Resume

Sept. 2009 - present | Web producer | Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.

• Site production
• Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr maintenance
• Build and design multimedia sections
• Moderate comments

Nov. 2008 - Aug. 2009 | Web content producer | Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.

• Upload content to the Web site
• Monitor user comments
• Build Flash graphics and interactive maps
• Create and design content sections with HTML and CSS
• Organize information into databases
• Manage the newspaper's Twitter account

Aug.-Nov. 2008 | Copy editor/page designer | Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.

• Edited local and wire stories on the newspaper's universal copy desk.
• Sometimes designed inside-A pages and the front of the business section.

Summer 2008 | DJNF editing intern | The New York Times, New York

• Among the many stories edited during 10-week internship on the newspaper's national desk, three stories were on the front-page.
• Two of my headlines were recognized in the paper's weekly content critique.

Sept. 2007 - May 2008 | Part-time copy editor | Daily Press, Newport News, Va.

Sept.-Dec. 2007, Sept. 2004 - May 2005 | Copy editor/staff writer | The Hampton Script

• Story on gay and lesbian students was picked up by a national wire.

Summer 2007 | Reporting/editing intern | The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.

• Eight weeks reporting on the breaking news desk
• Four weeks on the Sports copy desk

Oct. 28 - Oct. 31, 2006 | Reporter | United Nations Youth Summit Review, U.N.

• One of 10 student journalists covering the first-ever Global Youth Leadership Summit.

Summer 2006 | Reporting intern | Grand Forks Herald, Grand Forks, N.D.

• About 80 stories, mostly on agriculture and crime.

May 15 - June 8, 2006 | Reporter | Scripps Howard Foundation short course, D.C.

• Covered politics and D.C. events

April 21 - 28, 2006 | Reporter | ASNE Reporter, ASNE National Convention, Seattle

• Covered the annual convention of editors

Summer 2005 | Reporting intern | Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.

May 2005 | The New York Times Student Journalism Institute | New Orleans

• Reporting and copy editing
• Designed four pages and all graphics in the 28-page paper
• Produced online content

Sept. 2004 - May 2005 | Copy editor | The Hamptonian yearbook

Summer 2004 | Reporting intern | Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.

• 68 stories during the summer – six on A1
• Two published photographs