Heather Doyle
Editor in New York
Hi, I'm Heather.
I'm a digital editor, project manager, and mentor with more than a decade of experience working at both start-ups and legacy newsrooms.
My values
Great headlines get readers in the door; great storytelling gets them to stick around.
Experimentation, honest analysis, and above all, the reader are most important to me. I balance innovative storytelling templates with the reader's needs. I know the flashiest presentation is not always the right presentation, and I prioritize the latter. Metrics, heat maps, recordings, and User Testing are in my arsenal to help make the right decisions.
In my relationships, I believe everyone is deserving of professionalism and respect. Diversity, equity and inclusion should be top priorities for every newsroom, and I use my leadership position to elevate and amplify others' voices. I especially focus on mentoring and advocating for young women whose voices are often drowned out or ignored.
My work
Project manager
My team's work runs the gamut from investigations to mobster profiles, high school graduations to COVID's lasting effects. They include:
- Award-winning investigations on widespread unequal treatment by real estate agents, the rise and fall of one of NY's most powerful mobsters, police internal affairs, and an aerospace giant's deceit
- Large-scale projects on high school graduations, including an inaugural event for more that 100 valedictorians
- Lifestyle features on staycations, Elvis Presley, Catskills road trips, and the rise of the “minimony” wedding.
- Contextualizing COVID with data and explainers.
Digital editing and visual storytelling
Some headlines and push alerts I wrote:
- 9 feet in the air and 10 years later: LIers who've raised their homes since Sandy
- She thought his deportation ended their love story. It didn't.
- 6,539 Black people tried to become police officers on LI. Only 67 were hired.
- 10 years. 10 bodies. 0 arrests. 12 key moments in the Gilgo investigation.
- What COVID did to Long Island: Contextualizing the virus' effects on LIers' lives, economy, education and more