Catherine Komp Email & Phone Number

United States

North Carolina, United States

• Engagement Director, managing the Workshop's social platforms as well as training and professional development programming and communities of practice (as of 8/2024).• Editor and reporter for weekly newsletter covering the North Carolina newsand information ecosystem (as of 5/2023).• Develop and report feature stories on local news in NC, including profiles, analysis, explainers, how-tos and Q&As.• Research and compile events, trainings, fellowships, grants, jobs, internships and other opportunities relevant for our audience of local news and information organizations.• Engage ecosystem stakeholders across the state to identify relevant contentand opportunities for the NC Local audience.• Create digital assets and manage social media promotion of newsletter.• Co-manage newsletter audience growth, retention and engagement strategies.

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

• Responsible for all music and talk programming on two broadcast channels, BPR News and BPR Classic -- combined, the #1 station in the Asheville market. • Oversaw all national and local content acquisition, scheduling and distribution.• Development and execution of programming strategy, with a focus on DEI goals, audience engagement and community information needs.• Management of $1 million content and programming budget.• Supervision, coaching and mentorship of news staff, hosts, announcers and producers.• Oversee and edit local features, series and specials produced by staff and community content producers.• Development and management of community engagement initiatives, listening sessions and content partnerships aligned with BPR’s DEI goals, mission and strategic plan. • Conceived and launched StoryCraft, BPR’s first youth-engagement and storytelling partnership.• Station lead for BPR’s community advisory board. • Co-led implementation of DEI action items and represented BPR in the Public Media for All.• Engagement lead for BPR’s participation in America Amplified.• Analysis of digital and broadcast audience research and data to inform content production and strategy.• Collaboration with Director Development and Membership Manager to execute four annual on-air fundraising initiatives.• Review and edit all business sponsorship copy.

• Managed, edited and oversaw distribution of all VPM News features.• Increased number of features from 50 to 120+ in three years.• Developed editorial standards, a pitch process, workflows and 12 month planning calendar for growing team. • Built a culture of mentorship by developing peer editing process and guidelines, pairing reporters and interns, and designing collaborative projects.• Developed and managed in-depth and award-winning cross-departmental series: Facing Addiction; Vietnam: Virginia Remembers and Where We Live.• Edited and project managed “Beyond the Numbers” an award-winning investigative station collaboration.• Editorial oversight of visual content including photography, videos, infographics and data visualizations.• Collaboration with digital and engagement team on strategies to amplify reporting and reach new audiences.• Supervise and mentor staff, including helping develop and achieve SMART goals.• Designed and executed emergency news coverage planning. • Designed and led storytelling workshops for refugee adults and teens.• Executive Producer, editor and sound design: Making Menuhin, a VPM podcast.• Launched VPM’s first recurring feature segments, Virginia Currents Radio and Learning Curve, reporting/producing nearly 300 feature stories since 2013.• Personally reported/produced or edited 20+ regional and national awards over in three years.

• FSRN Senior Producer 7/08-10/13. Responsible for 25 minutes of daily, national and international news coverage. Duties include: planning and coordinating daily coverage and staff-produced content; working with a pool of 150 freelance reporters, including those in conflict zones; commissioning breaking news and feature stories; editing reporter scripts and editorial staff copy on deadline; overseeing live broadcast of program; promoting content on social media; coordinating and evaluating story pitches and assignments; planning and editing special series and coverage; training new reporters and providing critiques to staff and reporters.• Freelance Reporter 10/01-7/08. Headline and feature coverage includes: civil rights, media deregulation, the US prison system, immigration, tribal issues, detainee lawsuits, anti-terrorism policies and more from locations in Portland, Oregon; Syracuse, New York; and Richmond, Virginia.• Substitute Host, Assistant Producer 12/06-7/08. Duties include: editing scripts, commissioning stories, proposing coverage, conducting interviews, writing anchor wraps, editing anchor ledes, and voicing and recording anchor scripts.• Documentary Producer, Editor. Served as primary editor for eight 29-minute audio documentaries. Reported and produced two original documentaries covering race and history in Richmond, Virginia and working conditions and the drive for union representation at Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, North Carolina.

• Conceived and directed a workshop and 3-month-long mentorship program for new program producers.• Conceived and launched a youth-produced, on-air community calendar.• Planned and implemented a recording equipment lending and training program.• Planned, directed and produced WRIR’s first local public affairs special airing on Labor Day 2006.• Planned, produced and anchored WRIR’s first live elections coverage in November 2006.• Coordinated, produced and promoted two-hours of local programming for the 2007 Annual Homelessness Marathon. Coordinated “listening session” of broadcast, attended by city and community leaders.

• Reporter: Published more than 130 features, articles and news briefs. Coverage included: state and federal legislation, federal agencies, constitutional rights, extraordinary rendition, warrantless surveillance, voting and elections, New York and Virginia tribal issues, environmental issues, alternative energy, disability issues, homelessness and poverty, electronic surveillance, RFID technology, and more.• Producer, host: The NewStandard Radio News Update. Conceived and launched weekly five-minute radio news segment summarizing the site’s original news coverage. • Staff member from 1/06 to 1/07: Part of six-person team that co-managed all aspects of news organization. Duties included: managing Letters to the Editor section; managing original content for TNS Weekend; reviewing and approving staff and freelance story pitches; editing staff and freelance articles; hiring staff; creating organizational and editorial policies; and conceiving and carrying out fundraising initiatives.

• Editor of ten-page section that focused on media issues.• Conceived ideas for content and reviewed unsolicited articles.• Worked with writers of all skill levels from story conception through final edits.• Arranged for photos and sidebar content to complement articles.• Contributed book reviews, articles, sidebars and interviews.• Producer: Radio Clamor Volumes 1 and 2.• Allied Media Conference workshop presenter: interviewing skills and radio news producing.

• Hosted and engineered four-hour Morning Edition strip.• Produced, edited and anchored six local news casts per weekday morning.• Daily reporter covering politics, technology, media, social issues, the environment and arts and culture.• Trained, supervised and served as assignment editor for two to six student reporters per day.• Conceived, planned and executed special features including a three-part series coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the German concentration camps, and a public affairs special examining the 40th anniversary of Brown vs. the Board of Education.• Participated in on-air fundraising and station events.

• Managed daily, two-hour-long news and public affairs strip.• Recruited, trained and managed a department of 50-60 volunteers.• Served as editor, news producer, reporter, engineer and public affairs host.• Created on-air and print promotional materials.• Directed and produced programming for elections, specials and live remote broadcasts.• Evaluated programming and volunteers.• Coordinated workshops and trainings.• Participated in on-air fundraising and station events.

Bachelor Of Arts, Letters And Science, French And International Studies

Mooc Certificate Of Completion, Introduction To Infographics And Data Visualization

Mooc Certificate Of Completion, Data-Driven Journalism: The Basics