000 immigrant children detained annually, invisibly
and with no legal right to counsel, by DHS
 passenger deaths and disappearances aboard cruise ships
2002-2004
Author “Blown Away: American Women and Guns,”
Pocket Books, 2004. Owned by 576 libraries, including
Yale, Yale Law School, Harvard, Princeton.
Freelance: The New York Times, The New York Post,
Hartford Courant, Dallas Morning News, More, Chatelaine
(Canada’s largest women’s magazine, circ. 1 million.)
Freelance Writer on sports, business, real estate,
culture: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
Washington Post, Penthouse, Glamour, BusinessWeek,
Town & Country, Family Circle, Ottawa Citizen.
 reported/wrote first story on DNA testing of 9/11 victims,
sold to VSD, French newsweekly; London Sunday Telegraph
and New Zealand Herald
 wrote 2,500-word sports story, reported from Minneapolis,
in two days for Gruner & Jahr custom publishing
 monthly contributor to Ottawa Citizen Styles section
Internet: Contributing editor, quokka.com, sports website.
Magazine Editing
1996
Senior Editor
Worldbusiness, New York, NY
Planned, assigned, wrote and edited six 1,500-word `
features per issue for international bimonthly
business magazine. Found, assigned and directed the work
of freelancers worldwide. Conceived, planned, edited and
packaged a 13-page cover story on top 50
businesswomen worldwide.
1995
Editor in Chief
Forecast, New York, NY
Edited, assigned, and copy-edited 48-page national
business magazine focused on the use of demographic data
in business. Stories included marketing to gays; sports
clothing for women; IKEA’s arrival to the U.S.
1990-92
Senior Editor
World Press Review, NY
Edited 10,000+ words monthly from international press in
French and Spanish, cutting and condensing from original
stories. Planned covers and editorial packages.