Renee Schiavone

About

Renee Schiavone prides herself in being a team leader and cheerleader, working with others to achieve company goals. A social and new media innovator and champion of community engagement, she utilizes technology to help tell stories that reach large audiences.Demonstrative of her success as a news writer and editor, she helped increase monthly page views on kpsplocal2.com by more than 3,000% in three years while in the role of Executive Producer of Evolving Media at Palm Springs'​ CBS affiliate. At Patch.com, she has helped oversee the growth of California "patches" to become the premier neighborhood news site in communities up and down the coast. She now oversees teams across the nation.Renee's background includes writing for both television and web formats, and though she is well-versed in standard AP style, she is also proficient in writing for the web to catch readers'​ attention. She's also willing and capable of utilizing video and photographs when appropriate to enhance the story.Renee strongly believes that a good headline, crafted for both SEO and to be eye-catching, is at the core of a digital media publication's success. In her role with Patch, she has served as manager, editor, reporter and brand ambassador, and must cover a variety of topics; from the raging Southern California wildfires to the happenings of local government, she wears many hats in the community.Her knowledge of utilizing social media to connect with news consumers-- including the unique uses of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for this purpose-- has helped her leverage these media to attract stronger readership to her publications.Throughout her tenure at KPSP-TV and Patch, her strengths in social media have helped drive site readership tremendously, with Facebook often being the top referrer to her articles. Email growth and decreased churn rate are among her top objectives for her team.Renee is a graduate of Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, where she majored in Journalism, earning a B.A. in 2007.