Trish Riley: Freelance Writer from Florida


Trish Riley is an award-winning South Florida freelance journalist with regional and national newspaper and magazine credits. Although I cover everything from education and health to business, real estate and advertising concept and copy, my favorite specialties are the environment, health, travel and children and families. I combine these topics whenever possible. My goals are to raise awareness of environmental and health issues and to guide readers toward better stewardship of our natural resources. I like to provide information and insight that may prove helpful in guiding us all to healthier, happier lives. This year I was honored to learn that my story Toxic Schools, published in South Florida Parenting Magazine in April, 2003, received the 2004 Gold Award for Investigative Reporting from Parenting Publications of America. The same story also earned the Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Reporting from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, of which I am a member. I am also the proud recipient of an Honor Roll Award from LEAF, the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, which works to protect people's health and the environment in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. I like to write for and about the "Cultural Creatives," an emerging sociological group identified and tagged by sociologist Paul Ray and psychologist Sherry Anderson. These are folks who count honesty, good health, love and creativity among their priorities and for whom the environment is a more valuable commodity than money.* I have attended training conferences sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Journalism, the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, the Vintage Hudson Valley Travel Writers Conference at Troutbeck and the Travel Media Showcase in Atlantic City. I am a member of the the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the The International EcoTourism Society. My client list includes: Sam's Club Source magazine, E - The Environment Magazine, The Miami Herald, Family Life Magazine, The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Business Journal, The Toronto Sun, South Florida Parenting Magazine, Meridian Magazine, Drive Magazine, Nova Southeastern University, The Palm Beach Post’s First Sunday Magazine, RosieMagazine.com, and for research assignments: Self Magazine and Parade Magazine. I am co-author of The Unofficial Guide to the Best Tent and RV Campgrounds of Florida and the Southeast (John Wiley and Sons, 2002), served as hotel inspector for The Unofficial Guide to Florida (John Wiley and Sons, 2004) and am currently researching a guide to Florida's Gold Coast and the Keys for Countryman Press, due for publication in Spring, 2005. Offering professional and quality writing: * Executive Profiles * Marketing Profiles * Corporate Newsletters * Custom Publishing * Major Newspapers * Regional and National Magazines * Consulting Copywriting * Proofreading

Trish Riley is an award-winning South Florida freelance journalist with regional and national newspaper and magazine credits.

Although I cover everything from education and health to business, real estate and advertising concept and copy, my favorite specialties are the environment, health, travel and children and families. I combine these topics whenever possible. My goals are to raise awareness of environmental and health issues and to guide readers toward better stewardship of our natural resources. I like to provide information and insight that may prove helpful in guiding us all to healthier, happier lives.

This year I was honored to learn that my story Toxic Schools, published in South Florida Parenting Magazine in April, 2003, received the 2004 Gold Award for Investigative Reporting from Parenting Publications of America. The same story also earned the Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Reporting from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, of which I am a member. I am also the proud recipient of an Honor Roll Award from LEAF, the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, which works to protect people's health and the environment in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

I like to write for and about the "Cultural Creatives," an emerging sociological group identified and tagged by sociologist Paul Ray and psychologist Sherry Anderson. These are folks who count honesty, good health, love and creativity among their priorities and for whom the environment is a more valuable commodity than money.*

I have attended training conferences sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Journalism, the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, the Vintage Hudson Valley Travel Writers Conference at Troutbeck and the Travel Media Showcase in Atlantic City. I am a member of the the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the The International EcoTourism Society.

My client list includes: Sam's Club Source magazine, E - The Environment Magazine, The Miami Herald, Family Life Magazine, The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Business Journal, The Toronto Sun, South Florida Parenting Magazine, Meridian Magazine, Drive Magazine, Nova Southeastern University, The Palm Beach Post’s First Sunday Magazine, RosieMagazine.com, and for research assignments: Self Magazine and Parade Magazine. I am co-author of The Unofficial Guide to the Best Tent and RV Campgrounds of Florida and the Southeast (John Wiley and Sons, 2002), served as hotel inspector for The Unofficial Guide to Florida (John Wiley and Sons, 2004) and am currently researching a guide to Florida's Gold Coast and the Keys for Countryman Press, due for publication in Spring, 2005.

Offering professional and quality writing:

* Executive Profiles
* Marketing Profiles
* Corporate Newsletters
* Custom Publishing
* Major Newspapers
* Regional and National Magazines
* Consulting Copywriting
* Proofreading