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Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

PAPER/PLATES (www.paperplatesblog.com) is my hobby blog, where I create literary recipes and detailed book club guides, practice my photography, edit guest posts and explore my passion for food and fiction while experimenting with publishing on the web.

Chicago, IL

Built In Chicago is a flourishing startup that connects digitally-minded entrepreneurs and businesspeople. I cover news and events in the Chicago tech startup community.- Breaking news pieces - fundings, acquisitions, launches-- Event coverage - pitch events, awards shows- Take and edit photos to illustrate stories - Nikon D5100 DSLR- Edit other writers'.

Greater Chicago Area

CHICAGO GRID (www.chicagogrid.com, published by the Chicago Sun-Times): Feature-length profiles of notable Chicago companies and interviews with local business personalities.SPROUT INSIGHTS (social media strategy blog for business users): Medium-length (800-1000 word) posts about social media strategy, focusing on trends and offering analysis for an.

Greater Chicago Area

Associate Context Planner on MillerCoors business- Use traditional and unusual media tools to discover and deliver insights regarding the target consumer and media usage- Seek out innovative ways to interact with the target and get a glimpse into his mind using Internet research, social media and face-to-face interaction- Work on long-term projects as well.

Chicago, IL

Assistant Media Planner on CPG client- Work to deliver comprehensive analysis of available data in order to determine the best targets for our client - Use various reporting tools to determine the best times and places to reach our target- Provide consistent and extensive competitive reporting to keep our client aware of its position in the market compared.

Chicago, IL

Hired as Features Writer and promoted to Managing Editor within eight months- Determine editorial direction of the magazine with Editor in Chief- Contribute at least 10 stories (text, photo, graphic and video) per month- Generate story ideas and assign to contributors- Maintain editorial calendar- Edit contributed stories for length, content, grammar and.

Evanston, IL

Founder of this annual campus-wide magazine- Editor in Chief, in addition to being Design Editor for three years- Responsible for: Story concept generation, story assignments, fact checking, editing, page layouts, photography, graphic design, fund raising, marketing

New York, New York

Reported and wrote articles for Popular Science, PopSci.com and Science Illustrated- Additional duties: Story pitching, research, reporting, creating photo galleries and fact checking

Chicago, IL

Wrote short and feature-length articles for the website and bimonthly magazineAdditional duties: - Worked with another intern to spearhead the social media strategy of this new company, with a particular focus on Twitter- Daily maintenance of the Twitter account, as well as the creation of "playbooks" for the company's Twitter and Facebooks strategies.

Evanston, IL

Assigned feature-length stories, as well as shorter and multimedia pieces (such as the popular "Invasion of Privacy") to a concentrated group of writers- Regularly generated story ideas- Met with writers to discuss improvements and refinements to their stories- Edited feature-length stories for content, style, grammar and length

Evanston, IL

Wrote articles for this group of weekly North Shore newspapers- Conducted in-person and phone interviews- Pitched diverse story ideas

Bachelor'S, Journalism, Psychology

Activities and Societies: North by Northwestern, Undergraduate Leadership Program, Al Bayan Magazine, Muslim-cultural Students Association

High School Diploma