Jonah Blake

Writer & Editor · long-form journalism and brand narrative

Writer and editor with a reporter's nose and a copyeditor's discipline. Twelve years turning tangled subjects — climate, labor, the odd true-crime detour — into stories people finish and forward. I edit the way I wish I'd been edited: hard on the draft, easy on the writer.

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Selected work

"The Last Shift" — feature

A 6,000-word narrative following a closing factory town across one winter, built from three months of on-the-ground reporting.

National Magazine Award finalist; anthologized in a year's-best collection.

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Experience

2019-05 — NOW

Senior Editor

The Meridian Review

• Edit the magazine's flagship long-form desk; assigned and shaped three National Magazine Award finalists.
• Rebuilt the freelance pipeline and standards guide, doubling the contributor pool without diluting quality.
• Mentor early-career writers through the full arc from pitch to fact-check.

2013-08 — 2019-04

Staff Writer

Ledger & Lens

• Reported and wrote 60+ features on labor and the climate economy, two anthologized in best-of collections.
• Broke a regional investigation that prompted a state-level policy review.

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Toolkit

Long-form writingEditingReportingFact-checkingNarrative structureCopyeditingBrand voiceInterviewing