June Bell
Writer, content strategist, and wordsmith in San Francisco, CA
June Bell is an award-winning journalist and writer who crafts compelling pieces for magazines, newspapers, social media and blogs. She is adept at reporting on business and entrepreneurship issues, labor and employment matters, HR, startup culture, innovation and popular culture and trends.
Her work has appeared in The National Law Journal, HR Magazine, VC (Venture Capital) Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, Alta magazine, Arrive magazine, California Lawyer, Black Enterprise, Law Firm Inc., Corporate Counsel, The Dallas Morning News, Parenting, The Forward, The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, The San Francisco Business Times, San Jose magazine and many alumni magazines, including those of Columbia Business School, Barnard College, Cornell University and Harvard and Stanford law school.
June is an experienced ghostwriter who transforms the insights and ideas of busy professionals—executives, business leaders, consultants and law firm partners—into fluid, compelling prose. She has ghostwritten several non-fiction books and scores of thought leadership pieces that have appeared in/on the Wall Street Journal’s Accelerators blog, Law360, VentureBeat, Xconomy.com, The American Lawyer and TechCrunch.
She’s especially adept at brainstorming with executives and experts and then crafting content that builds connections between businesses and their target audiences. Her corporate/association content clients include Costco, UPS, Amtrak, Massage Envy and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
An honors graduate of Cornell University, she holds a social media marketing certificate from San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning and has attended the annual Content Marketing World conference.
June spent more than a decade as a daily newspaper reporter covering law, business, education, breaking news and popular culture beats. A stint on the copy desk of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution fed her passion for clever headlines and her uncanny ability to spot misplaced modifiers.
She has been honored twice by the Peninsula Press Club, once for her superb coverage of a high-profile murder trial and again for a series on disadvantaged college-bound teens.
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