Work

Storytelling that earns trust.

25+ years of turning complicated ideas into content that informs, persuades, and builds credibility. A selection of work across journalism, federal consulting, healthcare, and content strategy.

Clinical & Scientific Storytelling

White papers

White Paper  ·  Pulmonology / Critical Care

BAL sampling reimagined: improving safety, workflow and outcomes

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist

Clinical white paper on bronchoalveolar lavage workflow, anchored to a peer-reviewed study ranking six single-use bronchoscopes for BAL procedures. Covers clinical need, workflow pain points, product innovation, and validated outcomes.

  • Clinical accuracy in a regulated environment
  • Translating peer-reviewed study data for a clinical audience
  • Compliance-aware narrative in a med-tech context
White Paper  ·  Regulatory / Infection Prevention

Flexible bronchoscopes and the FDA's updated recommendations for reprocessing

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist

Policy-to-practice white paper mapping the FDA's updated safety communications on reusable bronchoscopes to the clinical and operational case for single-use endoscopy technology. Draws on MDR data, clinical literature, and regulatory timeline.

  • Regulatory narrative for a clinical audience
  • Translating FDA guidance into actionable content
  • Long-form argument construction under compliance constraints
Sponsored White Paper  ·  Infection Control / Trade Media

Infection control in endoscopy

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist

Sponsored white paper placed in Becker's Healthcare, one of the leading trade publications in hospital administration and clinical operations. Covers ERCP infection risk, FDA guidance, reprocessing complexity, and the clinical case for single-use alternatives.

  • Sponsored editorial in a trade publication context
  • Audience translation — clinical content for hospital administration readers
  • Brand journalism within compliance guardrails
Premium & Sponsored Editorial

KOL-driven content and brand journalism

Premium content developed from key opinion leader interviews and clinical insights — used in gated and ungated campaign contexts across multiple channels.

Premium Editorial  ·  Airway Management / COVID-19

Safeguarding healthcare workers in airway management: lessons from COVID-19

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist

Long-form premium piece exploring pandemic-era infection prevention protocols for respiratory therapists, anesthesiologists, and pulmonologists. Synthesizes society guidelines, clinical research, and expert commentary into a practitioner-focused narrative.

  • Multi-source clinical synthesis for a specialist audience
  • Pandemic-era urgency translated into durable content
  • Campaign asset designed for gated distribution
Sponsored White Paper  ·  Healthcare / Post-Pandemic Recovery

The rebound: overcoming backlogs with single-use endoscopy

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist

Sponsored white paper distributed through Healthcare Purchasing News, targeting hospital supply chain and procurement decision-makers. Builds the operational and financial case for single-use endoscopy as institutions navigated post-pandemic procedural backlogs.

  • Supply chain and procurement audience translation
  • Financial and operational framing of a clinical argument
  • Trade media sponsored content placement
Premium Q&A  ·  ICU / Single-Use Endoscopy

Q&A: exploring single-use efficiency in the ICU

Editor & Content Strategist

Long-form KOL interview with the medical director of the NYU Langone Tisch Hospital Cardiac Care Unit. Covers infection prevention, workflow efficiency, cost considerations, and pandemic-era clinical decision-making.

  • KOL interview development and editorial shaping
  • Physician voice — preserving authenticity within brand guardrails
  • Content designed for a gated learning platform
Federal & Enterprise Content

Brand journalism at scale

Annual Impact Report  ·  Federal Consulting / Brand Journalism

Annual impact report

Writer & Editor

Full-scale corporate brand journalism publication distributed to stockholders, employees, and institutional partners. Covers 18 feature stories across cybersecurity, data science, defense, healthcare, and social impact programs. A direct demonstration of editorial discipline applied to a complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise environment.

  • Enterprise brand journalism at the executive level
  • Stakeholder communications — employees, investors, public
  • Journalism structure applied to corporate content
Audio & Multimedia

Podcasting

Podcast · Healthcare Education

Endoscopy Insights

Co-Producer & Host

Ongoing series targeting clinical professionals in bronchoscopy, gastroenterology, and critical care. Combines KOL interviews, clinical case discussions, and educational content in an audio format — extending the brand journalism approach beyond print and into physician workflow.

  • Podcast content strategy and editorial direction
  • Clinical audience engagement in an audio format
  • Multi-channel content extension of a brand journalism platform
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Digital Campaigns

Omnichannel content programs

Digital Campaign  ·  Sustainability / Brand

Join the circle sustainability campaign

Writer & Content Strategist

Multi-piece sustainability content program positioning a single-use endoscopy platform within a broader environmental responsibility narrative. Includes a dedicated sustainability hub, videos, pillar blog content, and social media posts.

  • Sustainability narrative strategy for a regulated med-tech brand
  • Multi-piece content architecture connecting environmental practice to clinical value
  • Brand values translated into clinical audience language
Digital Campaign  ·  ENT / Physician Productivity

ENT resident productivity campaign

Writer & Content Strategist

Targeted content campaign for ENT program directors and chief residents, positioning a single-use rhinolaryngoscope as a workflow efficiency tool. Includes a dedicated product landing page and supporting blog content anchored to a peer-reviewed study on time savings per consultation.

