Résumé
WORK EXPERIENCE
- The Post — Athens, Ohio
Assistant managing editor (September 2009-present)- Responsibilities: Edit city, campus and culture news and feature stories; serve on the newspaper’s editorial board; exercise news judgment; maintain the master schedule; design pages; execute final proof of the newspaper (on a nightly rotation).
- Previous titles: Associate editor (June 2007-June 2009), campus writer (2007), columnist (2007), copy editor (September 2006 – June 2007)
- News & Record — Greensboro, N.C.
Copy-editing intern (June 2009-August 2009)- Responsibilities: Editing stories for grammar, style, cohesion and length; writing headlines.
- Purebred Publishing — Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Intern (June – Aug. 2008)- Responsibilities: Designing ads, formatting pages and doing various odd tasks for three dairy trade association magazines: the Guernsey Breeders’ Journal, the Ayrshire Digest and the Brown Swiss Bulletin
- Lancaster Eagle-Gazette — Lancaster, Ohio
Freelance writer (December 2007- January 2008, June – August 2008)- Responsibilities: Previewing or covering local events and meetings, conducting interviews, writing news, writing features, telecommuting by phone and e-mail.
EDUCATION
- Ohio University — Athens, Ohio (September 2006 – present)
- Earning a Bachelor’s degree in journalism, concentrating in economics
GPA: 3.567/4.000 Journalism GPA: 3.785/4.000
- Earning a Bachelor’s degree in journalism, concentrating in economics
- Ohio University — Lancaster, Ohio (September 2004 – June 2006)
- Post-Secondary Enrollment Options, earning both high-school and college credit
LEADERSHIP AND AWARDS
- Treasurer and founding member of OU’s chapter of Ed2010, a networking group focused on magazines
- Executive editor at an award-winning newspaper: The Post, Best Daily College Newspaper, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists (2008, 2009)
- Edited and supervised award-winning editorial writers: The Post, 1st and 2nd place Best College Opinion Writing, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists (2008)
- Cortland Anderson Scholarship, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University (2007)
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
- Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator; Apple iMovie, iPhoto; Microsoft Word, Powerpoint; Quark XPress.
- Social media: Blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed. Able to apply this knowledge to similar sites.
- Digital cameras, audio recorders and video recorders
- Bloomberg terminal.