bio

Nicole is a San Francisco native who recently returned home after stints in Milan and Florence, Italy.

She currently works for the International Journalists’ Network (IJNet), a non-profit organization that publishes information by and for journalists in seven languages. There, as the English editor and community manager, she doubled doubled unique visitors to the site by redesigning content strategy for the homepage, refining content types and coordinating reporting efforts. She also blogs regularly about all things Cupertino at Cult of Mac.

As a freelancer, she has worked for the Economist.com, Wired News, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC2, Newsweek, Discovery Channel and the Italian-language editions of Linux Magazine, Wired and Vanity Fair. While visiting the world’s only plant intelligence lab and voting in the first online Democratic primary she also picked up video, photo and web skills.

The only foreigner at the University of Florence’s Media and Communications masters program, after graduation Nicole landed a job at leading national TV network Canale 5 in Milan. She spent three years as Foreign News Coordinator for a daily 6 p.m. news and entertainment program called “Verissimo,” producing up to five stories a week.

As an editor, she has reshaped content into English for Italian trade publications including Fashion Magazine, photography magazine Variatio and architecture magazine Elementi.  As managing editor at video encyclopedia Ovo, she led a team of copy editors and translators, shored up scripts and visual content while creating a house style guide, fact-checking manual and instituting an unheard of Milan office tradition — Friday donuts.

She does not usually refer to herself in the third person and dreams of a guest spot on Myth Busters.

You can find her on Linked in, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.
Contact: email nm AT nicolemartinelli.com or the contact form at her web site zoomata.