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Award-winning multimedia journalist with skills to succeed in rapidly evolving media industry
• Use strong news judgment and broad source network to regularly break stories.
• Write and edit clear copy using AP style under nonstop deadlines for print and online.
• Shoot, edit and appear in compelling video packages for television and the Web.
• Build and update Web sites and produce interactive online applications.
SENIOR MULTIMEDIA REPORTER/EDITOR, MEDIA GENERAL WASHINGTON BUREAU, 2005-2009
• Helped lead successful transition of print-only Washington bureau into a TV-Internet-print operation serving 3
million readers and viewers in the Southeast United States.
• Broke influential stories across multiple platforms working under continuous deadlines while covering Congress,
the White House, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 presidential campaign and the global
economic crisis.
• Led training sessions to help colleagues produce videos, audio slideshows and Web applications.
• Created a personal finance column and corresponding blog for young investors that became the bureau’s most
popular feature.
REPORTER, ORLANDO (FLORIDA) SENTINEL, 2000-2005
• After starting as junior county police reporter, steadily advanced into more important beats because of high
levels of performance.
• Quickly became state capital correspondent, where I broke stories on a tax cheating lawmaker. Promoted to
state roving general assignment reporter, where I covered hurricanes from the front lines and was dispatched
to Washington to write exclusive stories on the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
• Promoted to cover the Walt Disney Co., the most important beat at the newspaper, and broke exclusive stories
on the company’s future, its lobbyists and the installation of antiterrorist measures at theme parks.
• Regularly appeared on television to discuss stories. My work also appeared in major national newspapers like
The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The (Baltimore) Sun.
• University of Maryland, M.A. Public Affairs Journalism, 2000
• St. Mary’s College of Maryland (Public Honors College), B.A. Public Policy and History, 1999
• Nonlinear video editing for web and TV (Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro) * Green screen video production
• Photography (Photoshop) * Sound editing (Adobe Soundbooth, Audacity) * Audio slideshows (Soundslides)
• Web site production and editing (Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Flash, content management systems)
• Database production (Access, Caspio) * Microsoft Office * Microblogging and social network utilization
• Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award, National Headliner Award finalist, Orlando Sentinel company awards, Media General company awards.
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