Senior Journalist
South Australia, Australia
• Relationship management of key community stakeholders such as senior city government officials and heavy industry participants (including Arrium Mining, OneSteel, Bis Industries, Harsco, etc.)• Uploading articles for website suitability, updating facebook and social media sites• Story sourcing, investigation, write-up and photography under tight deadlines• Layout and design duties for all pages including news, sport and community pages• Customer relations management and key statistical analysis for newspaper circulationAchievements:• Helped streamline and effectively manage web traffic to online stories• Received various forms of positive feedback from local community, including Whyalla City Mayor Jim Pollock, regarding various stories• Worked on the mining conference feature spread for the annual South Australian Mining Conference in 2012, as well as following up with news coverage of the conference as it happened• Represented Whyalla News at the Lions Club Youth of the Year Awards in 2012