Devika D. Email & Phone Number

Canada

I am part of a six-person team that supports our 16 Postmedia newsrooms with different facets of digital strategy and production: newsletters, data-driven audience strategy, editing and writing workshops, SEO support.Key Responsibilities and Accomplishments:- Designed and oversees Postmedia's mentorship program. During each cycle, I match participants in newsrooms across the chain, provide training, schedule and host workshops based on a myriad of popular topics and create… Show more I am part of a six-person team that supports our 16 Postmedia newsrooms with different facets of digital strategy and production: newsletters, data-driven audience strategy, editing and writing workshops, SEO support.Key Responsibilities and Accomplishments:- Designed and oversees Postmedia's mentorship program. During each cycle, I match participants in newsrooms across the chain, provide training, schedule and host workshops based on a myriad of popular topics and create, monitor feedback mechanisms for evaluation. -Created a network-wide social media strategy based on evaluation of current newsroom social practices. -Developed a network-wide breaking news alert strategy based on newsroom newsletter practices.- Specialize in digital content strategy by supporting in data analytics, SEO optimization, newsletters, regular evaluations of newsroom content strategy.Train editors and reporters on headline practices, CMS Management, data analytics, newsletter and engagement initiatives. Regularly produce audits evaluating newsroom's content practices such as explainer productions, content niches and social media practices. Show less

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

For two months, I joined the Regina Leader-Post as their interim digital editor, to support the newsroom with SEO, digital and data practices.- Piloted a breaking news strategy.- Piloted a personalized newsletter template- Created a tagging strategy to supplement data analytics using Parse.ly- Set up analytic reports/email alerts for reporters, editors. - Sourced, pitched story ideas to editor and produced stories to supplement daily content needs.

Toronto, Canada Area

Skills: Breaking News, Election coverage, Headline Writing, SEO, News curation, Local news coverage, Mentorship and Training, Wordpress, Chartbeat, Echobox.- Senior member of a team responsible for monitoring daily news flow on the national news website. Sources, develops and packages wire and staff content, supplementing with visuals and media to optimize reader viewership. Headline writing and SEO practices- As senior member, am often asked to oversee homepage and mentor newcomers… Show more Skills: Breaking News, Election coverage, Headline Writing, SEO, News curation, Local news coverage, Mentorship and Training, Wordpress, Chartbeat, Echobox.- Senior member of a team responsible for monitoring daily news flow on the national news website. Sources, develops and packages wire and staff content, supplementing with visuals and media to optimize reader viewership. Headline writing and SEO practices- As senior member, am often asked to oversee homepage and mentor newcomers and interns, with assigning and editing duties. - Pitch and write daily hits on a variety of topics — daily/breaking news, local events, political events, international news, science, environment, human interest, explainers — to either supplement daily news cycle or engage readers with captivating break from heavy news cycle and increase viewership.- Produced original reporting on COVID-19 pandemic, provincial/federal events and daily news. Have collaborated with other reporters to produce coverage on tight deadlines. - Familiar with Wordpress, Chartbeat, Echobox, Looker to optimize audience engagement.- Have been part of team maintaining live blogs for three election campaigns. Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

I built stories for the website on a daily basis, in the process learning a number of digital-related skills and gaining familiarity with HTML coding and WordPress. I've also written a number of stories, including those that I pitched myself. Attached below is a sample of my work at the Post.

I have written articles for the News department on various topics.

Contributes articles on a variety of topics on a weekly basis.

Mumbai Area, India

Wrote news articles for the news department under strict five 'o' clock deadlines. Topics were varied from covering current events to interviewing families from different backgrounds, working with an NGO for women's welfare. The experience taught me to work under strict deadlines and pressure as well as helped me understand how to concisely select the needed information for a story and put it down in a way that catches the public eye. It also exposed me to areas of Mumbai that I have never been… Show more Wrote news articles for the news department under strict five 'o' clock deadlines. Topics were varied from covering current events to interviewing families from different backgrounds, working with an NGO for women's welfare. The experience taught me to work under strict deadlines and pressure as well as helped me understand how to concisely select the needed information for a story and put it down in a way that catches the public eye. It also exposed me to areas of Mumbai that I have never been to, and to meet and talk with people with eclectic backgrounds. Writing articles for the features department allowed me to be more expressive in my writing, to exercise my ability to come up with attention-grabbing ways in which one can write about an event or review a restaurant, etc. Reference letter is available. Show less

Masters In Journalism, Journalism

Attached below is a website created by my colleagues and I on Indigenous issues in Toronto. My story is titled "Traditional Healing".

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And Economics

Activities and Societies: Associate news editor and reporter for the Varsity, campus newspaper

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Indian Certificate Secondary Examinations, 92.6%