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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Writing 300-1000 word stories about real estate, events and small businesses in Austin, including curated event round-ups for holidays and cross-market content.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Auditing and curating high-performing content for the top 40 Google News stories for the United States and India; providing and moderating the most up-to-date information available for news events and contributing 24/7.
• Adhere to AP style to ensure accuracy across Google’s search engine.
• Submit editorial concerns to curators to improve consistency, accuracy and readability of Google News headlines.
• Collaborated with other auditors to pilot new workflows and tools.
• Fact-checked 250 COVID-19-related question and answer topics per day for Google Search from 2021 to mid-2022.
• Provided 24/7 coverage of major news events, such as the 2020 election, the 2021 insurrection and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Austin, Texas

Curated newscasts and podcasts from NPR and TV news outlets, segmented and edited individual stories, wrote headlines and uploaded them to Google’s News on Assistant product. Quality checked other curators’ stories before publication. Performed content reviews of new media outlets to add to the workflow.

Abilene, Texas

Overseeing all media published to Optimist website and social media.Training videographers and managing camera equipment.Participating in board meetings to discuss the weekly editorial.Sending weekly assignments to videographers.Producing and editing VOs or VOSOTs about news stories happening on or off campus.Writing columns.

Abilene, Texas

Helping Video Director train videographers how to film and edit videos.Assisting Video Director with publishing videos to Optimist YouTube, social media and website.Producing and editing VOs or VOSOTs about news stories happening on or off campus.

Abilene, Texas

Producing and editing VOs or VOSOTs about news stories happening on or off campus.

Abilene, Texas

Conducting interviews and editing versions to play on-air.Downloading shows from servers and websites, transcoding the audio files, renaming them and inserting them into BSI Simian Automation.Voice tracking continuity for evening and weekend shows. Producing “This Week in Abilene,” an on-air events calendar.

Abilene, Texas

Host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered; announcing news, segment previews, weather and events on air.

Abilene, Texas

Conducted weekly editorial meetings to discuss plans for each show.Created rundowns for co-hosts to fill with script.Assistant director during show taping.Edited two versions of the show and sent the broadcast version to KTXS, the local ABC affiliate station.Produced show features.Web producer for media assets; wrote headlines, descriptions and produced.

Dripping Springs & Abilene, Texas

Austin, Texas Area

Produced web posts of show segments, transcribed segment audio and sourced featured images. Produced, wrote and edited interviews or original reported stories that aired on the show. Collaborated with newscast host Becky Fogel to produce stories for the News Roundup.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Multimedia, Gpa: 3.89

Activities and Societies: The Shinnery Review, Wildcats for Sustainability, Red Thread Movement, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Color Guard (2014-2016), Fashion Club, Photography Club, Tiger Daily News (2013-2016), 2014 Dating Violence Mock.