Pietro Lombardi Multimedia journalist

Professional Experience lombardipietro.com

pietro.lombardi@fulbrightmail.org
October 2016 - Present
The Wall Street Journal - Dow Jones, Reporter
• I joined The WSJ for a 10-week internship in October 2016. I worked 10 months as a
Rome-based reporter, then moved to Barcelona with Dow Jones, where I currently work. Skills
I co-authored several front-page stories for The Wall Street Journal
• In Rome I wrote a dozen features and covered Italy’s political crisis, the terror attack in Language
Berlin, immigration, food, culture, human trafficking, breaking news and social issues • Fluent in Italian, English
• In Barcelona I cover corporate news for the group’s wire. I focus on major banks and
and Spanish
insurers in the EMEA region, and Italian companies. I also covered the terror attack in Data Journalism
Barcelona, the Catalan independence referendum and the social and political unrest in
the region for The WSJ
• Excel spreadsheets
• SQL
April 2016 - October 2016 • Data cleaning
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Data Journalist • Basic knowledge of data
• Lead reporter and data journalist on a project on social enterprises worldwide visualization, including
(http://poll2016.trust.org/). I led a team of up to four interns; helped draft a survey; online tools (e.g. Knight Lab)
analyzed the data; wrote the main story and fact-checked all the stories. I developed a • Elementary statistics
database of almost 900 experts in social enterprises, impact investing and related issues,
• Willing to learn advanced
and entrepreneurs using businesses to help tackle social problems. I liaised with the
data journalism skills,
different teams and the external partners involved in the project
• I also covered immigration, aid, development, women’s rights and human trafficking
including web scraping
Research
January - March 2016 • Accurint
CNN International, Digital producer - Intern • LexisNexis
• As a digital producer, I wrote about 30 stories, most of which were published on the
• Pacer
home page, for several desks. I also wrote headlines; managed CNN.com’s regional
pages (Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas, Middle East); researched and edited pictures;
• Advanced Internet search
built galleries and stories in the CMS; used analytics tools to monitor and increase tecniques
traffic and engagement • Ability to mine public
records
August 2014 - September 2015 Computer
The Washington Post, Investigative Intern •
Suite Office: Word, Power
• I worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sullivan and other members of the Point, Excel
investigative unit
• I co-authored the front-page investigation “Probable Cause,” which looked at how
• Adobe CS: InDesign,
Illustrator, Premiere
police officers in Washington, D.C. secure and execute residential search warrants. It
was one of the best criminal justice stories in 2016, according to The Marshall Project • Audacity
• I contributed to two front-page investigations: “Broken by the Bubble,” part of a series • CMS management
looking at the plight of the black middle class; “Shaken Science – A Disputed Diagnosis • Hootsuite
Imprisons Parents,” which explains how murder cases were built on a disputed diagnosis
• I also published a story as a freelancer, “A Pie in the Face for McDonald’s,” and helped
• Social media management
The Post in its coverage of the Vatican • SurveyGizmo, Qualtrics
• Salesforce
Pietro Lombardi Multimedia journalist

August 2014 - September 2015 Education

Investigative Reporting Workshop, Graduate Fellow
• Author of “New Journalism Ecosystem Thrives Worldwide,” a project to survey and August 2015
study nonprofit newsrooms around the world. The work is a core part of “The New M.A.
Newsrooms,” which was awarded the 2016 Research about Journalism prize by the Journalism and Public
Society of Professional Journalists Affairs
• I Contributed to “Assault on Justice,” a five-month investigation that showed how often the American University,
charge of assaulting a police officer was used in the District of Columbia, questioning its Washington, D.C.
potential for overuse particularly with minority men. For this story, my colleagues and I
researched more than 2,000 cases of assaulting a police officer charges from January 2012 July 2011
through December 2014, analyzed them and built a database. The report won several Master’s degree
national awards, including an AP award for Outstanding Enterprise Reporting and the Multimedia editing and
Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. The investigation prompted a reform, which narrowed new information professions
the charge in DC University La Sapienza,
•
I also co-managed social media and wrote for the Workshop’s blog Rome, Italy
Highest honors
April - August 2011
Corriere della Sera, Journalist July 2008
• Journalist on the international desk; proofreader and subeditor; wrote articles, edited Bachelor’s degree
photos and created graphics; from the newsroom, wrote about the war in Libya, the Communication
Arab Spring, the earthquake in Japan, Osama bin Laden’s death and the British Riots University Suor Orsola
• Leading Italian newspaper based in Milan, Italy Benincasa, Naples, Italy
Highest honors
Multimedia experience
Honors & Scholarships
October 2011 - June 2014 •2016: Society for
In this period, I had several professional and formative experiences. Among them: Professional Journalists’
• Wrote stories — including investigations into Neapolitan criminal networks and the Research about Journalism
environment — for several Italian outlets, such as Corriere del Mezzogiorno Award
• Worked as a communications specialist for institutions, businesses and events, such as • 2014: Fulbright scholarship
the Un-Habitat World Urban Forum •2010: Erasmus grant at the
• Volunteered for Radio Siani (an anti-Mafia radio), as a radio author, reporter and speaker.
University of Malaga, Spain
I generated ideas for stories; prepared and presented material on air for pre-recorded
and live pieces; identified guests and conducted both live and recorded interviews Organizations
June 2007 - November 2009
• IRE, Investigative Report-
ers and Editors, since June
• Cronache di Napoli (local newspaper with circulation of 12,000), Journalist – Naples, Italy. 2015
I wrote more than 500 articles about politics, events, crime and everyday life • Ordine dei Giornalisti,

the Italian association of

journalists, since November
2009