Carla Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Universal City, Ca

* Fulfilled daily photo requests in a fast-paced news environment and collaborated with multiple teams to create editorial content for E! Online, all social media platforms, e-commerce, digital videos, and TV broadcast shows.* Input high volume of assets into CMS with proper permissions, metadata, keywords & nomenclature standards.* Created guidelines for securing rights and clearances of digital assets, tracking agreement documentation.* Delivered compelling visuals, pitched ideas, edited/cropped photos, QA'd images across the website and socials.* Worked with multiple photo agencies on licensing images and handling monthly reports/invoicing. * Managed team docs to maintain best practices: Photo Team Guidebook, new hire checklist, photo archiving, etc.* Helped train and provide feedback/guidance to editorial new hires and contractors.* Built photo galleries for major awards shows, news and fashion events, film festivals, obits, movie premieres, etc.

Playa Vista, Ca

* Photo lead for the Special Events team: Created content plans and produced slideshows for events including the Oscars, Olympics, Golden Globes, Emmys, elections, World Cup, movie premieres, March Madness, Grammys, and more. * Provided daily photo support to front page editors, selected and edited images for front page stories and breaking news, programmed multiple content modules.* Coordinated with product engineers on the testing of new publishing tools and provided feedback for enhancements. * Created text-on-screen videos for social media, often reaching 1M+ views.* Trained interns and contractors on multiple publishing tools and CMS.* Coordinated with our sales team on sponsored slideshows, tracked metrics and ensured all traffic goals were exceeded.* Created editorial calendars and how-to docs, managed photo archives and account logins for photo agencies, press sites, stock photography sites, etc.* Coordinated the optimization of news/sports/entertainment articles with related links, videos, and photo galleries.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Wrote feature articles, celebrity interviews and product reviews, copy editing, photo editing, published website content, coordinated photo shoots.- Assisted Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, accounting, FTP file archiving, digital asset management, managed intern program, managed magazine circulation/distribution.- Managed social media accounts to promote magazine content, coordinated online marketing campaigns and on-campus events, created monthly email newsletter, organized magazine release parties.

Los Angeles, Ca

Writers’ Assistant on "Standoff" (June 2006 – December 2006) Post Production Assistant on "Pepper Dennis" (December 2005 – May 2006) Writers’ Assistant on "The Inside" (October 2004 – June 2005) Production Office Assistant on "Angel" (September 2002 – April 2004)