Lucy Atkinson Email & Phone Number

Dekalb, Il, Us

Continue responsibilities of the Assistant Opinion Editor position at a greater scale, editing stories and managing the opinion section’s cartoonists and columnistsLead Editorial Board meetings to pitch topics, assign deadlines and manage editsProvide assistance and mentorship to writers and collaborate with other editors on a daily newsletter (TLDR)

Assisted the Opinion Editor during staff meetings: assigning stories to writers, pitching completed articles to the management board and managing incoming editsEdited the work of a 13-writer section, searching for and correcting grammatical, stylistic and content-related errors; publish completed stories on the Northern Star webpageUtilized Airtable to organize in-progress stories and plan for upcoming assignments

Dekalb, Illinois, United States

Review resumes, cover letters and Huskies Get Hired accounts for visiting students and answer related questionsPromote Career Services’ resources and services at various tabling eventsAssist with marketing materials, newsletters and distribution

Wrote two columns weekly about various political and environmental subjectsInterviewed students, professors and experts on relevant issues to gather contentAttended staff meetings to pitch story ideas and collaborate with peers

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism

Bachelor Of Science, Earth, Atmosphere And Environment

Planetary Sciences Emphasis | GPA: 4.0/4.0

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