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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I work at the intersection of our Data, Design and Graphics teams to guide the production of data-driven visual content across the Star Tribune newsroom.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Work on daily and weekly digital storytelling, building interactives and data visualizations, while juggling some other production support work. I work closely with the Digital Design team, the Metro reporting team, and the Data team in addition to the Digital Production team.

Collaborate on homepage management, analytics interpretation/evaluation, and audience development, and train both fellow team members and the greater newsroom.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Teach "Interactive and Data Journalism," a 3xxx-level course, at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. We cover data concepts, including data collection, cleaning, analysis and reporting, data visualization best practices, interactive tools, basic HTML+CSS, digital story forms, user-experience design, and data ethics.

Greater minneapolis-st. Paul Area

Shoot and edit video [both long- and short-form, both fun and serious], manage newsroom video production and strategy, build interactives and data visualizations [and help reporters analyze data for stories], curate additional visual components for local and national news stories, collaborate on site development, help as needed with daily web producing.

Bismarck, North Dakota

I pulled items from the AP wire for North Dakota, made sure our local content was presented on our website, BismarckTribune.com, in an aesthetically-pleasing and understandable way, promoted that content on social media platforms, worked with reporters to develop multimedia content for their stories, built databases and special web sections for ongoing.

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

Reported on and wrote between four and six articles per week, including breaking news, crime, trends, education, city council and school board as needed. Took photos as needed. Copy edited other reporters' work, assisted in page design and layout. Managed seasonal home and garden magazines from idea generation to execution and printing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I managed five reporters on the Campus Desk, covering student life, campus groups and higher education. I ran weekly news meetings, line edited articles for organization and mechanics and met daily with about six other editors to put out the paper the next day.

While an intern, I wrote two to five news briefs per week and collaborated on projects, including a build-your-own-ice-skating-rink infographic, a Travel coverpiece on destination weddings and a Halloween doubletruck. While freelancing, I produced two Travel coverpieces: one on B&B getaways for Valentine's Day and one on a small fishing village in New.

As part of an experimental class/internship with MinnPost.com, I collaborated on four projects with database capabilities, including Minnesota's bridges and Minneapolis/St. Paul mass transit. I managed a team of three reporters to produce a project on Minnesota's Fortune 500 companies in the wake of financial collapse.

I was the student groups and student life reporter for the University of Minnesota, covering everything from roller derby to campus cultural events. The highlight was my story on a drama student putting on a theater performance in his dorm room getting picked up by The New York Times on the U-Wire.

M.S., Digital Media

Activities and Societies: Honors graduateThough all students at CUJ take a slew of reporting classwork, I focused my elective coursework.

B.A., Professional Journalism

Activities and Societies: Honors program, The Minnesota Daily, SPJ, LeaderQuest, intramural sportsAs an honors student at the University.

English Literature

Activities and Societies: Honors programI spent one academic year at UND, at first as a biology major with plans to later go into physical.