https://www.niamhmarnell.com/education daily 0.75 2024-03-12 https://www.niamhmarnell.com/about-me daily 0.75 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d710dea83b08d0001f29081/79b68a9c-359b-461e-bde4-1139cf7cd3be/DSC00194.JPG About Me - About Me I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and moved to New England when I was 16. I spent most of the next ten years between Boston, Cape Cod and Amherst, Massachusetts before becoming a bit of a wanderer, including extended layovers in Austin and Chicago. I recently escaped Washington DC after several years—just in time to avoid becoming a lifer! Phew! And I'm currently trying on a tropical island lifestyle on the white sand gulf coast beaches of Fort Myers. Three years in and this Irish girl still hasn’t gotten a tan. Maybe one day … just like someone in my high school year book hoped for me. I have a passion for nature, adventure and innovation. Although my chronic illness limits me, I always find ways to satisfy these intrepid longings, even if it's just road-tripping on the passenger side, learning new skills or discovering what is happening on the fringes. I have an intense obsession with probably too many things: interior design, growing a food forest, the reality TV show that is politics, health and wellness everything, plant based cooking, photography, reading, environmentalism, learning piano and ukulele, attempting to relearn my native tongue (Irish), and generally just being way too curious and excited about everything. I was once called pathologically positive. I’m not currently receiving treatment for it. I’m not sure there’s a cure … maybe the apocalypse … but, actually, I’m pretty excited about that too. I’m hoping for zombies. https://www.niamhmarnell.com/experience daily 0.75 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d710dea83b08d0001f29081/1597444029940-MDZ20NXQ9LHTF7M6OWR3/Supreme+Court+Gala+2018+-84.jpg Home - Experience I got my first taste of journalism at Harvard and MIT where I worked for a joint division of the two schools updating the web content and contributing news blurbs for their website. I was hooked. I subsequently moved to Washington, D.C. to get my start in journalism at DC Bureau where I worked under Joseph Trento, the former head of CNN's Special Assignment Unit and consultant for 60 Minutes, Nightline and Prime Time Live. There I covered national security, the environment and health. That led to an opportunity to work as a newspaper editor in Austin, TX at a publication with a circulation of 80,000. I managed the print publication, the website and the social media content. I also wrote articles for the print and web, and I managed a team of journalists, designers and photographers. Just as my career was taking off, a chronic illness left me debilitated and unable to work for several years. I am thrilled, however, that my health has improved enough that I am able to write again. Most recently I have been writing and associate producing short documentary films, including the award-winning films “KOREMATSU VS US” and “Taking Poletown: A Community’s Fight Over Economic Justice & Eminent Domain.” I am now looking forward to getting back to my journalism roots and focusing on my passion covering the areas of health and wellness with the level of rigor that they deserve. Research-Focused Approach Knowing how to navigate research papers is essential to providing accurate information to readers, especially in the areas of food and health where there are so many conflicting messages. My research training from my graduate and undergraduate degrees has proven to be indispensable in this regard. I have a passion for connecting readers with the latest science, so they can cut through all the confusion and start applying the most up-to-date knowledge in their lives. My peculiar hobby of reading research papers on a daily basis just for fun also has the happy side effect of leading me to unique ideas or angles for stories. https://www.niamhmarnell.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2019-09-05 https://www.niamhmarnell.com/documentary-films daily 0.75 2024-02-13 https://www.niamhmarnell.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d710dea83b08d0001f29081/1662332479692-RGI6OZNQVSC5RTB5FDN2/Supreme%2BCourt%2BGala%2B2018%2B-843.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.niamhmarnell.com/faq-mojave daily 0.75 2025-06-10 https://www.niamhmarnell.com/terms-of-service-mojave daily 0.75 2025-06-10 https://www.niamhmarnell.com/privacy-policy-mojave daily 0.75 2025-06-10