Celia Jiménez Email & Phone Number

Monterey County, California, United States

• Reporting on agriculture, immigration, and K-12. Covering the cities of Marina, Salinas, and South Monterey County.
• Pitch, investigate, and write news and features for the Monterey County Weekly, for printand online ( website and newsletter).
• Develop stories using Spanish-speaking sources and increase Spanish speakers' perspectives.
• Feature news stories and coverage for the Spanish-speaking and Latinx community.
• Build relationships within the community focusing on Spanish speakers and farmworkers.
• Photographer and Social media (sharing and scheduling stories across different platforms) backup.

Monterey, California

• General assignment multimedia journalist covering the tri-county area:Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito.
• Investigated, translated, and delivered the news in Spanish.
• Wrote Spanish scripts for news stories and articles on the newscast website.
• Recorded B-Roll and video edited news stories.
• Maintained an online presence with our followers by uploading promotional videosand streaming live engaging with our digital audience providing information and answeringquestions.
• Increased traffic on Social Media platforms by interacting with our social media by followersanswering questions, empathizing, and providing information via Livestream and direct messaging.

Greater San Diego Area

• Assisted the 6 pm Yuma- El Centro News Producer.
• Wrote voiceovers (VO) and voiceovers with sound on tape (VO/SOT) on INews in Spanish.
• Inserted newscast CGI and managed the teleprompter.
• Fact-checked information and followed the latest stories’ updates.

San Diego City College

• General assignment reporter and video editor.
• Produced, wrote, shot, & edited Voice and Overs voiceovers with sound on tape (VO/SOT), and news packages.
• Produced the sports segment and presented news packages on set as the lead reporter.
• Production duties included floor director, camera operation, and chyron.
• Translated/ Edited stories and produced Newscene’s, Spanish Show.
• Covered transborder stories in the San Diego-Tijuana region for print and TV.

San Diego City College

• Investigated, wrote, and photographed news, sports, and feature stories.
• Wrote captions and organized and cataloged the photo archive.

San Diego City College

• Managed a newsroom of 12 and oversaw the production of the college’s newspaper.
• Investigated, wrote, and photographed news, sports, and feature stories.
• Was lead designer of the college's newspaper.
• Oversaw news production and maintained Online Content.
• Wrote captions and organized and cataloged the photo archive.

Greater San Diego Area

• Designed the icon of the SANDIS 7 application
• Redesigned the Sandis 7 Logo
• Vectorized Sandis logo
• Provided visual design advice for the Sandin 7 interface
• Designed the headers of Sandis 7 applications
• Photographed, resize, and color corrected images

Bachelor'S Degree, Design

Associate'S Degree, Photography & Journalism

Activities and Societies: Coyote News letter City Times Phi Theta Kappa