OBJECTIVE
To use my experience and talents to obtain a position at a successful publication or Web site that it is on the cutting edge of media development.
SKILLS
- Long and short form writing/copy editing
- Knowledge of PC and Mac programs including Audacity, Final Cut Studio, QuarkXPress, InDesign, CCI and Avid Xpress Pro.
Current Work Experience
- Democrat & Chronicle Newspaper - Insider Magazine - Rochester, NY
- Produce between 5 to 8 feature stories per-week covering local entertainment scene for weekly Young Reader Publication as well as the main newspaper.
- Wrote stories profiling local residents and the events that effect their lives, both feature oriented and news
- Have interviewed over 150 local and national acts including Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes, Paramore, Derek Trucks, Jimmy Eat World, Goo Goo Dolls and more.
- Well versed in several multimedia applications including podcast, blogs, video edtingand audio slideshows.
- Finalist - 2008 and 2009 newsroom Gysel Award for the "Best Writer Under 35."
- Winner - 2008 Newsroom RIC Award for Innovation for producing "Radio Madness" March Madness-style tournament that generated more than 250,000 Web hits.
Graduate of St. Bonaventure University Journalism program
- Highlights:
- Editor of 'Buzzworthy' magazine - wrote, designed and edited content (including artist features, movie and CD reviews) for bi-weekly campus magazine.
- General Manager of WSBU-FM - managed Board of Directors for No.2 ranked college radio station in the country (according to the Princeton Review)
- Editor-in-Chief of Campus Activities Board online newsletter
- 2003 - DJ of the Semester at WSBU-FM
- Finalist for 2006 Hellinger Award, given to most promising journalism student
- Also carried a minor concentration in English
