Caitlin Kelly: Writer and Editor  
 
 
    newspapers    
 
   

Why assign to me?

I offer terrific skills, thanks to my work as a staff reporter and feature writer for three major dailies, the national Globe and Mail in Toronto, Canada, the Gazette in Montreal and most recently, in 2005 and 2006, the New York Daily News.

I've also been writing freelance for The New York Times since 1989, from the sailing beat to business, book reviews to real estate.

Hire me to find the right sources quickly, interview them in depth and write for you, easily delivering within hours when necessary. Take advantage of my hard-news expertise, and my fluent French and excellent Spanish, for projects demanding thoughtful, incisive reporting.

I've won exclusive interviews, from convicted murderers to the woman who kept former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani alive – his female NYPD bodyguard – on 9/11. An extremely skilled interviewer, I've compassionately coaxed many difficult stories from victims of trauma, injury and illness.

My copy arrives on your desk clean, engaging and accurate.

   
 
    Some Clips:    
  Crime Lab Gets a Shot in the Arm
New York Times : September 16, 2007
   
  Last year burglars hit three Subway sandwich shops in central Westchester. In one case...
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  In a Hospital Stay, No Time to Rest
New York Times : August 7, 2007
   
  Grand Central Terminal may be synonymous with noise and haste. But as I recently discovered, it can be a lot quieter than a hospital bed.
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  Lesson One: The Price the Contractor Quotes Is an Estimate
New York Times : February 22, 2007
   
  In a recent letter to her readers, Dominique Browning, the longtime editor of House & Garden magazine, wrote about the agony of renovation, but suggested her experience was so painful that she preferred not to give details.
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  The $250,000 Question
New York Times : January 12, 2007
   
  What kind of second home can you get these days for $250,000? It depends on where you're looking. Want something of a bargain? Then head north.
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  New Libraries That Don't Just Go by the Book
New York Times : February 11, 2007
   
  In the last 13 years, Mount Kisco has built a police station, a recreation center and pool, and a water filtration plant. The village raised the $28.9 million through bond issues to pay for the three projects, but another concern -- its small, well-worn library -- kept falling to the bottom of the to-do list.
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  Single-Minded Women Take the Plunge: The Fanatic
New York Post
   
  She wanted a studio in Manhattan for $100,000 or less. Coming from Las Vegas, the land of long odds, it seemed reasonable to Stephanie Rushia, a single, 34-year-old freelance editor and writer...
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  Their Best Shot
Hartford Courant
   
  Sandwiched between cornfields and the Dayton International Airport, the world's largest shooting event, The Grand American World Trapshooting Championships, happens in Vandelia, Ohio, every August...
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  Bump, grind, sweat
The Ottawa Citizen
   
  There they are, 23 fine examples of American womanhood, in varying stages of undress - bumping, grinding, slithering, running their hands suggestively along their hips acoss their faces, though their hair. Watching themselves in the mirror. Grinding their sweaty bodies up against pillars. "Rotate! Rotate! Rotate!" hollers Carl, one of...
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  Moving Overseas? Prepare Yourself
The Washington Post
   
  The kids can't understand their classmates' jokes, you're not sure where to take the trash, your husband is gone most of the time and, when he is home, is just as tired and disoriented as you are. Welcome to the glamorous world of expatriate marriage...
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  Hippocrates meets the HMO
Facts & Arguments (The Globe and Mail)
   
  Two precious pieces of plastic enable me to enjoy life in the United States, and neither carries an interest rate. One is my green card, actually a pale pink, issued in 1988 when I arrived from my native Canada. The second is my health-insurance card, the lifeline...
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  The Joy of a 'Girl Racer' and a Wish for More
New York Times
   
  There are few places I can think of where things happen so quickly and in so little space with so many dire consequences if something goes wrong as on a racing sailboat. An operating room, perhaps. And, like an O.R., on a racer you need a team of people who know...
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  The Mobile Guide
Wall Street Journal
   
  It's not terribly reassuring to read an editorial in the local paper about what terrible drivers Corsicians are when, still jet-lagged, you're about to climb onto a scooter and race off across Haute Corse, the rugged, barren northern half of the island. The last time I...
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