Patrick Thibodeau

About

News reporter focused on high-impact, traffic driving, exclusive stories that connect with readers. Mentor, project leader, experienced moderator. Artful, analytical writer. Freelancing work: IEEE-USA InSight news, Information Week, Federal Computer Week * Areas include: Supercomputing, immigration federal policy, careers, and workforce; enterprise management, enterprise IT technologies, including ERP and HCM. * Recent journalism awards include: - A 2020 American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) national reporting silver award; gold regional, for news analysis. - A 2017 ASBPE national reporting award for a story about computer security threats; bronze. - The 2016 national ASBPE gold award in enterprise coverage for first national story on Disney IT workers training their replacements. - ASBPE 2014 national gold award for impact/investigative reporting. In 2015, bronze national award for data journalism with co-reporter. - ASBPE 2015, gold regional for enterprise news story profiling IT worker who trained replacement. - A story about Southern California Edison IT layoffs was read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the current attorney general. Stories have been repeatedly cited in national publications, including the New York Times. Contact: Work: pthibodeau@techtarget.com Personal: dcblogs@gmail.com Twitter/dcgov Clips: https://www.clippings.me/pthibodeau