Sara Peters, 2011, Politics

Sara Peters ’11

I worked at the New York Times for a total of 8 weeks–from the second week of June until the last week of July.  Throughout the entire summer, I was given tasks to be completed by my departure date.  I fixed grammatical errors in the New York Times’ Green Inc. blog wordpress, and I compiled a sixty page data sheet of similar websites/ blogs to the Green Inc. blog.  Each work day, I updated facebook and twitter news standings for followers of energy and environment information of the New York Times.  Every day, I completed a comprehensive google news search for the business editors of the energy and environment section of the Times.  I would send a url, with a few detailed sentences explaining the news, to the editors on solar power, wind power, geothermal energy, biodiesel gas, and eight other climate change/environmental topics.  Often, Times’ writers picked up these news blurbs for their own stories.  The rest of my time at the Times was geared towards researching story topics, cold-calling people for interviews, meeting with people in the city  to learn about my story topic, working with New York Times writers on draft changes, and simply, writing for the blog and helping Tom Zeller Jr. and Kate Zeller blog post for the Green Inc. blog of the New York Times.  My published works: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/author/sara-peters/.