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SKILLS:

Reporting / Writing / Copy Editing / Photojournalism and Photo Editing / Audio and Video Recording and Editing (Final Cut, AVID, iMovie, Audacity, Soundslides, Vuvox) / Page Layout / Basic HTML and CSS / Content Management Systems / Google Maps / WordPress / Blogger / Social Networking and Sharing (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare) / A great laugh

WORK HISTORY:

Web Producer
89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Pasadena, Calif.
November 2010-present

• Responsible for copy editing radio stories, publishing and promoting stories to the front page, and overall content management on the KPCC website.
• Produce audio slideshows and videos either as standalone features or to accompany radio stories.

Digital Media Intern
89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Pasadena, Calif.
September-November 2010

• A member of the team responsible for uploading content, managing the overall look of and building multimedia elements for the online component of The Madeleine Brand Show, a weekday morning news magazine program.

Executive Producer / Staff Writer / Mulitmedia Producer
NeonTommy.com
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Los Angeles, Calif.
August 2009-May 2010

• Staff writer and multimedia producer for NeonTommy.com, USC Annenberg’s digital news site. (Aug. 2009 – May 2010).
• Executive Producer (Dec. 2009 – May 2010): Responsible for copy editing, monitoring comments, promoting stories to the front page and managing the overall look of the site.
• Continuing contributor.

Editorial Intern
Weekend Argus
Cape Town, South Africa
June-July 2010

• Old-school general assignment reporter for the Weekend Argus, a Saturday and Sunday newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. (I was one of 16 graduate students to spend two months in Cape Town as part of the International Internships in the Media program through USC Annenberg.)
• Throughout the two months, I kept a blog about the experience, which includes clips of my work and numerous photo galleries.

Arts and Entertainment Lead Writer
Yakima Herald-Republic
Yakima, Wash.
May 2003-July 2009

• Responsible for planning local coverage for the Friday A&E section, On Magazine.
• Develop, research and write arts- and entertainment-related enterprise projects.
• Develop accompanying art with a photographer, illustrator or submitted pieces.
• Write a weekly column titled Guilty Pleasures.
• Edit A&E event calendars.
• Present a weekly, 90-second morning radio spot highlighting the weekend’s activities.
• Responsible for the On Magazine blog, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Flickr sites.

Lifestyle Editor
Argus Observer
Ontario, Ore.
August 2002-May 2003

• Conduct interviews and write articles on local arts and entertainment events.
• Write the Sunday feature story, develop accompanying art and paginate the three-page Sunday lifestyle section.
• Write a weekly column ranging anywhere from my views on local topics to cultural critiques and considerations.
• Paginate the daily lifestyle page.

Education Reporter
Argus Observer
Ontario, Ore.
December 2001-August 2002

• Conduct interviews and compile research for daily articles related to local and regional educational issues, as well as human-interest features and general assignments.
• Compile and type daily obituaries and birth announcements.
• Paginate pages.
• Contribute to special sections.
• Regularly act as photographer and reporter on story assignments.

EDUCATION:

Currently working towards my M.A. in online journalism, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Los Angeles, Calif. Projected graduation date: May 2011.
• USC Theodore Kruglak International Scholarship recipient for international journalism. (2010)

B.A. in journalism, magna cum laude, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash. (2002)
Minor: theater.
• Dean’s Scholar in the College of Arts and Humanities. (2002)
• Recipient of the inaugural College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Alumni Recognition Award, Communications Department. (2007)

FELLOWSHIPS:

• Selected member of the ONA10 Student Newsroom, Online News Association National Conference, Washington D.C., Oct. 28-30, 2010.
• Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop, UC Berkeley, 2008. (Final workshop project)
• National Endowment for the Arts fellow in the inaugural Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York City, 2004.
• Journalism, Education and the Public Good Fellowship from the Institute for Educational Inquiry, Seattle, 2002/2003.

SEMINARS / CONFERENCES:

• Highway Africa Conference: African Voices in the Global Media Space / Captivate Student Media Conference, Grahamstown, South Africa, July 2010.
• Carnegie Journalism Summit, “A Way Forward: Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier,” sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in partnership with The Paley Center for Media, New York City, February 2010. (Invited as a student representative from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.)
• 140 Character Conference: Exploring the State of Now, Los Angeles, 2009.
• Drilling Down: A daylong symposium exploring the latest developments in online publishing, sponsored by MSNBC.com, Online News Association, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the News Tribune (Tacoma) and Society of Professional Journalists, Seattle, 2007.
• Northwest Video Workshop, hosted by the Yakima Herald-Republic, Yakima, Wash., 2007.
• The Society of Professional Journalists Region 10 Conference, Kennewick, Wash., 2006.
• The Poynter Institute’s National Writers Workshop, Portland, Ore., 2006.
• The Poynter Institute’s National Writers Workshop, Seattle, 2004.

VOLUNTEER:

• Mentor for “Reporting Paarl,” a two-day multimedia workshop for young journalists at the Kinoinia Community Centre in Paarl, South Africa. June 2010.
• Mentor for “The Valley Workshop: Stories in Your Backyard,” an annual teen journalism workshop presented by the Yakima Herald-Republic. 2003, 2004, 2008.
• Member of the Media Mecca team charged with helping to register and acclimate journalists, filmmakers and photographers both off- and on-site at Burning Man, an annual counter-culture event that draws more than 45,000 people from around the world. 2003-present.