Christopher Collette Email & Phone Number

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Lead digital producer for 13NewsNow.com, writing original stories, copy editing reporters’ scripts for online, optimizing copy for SEO and curating national content. Work with marketing on sweepstakes and social promotions for shows on WVEC, and help maintain the station’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube accounts. Curate, write, and edit a daily email newsletter that goes out to a subscriber base of several thousand viewers. Help oversee digital strategy and hiring of digital producers. Create content for the 13News Now app and breaking news push alerts. Create and curate content for 13News Now+, an over-the-top live-streaming video platform. Create election result listings for both on-air and online.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Wrote content for NBC12.com and copy edited reporters’ scripts for online, curated national content, created online-only content such as photo galleries and databases using Tableau software. Maintained social media presence on Facebook and Twitter for the main station account and Facebook pages for reporters and anchors, optimized stories for SEO, encoded and posted video, produced live streams of local news shows and breaking news events.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Responsible for all news content posted to wtsp.com, oversaw small team of web producers and helped shape digital strategy. Wrote original content as well as adapting television scripts, media alerts, and press releases into Associated Press-style print copy. Maintained social media presence on Facebook and Twitter, optimized stories with SEO, posted video, photo galleries, and breaking news live streams. Became digital content manager in 2012 and made wtsp.com the number 1 local news site in Tampa Bay.

Responsible for daily am and noon content updates on www.nbc12.com. Adapted television script and wire copy of the top local and national stories into newsprint-style articles to be featured on the nbc12.com homepage. Produced daily e-mail newsletter sent to 3,000 addresses in the market, added video clips to the site and maintained local high school scores on Fridays during the football season. Served as backup to the webmaster during holidays and vacations.