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Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Asheville, NC

• Responsible for online and print coverage for college athletic events and news within Gannett’s Southeast and South Network.
• Produced breaking and trending quick hit wins while developing rich features and enterprise content.
• Generates an average of 100,000+ clicks a month as well as hundreds of online subscriptions to various outlets.
• Developed keen sourcing on both beats creating award-winning and exclusive content for readers.
• Established and grew company and personal brand on social media through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

• Responsible for online and print coverage of high school sports for the Western North Carolina area which includes over 30 schools.
• Created new and engaging features and enterprise stories that were regularly included in the news section while providing breaking news, stats and coverage of all high school sports.
• Ran the “Huddle” Facebook and Twitter page which has over 35,000 combined followers and helped cultivate an online community for high school sport fans.

• Lead high school sports reporter responsible for covering athletics throughout the Southeast Texas area including 40high schools.
• Created daily content, features, breaking news and in-depth enterprise stories which were promoted and featured inSunday’s news section.
• Proficiently used Twitter and other social media platforms to search out trending stories, promote current content on the Enterprise website and engage online readership.
• Responsible for updating the popular “In the Huddle” online blog to include videos, breaking news, weekly schedules and area sports news not included in print coverage.
• In February of 2017, was promoted to the City Desk. Worked on breaking and investigative news and features while helping manage the sports department.

Taylor, TX

Ran boards and produced shows while making sales for the station. Assisted with on-location sets. Developed the "locals-only" segment on the midday show. Recruited local artists to the studio, to perform live, resulted in expanding listenership. Became fill in co-host for the midday show. Updated

Communications Studies, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs, 3.0

Activities and Societies: Sports Information,Lone Star Lutheran, Omega Tau, Chamber and Mixed Chior, Shabbach Gospel ChoirGraduated from.

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication Studies; Journalism

Completed Senior Project: Journalism project on the social, natural, and psychological state of Bastrop after the Bastrop County Complex.

Education record