Ashley Hopkinson Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, LA, US

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Built, launched and scaled the Solution's Journalism Network's first Journalists of Color fellowship. This transformative program was designed to connect and support emerging BIPOC media leaders. The cohort explored multiple facets of transformative leadership through editorial workshops, solutions journalism training and a bespoke speaker series featuring.

Supported five newsrooms in the production of health equity projects geared to transform the way we discuss public health in the United States. Newsrooms included: Capital B (Atlanta) The Emancipator (Boston), Reckon (Birmingham, Ala) El Timpano (Oakland, Calif) and The Los Angeles Times. The underlying mission of the health equity initiative was to build.

Greater New Orleans Area

Founding editor of USA Today’s first regional vertical, The American South—covering seven states and distributing across 28 + South and Southeast region newsrooms. In its first year The American South generated more than 800,000 page views with more than 800 instances of its content in digital and print publications across USAT South. Editor of Southern.

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Produced enterprise stories on state and national education issues related to early childhood education and bilingual education. Covered key state policy changes reflected in Assembly bills and the California State budget. Wrote report stories that analyzed and synthesized research from leading education policy analysts in the U.S.

Palm Springs California

Planned and edited news content as the senior editor for education, health, business, food, arts & culture and other feature sections for The Desert Sun News. Edited enterprise and special projects for news and features. Planned and led the editorial coverage for major events like BNP Paribas, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Stagecoach Country.

Macon, Georgia Area

Developed and wrote stories that highlight the rich history, culture and diversity of the Macon community and its residents. I wrote feature-length articles on art, dance, music, health, environment and sports.

The Center For Collaborative Journalism-- Macon, Georgia

Taught multimedia bootcamp to prepare students for digital storytelling. Led classes on civic and community journalism, news writing and cross platform journalism. Edited student work for media partners, including Georgia Public Broadcasting and The (Macon) Telegraph. Co-led digital media summer camps in 2013 and 2014 for high school students aspiring to.

The Center For Collaborative Journalism--Macon, Ga.

Edited student work and taught students to produce content with digital storytelling and social media tools. Matched students with professional reporters for shadowing, mentoring and media production. Produced original content and identified opportunities for joint work with media partners.

Greater Atlanta Area

Produced spot news and enterprise stories of global, national and regional interest. Wrote story summaries for broadcast members; researched, shot and edited video pieces as a global news intern in the Atlanta/Southeast bureau. Byline appeared in news publications across the country including, The Huffington Post and The Boston Globe.

Berkeley, California

Political/General Assignment reporter for Richmond Confidential an online news project from the UC Berkeley Journalism School. Produced, edited and published news content about politics/civic issues in Richmond, Calif.Senior producerHelped to lead a team of 15 reporters assigned to varying beats across Richmond, Calif. Edited and uploaded content for the.

UC Berkeley Film And Media Department, Berkeley Calif.

Led discussion sessions about the historical context of documentary cinema. Taught students how to deconstruct the newsgathering techniques used in film. Read and evaluated student papers for a class of 70 students.

Greater New Orleans Area

Reported on diverse health issues for metro section of the paper and website, nola.com. Developed story ideas and wrote about public health policy and national health trends.

Montgomery, Alabama Area

Researched and wrote an average of 35 metro stories a month; produced breaking-news web updates on crime. Monitored police scanner; developed story ideas and wrote for weekly publication: East Montgomery.

Gadsden, Alabama Area

Wrote news and feature articles for website, gadsdentimes.com; took pictures and produced voiceovers for online videos about homicides and fires as a reporting intern.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Journalism

Activities and Societies: National Association of Black Journalist, member. Freelancer list: MSNBC Grio, 2011-2012. Fellowship: India.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Activities and Societies: National Association of Black Journalist, former chapter vice president and founding member. Cynthia Tucker.