Carmen K. Sisson Email & Phone Number

Mobile, Alabama

• Provide photos/text for regional, national, and international publications.
• Provide marketing materials for commercial clients and tourism boards.
• Provide copy editing, line editing, and proofreading services.
• Active participant in social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Flickr.

• Identify and spotlight cultural, educational, and religious trends across the southeastern U.S.
• Produce 1,200 to 3,500-word photo/text packages for deadline.
• Shoot and transmit digital images via FTP.
• Embedded with Selma, Ala. fourth and fifth-graders, producing a three-part multimedia series of their experiences as they traveled to the 2009 inauguration.
• Covered the desk for vacationing Backstory editors July 2006 to August 2006.Three-part multimedia series: http://tinyurl.com/9j9jd3http://tinyurl.com/7tjst8http://tinyurl.com/avtb8r

Columbus, Mississippi

• Oversee the newsroom in the managing editor's absence.
• Edit copy, make assignments and work closely with a staff of three reporters and two photographers to shape content and develop stories.
• Line-edit and proof pages.
• Develop self-driven, long-term and short-term enterprise projects, orchestrating the writing, photography and presentation.
• Specialize in human interest features, long-form narrative and takeouts.
• Covered education, economic development and military affairs while serving as a beat reporter.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Provided freelance photography for the daily newspaper as well as for the paper's quarterly lifestyles magazine.

Northport, Alabama

• Assisted with founding paper, helping develop ethical standards, corporate policy, branding, design, and community relations.
• Doubled circulation, receiving the 2002 Most Improved award from the Alabama Press Association.
• Coordinated a five-person staff, covering a 2,751-square mile area.
• Recruited and taught stringers, several of whom now hold staff jobs at daily newspapers.
• Wrote 8-10 news stories, one editorial, and one personal column each week. Beats included city council, county commission, education (encompassing more than 20 public and private schools), sports, and the local arts.
• Photographed, edited, and captioned 90 percent of the paper's photo content.

Mobile, Alabama

• Covered news, sports, and feature stories as a paid contributor for The Tillman's Corner News and Mobile County News during my freshman through senior year in high school.
• Provided two to three text/photo packages per week while working part-time as a veterinarian's assistant and maintaining a 4.16 GPA.

Journalism/Photojournalism

Activities and Societies: Society for Professional Journalists student chapter, Crimson White photographer, Chess ClubPresidential.

Advanced Academic Diploma, Advanced Placement Academic Track

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Math Team, Physics Team, Chess Club, Quill and Scroll, French Club.