As a Senior Researcher for American City Business Journals …
- Wyatt leads a team creating business market research products for newsrooms in Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio.
- Their work includes data acquisition, direct surveying, data analysis/cleanup and presentation for a business audience.
- They manage two direct reports, ensuring all needs and deadlines are met across markets.
As Assistant Managing Editor for the Houston Business Journal …
- They edited stories for print and online platforms, wrote headlines, subheads and facilitated artwork and photos.
- They helped in managing several reporters, prioritized their daily short-term and long-term enterprise content.
- They shepherded the HBJ’s events and awards process from beginning to end, handled nominations, helped select honorees and wrote pre- and post-event coverage.
- They managed the newsrooms research and data projects and directly managed the data reporter/researcher.
As the former data reporter/researcher, they managed the newsroom’s database of thousands of businesses with locations in the Houston metro area. They analyzed this data, found trends and combined it with traditional reporting.
At AccuWeather, they worked with other journalists on large data-driven projects covering the impact of climate change, extreme heat events and hurricanes.
At The Portager, a decentralized news startup in rural Northeast Ohio, they covered the 2021 elections, environment/pollution and local government.
At EcoOhio, a local news project of Kent State University, they wrote solutions stories about the Cuyahoga River, walkability in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, brownfields and Superfunds.
Wyatt graduated in 2022 with a degree in journalism and political science from Kent State University.