Fran Fried – Online Portfolio
If you consider hiring me as a writer (journalism or communications/publicity), editor (ditto) or voiceover talent (journalism, communications, documentaries or cartoons), or in a diversity and inclusion capacity, here are some samples of my work – communications at a major university, writing and editing for newspapers and websites, television appearances, my blog and my freelance copywriting. I hope I can convey to you both my quality and versatility:
Communications writing/Yale School of Public Health website
Story on the winners of a $25,000 prize for innovation, and a look back at the first winners from 10 years ago and what they’ve done since (April 25, 2024):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/upkeep-care-awarded-2024-thorne-prize-for-innovation/
Story on a data equity conference held at YSPH (April 3, 2024):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/data-equity-conference-brings-leaders-together-to-reduce-health-disparities/
Story on an Executive MPH program student, a victim of human trafficking who started an organization devoted to help eradicate it (May 11, 2023):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/emph-student-nathan-earl-uses-personal-experience-to-help-eradicate-human-trafficking/
Story on a doctor who fled her native Sudan and is at YSPH as a Yale University Scholar at Risk (Dec. 8, 2023):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/sudanese-scholar-at-risk-finds-safety-and-a-temporary-home-at-ysph/
Story on a YSPH professor who received a National Institute on Drug Abuse Racial Equity Visionary Award – a $3.5 million grant (Aug. 22, 2023):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/opara-receives-dollar35-million-grant-to-curb-urban-drug-use-involve-youth-in-research/
Story on an alumnus who co-authored the Giffords Law Center’s report on the Uvalde massacre (June 13, 2023):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/seasoned-trauma-counselor-and-ysph-alum-kristopher-mclucas-helps-uvalde-community-following-massacre/
Story about 93-year-old Ruth (Migdal) Taber, Yale Class of 1954, who advocates for better care for the elderly – and, while working for the New York City Health Department out of college, got Elvis Presley to take the polio vaccine in order to influence teens to do the same (Feb. 21, 2022):
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/from-elvis-to-elder-care-yale-public-health-alumna-ruth-taber-brings-passion-to-all-that-she-does/
Journalism op-ed writing
Op-ed piece for The New York Times Opinion section (online) (May 4, 2015):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/transgender-today/stories/fran-fried
Op-ed piece (in print and online) for the New Haven Register (April 29, 2015):
http://www.nhregister.com/opinion/20150429/forum-jenner-x2014-some-of-this-story-sounds-familiar
Journalism features
Feature for the pop culture website Please Kill Me about the 50th anniversary of Hot Wheels (June 25, 2018):
https://pleasekillme.com/hot-wheels-at-50/
Story for NewHavenBiz.com on how local business accelerators managed to adapt during the pandemic (Jan. 1, 2021):
https://www.newhavenbiz.com/article/accelerator-programs-have-learned-to-adapt-during-pandemic
Q-and-A with Brian Wilson (then on his first major solo tour), Weekend section, New Haven Register (June 18, 1999):
http://wp.me/pNEes-CN
Feature story on Paul Giamatti (playing Harvey Pekar in his first starring role, in American Splendor), Life section, New Haven Register (Sept. 11, 2002; resurrected for my blog, Feb. 17, 2011):
http://wp.me/pNEes-Ax
Feature story on the release of Rhino Records’ Nuggets box set, Arts section, New Haven Register (Sept. 13, 1998):
http://wp.me/pNEes-Aj
Story for ABC Radio News on the opening of the Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week (Sept. 16, 2016): abc-beatles-pdf-9-16-16
Written interview I gave for the blog The Heroines in My Life (posted Sept. 4, 2017):
https://theheroines.blogspot.com/2017/09/interview-with-fran-fried.html
Communications/publicity copywriting, freelance
Press release for Another Cinderella, the 2021 album by The Split Squad, a left-of-dial all-star band that includes Clem Burke of Blondie, Keith Streng of The Fleshtones, Eddie Munoz of The Plimsouls and Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor (November 2021):
