Amanda Williams Email & Phone Number

· Develop and lead 1A Remaking America, a grant-funded collaborative project with six public radio partner stations to find and bring underrepresented voices to national air. Edit all on-air and online reported narratives and scripts, digital engagements, and live audience events for the project. · Manage long-term editorial planning and daily deadlines while maintaining meaningful relationships with community leaders, reporters and stakeholders across six partner stations. · Guide 1A Remaking America producers and member station reporters in editorial decisions for field reporting, engagement events, and online and social content for the project. Mentor 1A producers through show production process and often edit and fact-check scripts, craft headlines and design web write-ups for 1A shows in WordPress. Produce breaking news segments as needed. · Coordinate special projects including “Water Week” in August 2022 and midterm election coverage. Prioritize climate coverage by aiming at least 50% of my on-air production be climate-focused. · Craft special reports on-air and online using solutions-focused reporting, traditional interviews and creative audio gathering for sound-rich radio narratives. Highlight diverse voices within every show topic in a fair and empathetic manner. · Pitch and produce hour-long broadcasts on tight deadlines, incorporating widely sourced audience engagement from carefully crafted callouts on air, through social media and via 1A’s text club.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Coordinate 1A national talk show’s 2020 election coverage with team of producers for live broadcast including producing weekly hour-long narrative shows in Oct. 2020 and chasing numerous high-profile guests for months. Develop new collaborative project with 6 partner stations to adjust for coronavirus pandemic limiting travel and live events. Produce 5 engagement-heavy talk show collaborations with partner NPR stations. Produce 7 live audience engagement events over two years for targeted, local audiences as part of a six-station collaboration with 1A. Partner with each local member station to choose a relevant local topic and reach out to the identified community. Research topic, book panelists, write scripts and edit the audio to run as a broadcast of 1A. Coordinate all logistics including venue, travel schedules and marketing.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

· Produced a live, onstage version of 1A in Ann Arbor, Michigan with an audience of more than 800 people. Researched and booked panelists, wrote a script and coordinated with a local member station to cover logistics of bringing a four-person panel onstage for a one-hour show with additional Q&A. Edited the audio to run as a broadcast of 1A. · Coordinated a live, audience broadcast of 1A from St. Louis Public Radio with real-time audience questions and comments. Collaborated closely with STLPR to cover logistics including additional audience microphones for engagement and live video options. · Crafted scripts, pitched show topics, researched and booked panel guests for a daily broadcast heard by 3 million people weekly. Edited and managed a daily podcast and reworked the live show audio into an updated evening offering. Organized digital extras and coordinated social media promotion.

Newport News, Va

Virginia Gazette Education Reporter Oct. 2016 – Present· Crafted 5-6 written articles each week with video for each piece, often with voiceover, edited in Final Cut Pro. Revamped VGTV, a one-minute daily news segment by each reporter, with training for consistency, radio voice. Live-tweeted all meeting and event coverage, and taught myself Google Fusion to create interactive maps to support attendance zone reporting. Post and monitor my stories on the company's Facebook and Twitter.Daily Press Breaking News Reporter Aug 2016 – Oct. 2016· Employed social media, police scanners and contacts to keep up with breaking news during a night shift. Wrote from the scene about fires, shootings and homicides with photos and video for each story; also was responsible for social media postings for stories.Daily Press News Intern June 2016 – Aug. 2016· Formed at least three articles per week, pitched story ideas, produced video and photo for stories, collaborated with other writers and editors on stories and ideas, and assisted with a comprehensive reporting project on the series of cold-case murders.

Williamsburg, Va

Served beer at a new craft brewery in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Williamsburg, Va

· Investigated two news stories in Tanzania, including travel overseas and more than 20 interviews, many with a fixer, and produced one longform narrative under the mentorship of a Pulitzer Center journalist.

Cupertino, Ca

· Presented potential store enhancements to senior management· Copy edited approximately 75 blurbs per week for grammar and accuracy · Analyzed and organized music data for accuracy and consistency· Evaluated books and music to craft original reviews· Attended cross-departmental meetings to collaborate on store features · Assessed iTunes features across media types for quality assurance

Master'S Degree, Digital Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics, 3.77 Gpa

Activities and Societies: The Flat Hat, William and Mary Rowing Club, James Blair Historical Association

Wildlife Management And Conservation, 3.7 Gpa

For the summer of 2015, I studied abroad in Tanzania with SFS studying conservation and wildlife management on the ground. Most of our.

International Relations, 3.53 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Boston University International Affairs Association, Undergraduate History AssociationAfter spending my freshman.