Deborah Blumberg

Deborah Lynn Blumberg is a freelance writer and content marketer specializing in business and finance and health and wellness. She got her start at The Wall Street Journal, reporting on financial markets during the height of the credit crisis. From there, she worked in marketing and communications at J.P. Morgan. Now, she tells the stories of the people and companies changing our world for the better. Clients and publications include: The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, The New York Times T Brand Studio, J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Stanford University, MIT, AAA, and the American Heart Association. She’s the president of ASJA’s Washington D.C.-area chapter. She’s working on her first book about how her great grandparents helped to save a group of refugees from the Holocaust alongside a world leader. She’s also building a collection of memorabilia from the New York City department store her family used to own: Gertz.

info Subjects

General

Business & Finance
Education
Fitness & Nutrition
Health & Medicine
Lifestyle
Nature & Environment
Parenting
Science
Technology
Travel
Wellness
Government & Politics
Food & Drink
Arts & Culture

notepad Skills

  • Advertorials
  • Annual reports
  • Blog posts
  • Brochures
  • Case studies
  • Communications strategy
  • Conference coverage
  • Content marketing
  • Editing
  • Essays
  • Feature writing
  • Ghostwriting
  • News
  • News releases
  • Op-Ed
  • Profiles
  • Q&A
  • Scripts
  • Scriptwriting
  • SEO
  • Social media
  • Speechwriting
  • Technical writing
  • Web copy
  • White papers
  • Conference/meeting coverage
  • Articles
  • Copywriting
  • E-books
  • Infographics

notepad Writing Credits

The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Barron’s, Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, the Houston Chronicle, The Forward, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Keller Williams, AAA, Mastercard, GE, HP, the New York Times T Brand Studio, Boston Globe Studio/B, AP Studio, Rice University, Stanford University, Wellesley College, New York University, The University of Texas, Chicago Booth, The American Heart Association, The National Institutes of Health, The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, and MD Anderson, among others.

notepad Book Credits

Surviving the Nursing Shortage – ghostwriter and editor

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Manuscript Contest, winner in Historical Fiction

Dow Jones ACE Award for Editorial Excellence

Knight Center fellow, “The Economy: Bringing The Big Picture Home” program

Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism fellow

Selected Work

As author, unless indicated otherwise.

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The HIV epidemic is not over

Meet four changemakers paving a path for hope in the American South

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Inclusive Health Care

Through the Polsky Accelerator program, two entrepreneurs are growing their startup to improve health-care access and quality for the LGBTQ+ community.

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7 ways to build wellness into your workday

Working from home doesn’t have to mean sitting more and moving less.

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Cloud Care: How GE Healthcare Technology Helped Ensure a Safer Olympics

This year at the Summer Olympics, medical professionals in Tokyo had a high-tech solution at their disposal to help organizers hold a safe Olympic Games.

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47-year-old mom came home from a work trip and had two strokes

In her 40s, Stephanie Gerding had two strokes after busy back-to-back work trips. Through goal-setting and support from her family, she learned to walk again.

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Essay: Foster children face a tough journey - but one simple, household item can make it better

Children in foster care often transfer their clothes and personal items in big trash bags or even flimsy plastic grocery sacks. The problem isn’t trivial, even considering the other, monumental challenges these children face.

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Cutting Edge

How Rice transformed an aging Sears building to create an innovation hub that could help make Houston the next Silicon Valley.

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How to make paying rent more rewarding

Jain’s ideas about bringing loyalty to housing led him to found Bilt Rewards, a company that helps people pay for their rent digitally and earn rewards from it.

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A Little Good Goes Farther Than You Think

People are touched by small kindnesses and led to greater generosity, new research shows.

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How Math Can Save Democracy

A new institute at Wellesley supports education and research at the intersection of mathematics and politics.

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