Resume
Experience
Online Producer (February 2005 - present)
KnoxNews.com, Knoxville News Sentinel (Tenn.)
• Daily responsibilities: Update and maintain KnoxNews.com and its sister sites with breaking news, related stories, photos, links, polls and other content
• Produce projects using video, audio and photos from the field as stand-alone Web content and as collaborative projects with reporters
• Teach print reporters techniques for using video and audio equipment; edit and produce reporter content
• Perform site maintenance; respond to reader inquiries and emails
• Formerly wrote, recorded and edited a daily audio podcast that presented news in an off-beat, sassy manner (Nov. 2006-June 2007)
Awards while at KnoxNews.com:
• 2008 NAA Digital Edge Award for Best News Site
• 2008 NAA Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative User Participation (School Matters site)
• 2008 NAA Digital Edge Award for Best Site Design
• Outstanding Achievement Award for individual employee, November 2007
• 2007 Video Challenge winner of Scripps internal competition. The prize was a complete hi-def camera kit for this video, co-producer with a business reporter.
• 2006 Digital Edge for best use of interactive media for RandomThis video-blog
• 2006 Third place Green Eyeshade Award for Best Use of Multimedia for “My Super Sweet 15″ video package
• 2005 Digital Edge Award for best site design and architecture, KnoxNews.com
• 2005 Best of Scripps Quarterly Award for RandomThis video-blog
• 2005 Golden Press Card Award (East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists) for “Making the Band” multimedia package
Instructor, The University of Tennessee (Jan. 2008-present)
Co-instructor for Journalism and Electronic Media 222, an introduction to online journalism
• Create coursework on multimedia tools and trends and teach students how to write and produce multimedia stories
• Student work may be found on the JEM222 class blog and the Tennessee Journalist
Internships/other experience
• Political correspondent for York Daily Record and Hanover Evening Sun - Washington, D.C., Fall 2004
• Investigation intern for CBS 2 WBBM-TV - Chicago, IL, Summer 2004
• Member of a new product development team that created a Web-driven teen publication, Your Mom, to attract and maintain readership for Lee Enterprises and The Quad-City Times - Medill School of Journalism, Spring 2004
• Legal reporter, Medill News Service - Chicago, Summer 2004
• Editorial intern, temporary employee, The Press Of Atlantic City - Pleasantville, NJ, Fall 2001 - Summers 2002-03
• Copy Editor & staff writer, The Daily Orange - Syracuse, NY, Fall 2001 – Spring 2003
Education
Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism
Master of Science in Journalism with New Media concentration, December 2004
Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Bachelor of Arts in magazine journalism and English, May 2003
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Dean’s scholar; Dean’s List every semester
Skills
• Video equipment — Canon XL1, GL2, Sony Cybershot
• Video editing — Final Cut Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere
• Audio recording equipment — iRiver audio recorder
• Audio editing — Adobe Audition, Audacity
• Web design — Flash, Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, Dreamweaver, HomeSite, HTML, CSS