Bio
Sandra Mardenfeld is a freelance writer, editor, social media manager, marketing consultant and educator based in Long Island, New York.
Sandra Mardenfeld is a freelance writer, editor, content creator, marketing consultant and educator based in Long Island, New York. She has worked as the managing editor for several national magazines, as the Broadway editor of Playbill and as an editor/content creator on many websites. She is also the author of the travel book, “New York Day Trips.” She currently teaches in Hofstra University’s department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations and at Five Towns College. She’s also worked as an assistant professor for LIU Post, St. Thomas Aquinas College and Mercy College
Writing and Editing
Sandra has written for more than 50 newspapers, magazines, and websites. Her features, articles, essays and reviews have run in such publications as Bride & Groom, Newsday, Allure, Distinction, The New York Times Book Review, Parents and Children, the Daily News, Jewelry Connoisseur, ModernBride.com, Elegant Bride, Working Woman, Time Out New York, Stagebill, The Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur.com, Retail Ad World, American Bookseller, Construction Equipment Guide and Good Dog. She also does marketing, content strategy, social media management and content creation. Sandra was a freelance copy editor for the Herald newspapers for three years, and currently edits for Business News Daily and Business.com.
Education
Sandra obtained her PhD in Communication and Information and Library Science, specializing in media studies, at Rutgers University. Her dissertation looked at reporter’s privilege through the perspective of the public and the practitioner using focus groups, interviews and published editorials. She received her master’s in magazine journalism at New York University and her bachelor’s in journalism at The State University College of Buffalo.
Awards
Sandra’s review of Snow White for Show Showdown won a Society of Professional Journalists/Press Club of Long Island Award for Best Online Arts Journalism. Her academic presentations include: “Editorials, reporter’s privilege, and public perception — a qualitative look on audiences’ opinions and attitudes about shield law and how to better educate student, baby-boomer, and senior populations on the issue,” at the 2011 International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in Istanbul, Turkey, and “Jailed! Journalists incarcerated for protecting sources speak out on the importance of reporters’ privilege,” at the New Jersey Communication Association, March 2007, which won the Top Graduate Student Paper Award.