Pietro Lombardi Multimedia journalist

Professional Experience www.lombardipietro.com

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October 2016 - Present
The Wall Street Journal - Dow Jones Newswires, Senior Reporter
• Senior reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and contributor to The Wall Street Journal. I Honors & Scholarships
co-authored several front-page stories for The WSJ.
In less than three years, I went from intern to senior reporter and now cover business
• 2016: Society for
Professional Journalists’
and corporate news, focusing on major banks and insurers in continental Europe
Research about Journalism
• I coordinate a team of eight reporters. My responsibilities include planning and
Award
organizing news coverage, establishing priorities and editing stories. I also participate in • 2014: Fulbright scholarship
the hiring process of new reporters and train them. For the WSJ, I covered stories like the
measles outbreaks in Romania, the 2018 elections in Italy, the terror attack in Barcelona • 2010: Erasmus grant at the
and the Catalan independence referendum. As a Rome-based reporter, I covered Italy’s University of Malaga, Spain
political crisis, immigration, food, human trafficking, breaking news and more
Skills
April 2016 - October 2016
Language
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Data Journalist • Fluent in Italian, English
• Lead reporter and data journalist on a project on social enterprises worldwide and Spanish
(http://poll2016.trust.org/). I led a team of up to four interns; helped draft a survey;
• Learning French
analyzed the data; wrote the main story and fact-checked all the stories. I developed a
database of almost 900 experts in social enterprises, impact investing and related issues. Data Journalism
I liaised with the different teams, foreign correspondents and external partners involved • Excel spreadsheets
in the project • SQL
• I also covered immigration, aid, development, women’s rights and human trafficking
• Data cleaning
January - March 2016 • Basic knowledge of data
CNN International, Digital producer - Intern visualization, including
online tools (e.g. Knight Lab)
• As a digital producer, I wrote about 30 stories, most of which were published on the
home page, for several desks. I also wrote headlines; managed CNN.com’s regional • Learning elementary
pages (Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas, Middle East); researched and edited pictures; statistics and advanced
built galleries and stories in the CMS; used analytics tools to monitor and increase data journalism skills,
traffic and engagement including web scraping

August 2014 - September 2015

Computer
The Washington Post, Investigative Intern
•
Suite Office: Word, Power
Point, Excel
• I worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sullivan and other members of the
investigative unit • Adobe CS: InDesign,
• I co-authored the front-page investigation “Probable Cause,” which looked at how Illustrator, Premiere
police officers in Washington, D.C. secure and execute residential search warrants. It • Audacity
was one of the best criminal justice stories in 2016, according to The Marshall Project • CMS management
• I contributed to two front-page investigations: “Broken by the Bubble,” part of a series
• Hootsuite
looking at the plight of the black middle class; “Shaken Science – A Disputed Diagnosis
Imprisons Parents,” which explains how murder cases were built on a disputed diagnosis • Social media management
• I also published a story as a freelancer, “A Pie in the Face for McDonald’s,” and helped • SurveyGizmo, Qualtrics
The Post in its coverage of the Vatican • Salesforce
Pietro Lombardi Multimedia journalist

August 2014 - September 2015 Research

Investigative Reporting Workshop, Graduate Fellow • Accurint
• Author of “New Journalism Ecosystem Thrives Worldwide,” a project to survey and • LexisNexis
study nonprofit newsrooms around the world. The work is a core part of “The New
• Pacer
Newsrooms,” which was awarded the 2016 Research about Journalism prize by the
Society of Professional Journalists • Advanced Internet search
• I Contributed to “Assault on Justice,” a five-month investigation that showed how often the tecniques
charge of assaulting a police officer was used in the District of Columbia, questioning its • Ability to mine public
potential for overuse particularly with minority men. For this story, my colleagues and I records
researched more than 2,000 cases of assaulting a police officer charges from January 2012 • FactSet
through December 2014, analyzed them and built a database. The report won several
national awards, including an AP award for Outstanding Enterprise Reporting and the Education
Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. The investigation prompted a reform, which narrowed
the charge in DC August 2015
•
I also co-managed social media and wrote for the Workshop’s blog
M.A.
Journalism and Public
April - August 2011
Affairs
Corriere della Sera, Journalist American University,
• Intern, then journalist, on the international desk of the leading Italian newspaper. Washington, D.C.
I wrote articles, edited photos and created graphics; from the newsroom, wrote about
the war in Libya, the Arab Spring, the earthquake in Japan, Osama bin Laden’s death and July 2011
the British Riots
Master’s degree
Multimedia editing and
June 2007 - June 2014
new information professions
In this period, I had several professional and formative experiences. Among them: University La Sapienza,
• Wrote stories — including investigations into Neapolitan criminal networks and Rome, Italy
environmental crimes — for several Italian outlets, such as Corriere del Mezzogiorno Highest honors
• Worked as a communications specialist for institutions, businesses and events, such as

the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum July 2008

• Volunteered for Radio Siani, an anti-Mafia radio, as a radio author, reporter and presenter
Bachelor’s degree
I generated ideas for stories; prepared and presented material on air for pre-recorded Communication
and live pieces; identified guests and conducted both live and recorded interviews University Suor Orsola
• Wrote hundreds of articles for local newspaper Cronache di Napoli, covering politics and
Benincasa, Naples, Italy
culture Highest honors

Organizations
• IRE, Investigative Reporters and Editors, since June 2015
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Ordine dei Giornalisti, the Italian association of journalists, since November 2009