  • Specialist audience segmentation — residents and early-career physicians
  • Clinical study translated into a physician productivity argument
  • Campaign content mapped to a specific buyer journey stage
Product Marketing  ·  Airway Management / Heritage Brand

The world's first self-inflating resuscitator

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist

Digital content and product page for an iconic and globally recognized product — the Ambu Bag, the world's first self-inflating resuscitator, invented in 1956 and still in clinical use worldwide. Content strategy navigates the challenge of marketing a heritage product to clinical professionals who already know the brand.

  • Heritage brand content strategy
  • Clinical product positioning for a highly familiar audience
  • Translating decades of product history into current clinical context
Journalism

25+ years in the newsroom

This is a small sample of my journalism work, spanning cover stories, daily news coverage, and personal-voice columns from more than two decades as a business reporter and editor. This section will continue to evolve as more clips are added.

Cover stories

Cover Story  ·  Federal Technology / Cloud Computing

The everything contractor: AWS is fast eclipsing its rivals in the federal cloud

Senior Staff Reporter

Cover story examining Amazon Web Services' rapid dominance of the federal cloud computing market, from its underdog 2013 CIA contract win through the controversial $10 billion Pentagon JEDI procurement. Combines original reporting, data visualization, and executive interviews to explain a shift reshaping government technology contracting.

  • Complex technical and regulatory subject matter translated for a business audience
  • Original data reporting and market analysis
  • Multi-source reporting across government and industry perspectives
Cover Story  ·  Corporate Profile / Exclusive Interview

Life on Mars: an exclusive interview with Mars Inc.'s chairman and heir

Senior Staff Reporter

Cover story built around an exclusive interview with Mars Inc. chairman Stephen Badger — one of the first the notoriously private, family-owned candy and pet care giant had granted in decades. Traces the company's history, ownership structure, and strategic shift toward public engagement.

  • Access journalism — securing and shaping a rare exclusive interview
  • Corporate history and family ownership narrative
  • Long-form feature structure across multiple sidebars and timelines
Cover Story  ·  Youth Sports / Industry Analysis

Not just fun and games: the new business of youth sports

Senior Staff Reporter

Cover story investigating the professionalization of youth sports into a $1.4 billion regional industry, told through the lens of families, entrepreneurs, and private equity investors reshaping the business of childhood athletics.

  • Industry trend reporting anchored in personal narrative
  • Data-driven market sizing and analysis
  • Multi-source reporting across families, executives, and academics

Daily web coverage

Web Story  ·  Technology / Workforce

Want a job at Amazon? Here's how to get one.

Senior Staff Reporter

News feature on Amazon's rigorous hiring process and corporate culture, published as the company's HQ2 decision brought thousands of jobs to the region. Draws on insider accounts and recruiting experts to explain what it actually takes to get hired.

  • Fast-turn reporting tied to a breaking regional business story
  • Source development with confidential and named subjects
  • Explanatory journalism on corporate culture
Web Story  ·  Government Contracting / Technology Policy

8 revealing questions and answers in the JEDI cloud contract solicitation

Senior Staff Reporter

Analysis piece built from nearly 1,100 public comments submitted to the Pentagon's controversial JEDI cloud contract, distilling technical procurement disputes into a readable narrative about a $10 billion fight over federal technology strategy.

  • Original document analysis — reviewing over 1,000 primary source comments
  • Translating procurement and technical detail for a business audience
  • Enterprise reporting on a contested federal contract
Web Story  ·  Defense Technology / Innovation

Want to get Lockheed Martin's attention? Be really good at these 4 things.

Senior Staff Reporter

Reporting on the four emerging technologies Lockheed Martin's CEO identified as strategic priorities — hypersonics, laser weapons, artificial intelligence, and electronic warfare — and what they mean for smaller companies seeking to partner with the defense giant.

  • Executive event coverage translated into forward-looking analysis
  • Technical defense subject matter made accessible
  • Actionable framing for a business readership

Columns

Column  ·  Signal to Noise / Leadership

A quarter for your thoughts on crisis management

Managing Editor

Personal-voice column using a household crisis — a young son swallowing a quarter — to explore the leadership competencies required in real crisis management, drawing on the work of organizational psychologist Erika Hayes James.

  • First-person narrative voice paired with business insight
  • Translating academic leadership research for a general audience
  • Self-aware humor as a stylistic device
Column  ·  Signal to Noise / Leadership

Forget Sun Tzu. Take these 6 leadership lessons from the Eagles' Glenn Frey.

Managing Editor

News-hook column using Glenn Frey's death and the "History of the Eagles" documentary to extract six leadership lessons for executives, reframing rock band dynamics as an unconventional case study in management.

  • Timely news-hook writing on a fast turnaround
  • Pop-culture framing applied to a business audience
  • Structured listicle format built around a narrative throughline
Column  ·  Signal to Noise / Voice & Humor

Our giant pandas are a national treasure, and I'm bitter about it

Managing Editor

Humor column using a lifelong disdain for the National Zoo's famous pandas as a vehicle for personal storytelling — a demonstration of range and voice beyond hard business reporting.

  • Distinctive personal voice and comic timing
  • Local cultural commentary tied to a recognizable community institution
  • Demonstrates range beyond core beat reporting

Additional writing samples and clips are available upon request.

Robert J. Terry
25+ years of journalism, newsroom leadership, and content marketing across national B2B publications, federal consulting, and regulated healthcare. Open to full-time leadership roles and consulting engagements.
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