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Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Writing articles on college and professional sports, including the Utah Hockey Club.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Watched more than 70 U.S. and international feature films and documentaries
• Submitted detailed coverage using FilmFreeway by writing synopses and giving critiques on technical aspects and overall impressions of each project
• Created a Top Rank list of films for the programmers' consideration

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Took lead in increasing girls’ and women’s sports coverage
• Created Instagram Reels and TikTok videos, as well as social cards using Canva, as needed
• Used Power BI and Chartbeat to analyze audience reach and adjust coverage areas where applicable
• Covered a high school basketball coach calling out racist behavior against him and the drama that followed
• Investigated and reported on the toxic workplace environment within a professional soccer organization
• Regularly filed public records requests

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Watched and rated shorts and features geared toward an LGBTQ audience
• Collaborated with a team of programmers during the selection process and focused on positive, uplifting stories
• Introduced a film in front of a live festival audience
• Wrote descriptions of films that appeared on official festival program

Chico, California

• Developed skills for writing in-depth personality profiles
• Tested new article formats to reach and grow online and social media audiences
• Composed and edited copy and wrote SEO-friendly headlines using Wordpress

Greater Los Angeles Area

Covered the NBA in the Los Angeles area.

Palmdale, California

• Freelance Lakers beat writer from November 2017-April 2018
• Regularly covered Lakers and Clippers practices and games as full-time staffer
• Wrote investigative piece uncovering dissolution of a girls’ basketball team that broke CIF rule
• Used Adobe InCopy and InDesign to write and edit copy, and design sports pagesDesigned pages as needed.

Malibu, California

• Help Editor plan content for weekly paper
• Managed sports section and covered all high school sports
• Managed newspaper’s official Twitter account and grew following
• Shot all photos that accompanied my articles
• Wrote community-centered editorials, articles about the local food scene, and covered the school board
• Composed and edited copy using Adobe InCopy

Malibu, CA

Northridge, CA

• Assigned stories to staff reporters
• Edited stories for online and print publication
• Posted stories and photos on Daily Sundial website
• Planned news calendar two weeks in advance
• Created dummy layouts for news pages of print publication
• Assigned illustrations to accompany news stories

Santa Monica, CA

• Writing stories assigned by Managing Editor and Editor In Chief
• Writing news and community briefs
• Writing headlines
• Conducting interviews with sources relevant to a story
• Writing listings for the Events section
• Updating movie times for the Movie section

Santa Monica, CA

• Creating a budget of story ideas for Arts & Entertainment section of The Corsair Newspaper
• Assigning stories and setting deadlines for staff writers
• Editing raw copy for grammar and punctuation, using AP style
• Writing headlines for stories that will be published

Santa Monica, CA

• Wring stories for The Corsair newspaper in various sections, such as News, Sports, Opinion and Arts & Entertainment
• Conducting interviews with sources relevant to a story
• Submitting stories to the respective editors on deadline
• Outstanding Reporter Award
• Stories published on front page on several occasions

Santa Monica, CA

• Researched television marketing and advertising news for the US and Europe Daily Brief Newsletter
• Pulled Constant Contact data for Daily Brief Magazine for analysis
• Wrote stories for the quarterly Brief magazine
• Writing descriptions for videos featured in Daily Brief Newsletter
• Writing biographies for staff members

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Created, implemented and managed a dynamic social media campaign, including Facebook and Twitter page creation, content creation, community management, and steady growth of Facebook Likes and Twitter followers.
• By leveraging client’s prior Twitter account, created a new Twitter account to grow a new, more engaged following for Trainer David. New Twitter follows were led to the Trainer David Facebook page to increase Likes.
• In 4 months, Trainer David’s brand grew a strong following that actively engaged with both his Facebook and Twitter presence, and it continued to grow.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Wrote content for social media profiles owned by local businesses
• Created editorial calendars
• Researched social media presence of local businesses

Culver City

• Created Facebook and Twitter pages for clients
• Consulted clients on the use of Facebook and Twitter
• Maximized and managed client’s LinkedIn accounts
• Created Facebook landing pages for clients
• Managed Facebook and Twitter brands and communities for full-service clients
• Created and implemented a company-wide Facebook Ad strategy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Journalism

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Guitar, Music Theory