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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Evansville Courier & Press (August 2006-Present) EVANSVILLE, IND. • Covering public safety beat for daily newspaper with daily circulation of 80,000. Worked as public safety, general assignments and Web reporter for daily newspaper in Southwestern Indiana with circulation of about 80,000. As web reporter, posted breaking news directly to courierpress.com, shot and edited standalone video pieces, recorded and edited audio and posted documents online. Indianapolis Star (June-August 2006) INDIANAPOLIS, IND. • Worked on Metro desk and spent time covering police, politics, Indiana Black Expo and breaking news during 10-week reporting fellowship. Indiana Daily Student (August 2001-May 2006)BLOOMINGTON, IND. • Editor in chief, summer 2005: Managed staff of nine editors and 40+ reporters, photographers and designers, planned coverage and made final decisions on all editorial content for twice-weekly newspaper with annual $2 million budget and 8,500 average circulation. • Past positions include: Staff reporter, Web site production chief, sports editor, football beat reporter, campus editor, managing editor, Colts beat reporter, Web editor, city police beat reporter. • Served as campus editor on staff that won Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Crown (Spring 2004) and as managing editor on staff that won Society of Professional Journalist’s Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper (Fall 2004). Indiana Collegiate Press Association (April
2004-April 2005) • Elected to position as vice president of online journalism. Coordinated judging of annual state-wide contest. Sports Illustrated On Campus (August-December 2004) BLOOMINGTON, IND. • Filed twice-weekly reports about sports and campus news, trends and feature ideas from IU campus. Knight-Ridder/Tribune (June-August 2004)WASHINGTON, D.C. • Worked as reporting intern for campus desk. Generated story ideas and wrote news, features and opinion pieces for wire service. Gaithersburg Gazette (May-June 2004)GAITHERSBURG, MD. • Covered community news and features as reporting intern for weekly newspaper. HONORS • Indiana Collegiate Press Association: Collegiate Journalist of the Year, April 2006 • Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards: 1st place in organizational/greek writing category, certificate of merit in personality profile category, March 2006 • Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards: 1st place in feature writing for region five, March 2006 • Best writer, voted by staff, Indiana Daily Student, May 2005 • William Randolph Hearst Scholarship, April 2005 • William Randolph Hearst Awards: Personality profile (Sixth place, February 2005), sportswriting (10th place, January 2005), in-depth reporting (20th place, January 2005) • Hoosier State Press Association: Editorial/Opinion writing, second place, February 2005 • Served on journalism school dean search subcommittee, January 2005 • Served on Indiana Daily Student publications board, December 2004 • Dean’s List, February 2002 - February 2006 SKILLS
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