The Split Squad bio FINAL 11-2021
Copy for digital ad for TCI Mobility, a Pompano Beach, FL, company specializing in outfitting vehicles for medical transport (Aug. 1, 2020):
TCI Mobility Digital Ad 8-1-20
Press release for the 2021 NHDocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival:
NHdocs 2021 7-22-21
Press release for the 2020 NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival:
NHdocs 2020 8-1-20
Press release for the 2019 NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival:
NHdocs 2019 5-1-19
Copy for a brochure on a hair restoration process by Hair Again, a clinic in Fresno, CA (August 2019; inside copy only):
Hair Again brochure proof 8-28-19
Media bio for Austin-based band New Mystery Girl and their EP Crawl Through Your Hair, April 2016 (“Brand New Love,” from the EP, was a Coolest Song in the World on Sirius XM’s Underground Garage channel, June 2016):
New Mystery Girl pdf bio 4-17-16
News release for Los Angeles-based band The Outta Sites (June 2013):
The Outta Sites bio 6-13
News release for New England Fashion+Design Association, South Norwalk, CT, January 2013:
Irina press release 1-31-13
Web page bio written for Connecticut musician Dave Hogan, 2013:
http://www.davehoganmusic.com/davesolo.htm
Journalism and Communications editor
Copy editor of Yale Public Health magazine, Fall 2021:
https://www.pageturnpro.com/Yale-School-of-Public-Health/101977-Yale-Public-Health-Fall-2021–Vaccines/sdefault.html#page/1
Copy editor of the inaugural issue of Focus, the Yale School of Public Health’s in-house magazine, Spring 2021:
https://www.pageturnpro.com/Yale-School-of-Public-Health/99921-Focus–Special-Edition–Spring-2021/sdefault.html#page/1
The attempts to fight erosion of the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina’s Albemarle Peninsula, Pacific Standard, Nov. 7, 2011:
https://psmag.com/alligator-river-refuge-rolls-back-from-rising-sea-be5483399d26#.jtdy25yv2
Life section cover and jump, The Fresno Bee, Feb. 12, 2008:
2-12-08 E1
2-12-08 E4
Sunday A1 centerpiece, The Fresno Bee, Oct. 2, 2005:
10-2-05 A1
10-2-05 A16
10-2-05 A17
BackTalk (high school features page), The Fresno Bee, Jan. 4, 2009:
1-4-09 BackTalk
BackTalk (high school features page), The Fresno Bee, April 29, 2007:
4-29-07 BackTalk
Diversity/Consultancy/Advocacy
The transgender-inclusive school diversity policy implemented by the William Floyd School District, Mastic Beach, NY (January 2016); I was asked for my input as they were formulating it:
william-floyd-school-district-transgender-policy
Blog
Obituary of Hilton Valentine, original guitarist for The Animals and a friend to many in the local music scene in Connecticut (Jan. 30, 2021):
hilton-valentine-1943-2021-just-your-friendly-local-rocknroll-giant
Think piece on women and the words “I’m sorry” (March 3, 2016):
http://wp.me/pNEes-1VX
Reaction to Jason Collins’ coming out as gay while still playing in the NBA (April 29, 2013): http://wp.me/pNEes-1DF
Obituary/tribute to Joe Franklin, the king of late-night talk shows (Jan. 25, 2015):
http://wp.me/pNEes-1Py
Television appearances
Preview of my appearance on Jeopardy!, News 8, WTNH-8, New Haven (Oct. 17, 2017):
https://www.wtnh.com/entertainment/ct-contestant-from-prospect-appears-on-jeopardy_20180403100633746/1097466765
Follow-up interview after my Jeopardy! appearance, Good Morning Connecticut, WTNH-8 (Oct. 18, 2017): https://www.wtnh.com/news/jeoprady-contestant/1096820512
Voiceover talent
The High School That Rocked! (2017), a documentary on Staples High School in Westport, CT, which, from the mid-1960s into the early ’70s, brought in concerts by several legendary rock bands (The Animals, The Doors, Cream, The Young Rascals, The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, and Steven Tyler’s teenage band opening). Produced by Fred Cantor, directed by Casey Denton, narrated by me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqzN-QAMLZg&feature=youtu.be
Commercial for TCI MobilityShield (August 2020), a COVID 19 safety device created and installed by TCI Mobility, a Pompano Beach, FL-based company that outfits vans for medical transport. I was the voice talent and had a hand in writing the copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQfvqiA8tBI
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SHonHLHODRn3lAe7DyUekL9_bFZIY8qf/view
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