Drew Penner Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Editor of the Los Gatan, a community newspaper started in Silicon Valley during the pandemic.Reporter at the Scotts Valley Press Banner covering water quality, local events, City Council, business updates—and more—for this vibrant Santa Cruz Mountains title just outside Santa Cruz.Contribute content to Good Times Santa Cruz and Metro Silicon Valley.

Tofino

-Developed and hosted as a radio show on 90.1 FM CHMZ in Tofino, B.C., Canada.-Continued as an independent surf culture and electronic music-based podcast.-Created journalistic mini-doc segments, featuring original sound design and creative interviews.-Secured and produced commercials for multiple sponsors.

Greater Los Angeles Area

-Creating quick-hit posts-Product and event photography-Writing longform articles (print and online)-On-page credit formatting

Greater Los Angeles Area

Breaking news reporter for the country's largest regional wire service based out of its Los Angeles police bureau on a fill-in basis.Reporting incorporated into broadcasts, articles and social media posts by television, radio and online news clients.

1660 Stewart St. Santa Monica, California

Worked on KCRW's All Things Considered and Morning Edition broadcasts.Voiced and produced multiple voice pieces, including one that got picked up for state-wide distribution.Reporting included monitoring an active shooter situation for updates, and was first LA station to report a government official would to pay back campaign funds accepted in error.

1900 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, California

Started as Events Volunteer (including the Moth + Masquerade 2018).Worked as an in-studio Production Assistant, helping DJs in a live broadcast environment.Duties included updating playlists in real time for Spotify and Apple Music.

Courtenay, British Columbia

-Maintained an enterprising approach to producing quality journalism at this breaking news-focused Vancouver Island newspaper, delivering crucial reporting meant to shine a light on Comox Valley issues from economic development to environmental concerns.-Beat reporter for health care, courts and municipal affairs-Reported on issues cropping up at local Canadian Forces base 19 Wing Comox.-Stories frequently picked up for in the mobile, web and print editions of the Victoria Times Colonist and Postmedia properties.-Won 2013 Jumpstart Award, administered through Newspapers Canada.

Freelance

-Through action sports photographs and feature articles I produce shareable blogs for this Canadian online boardsport lifestyle publication.-Personally generated hundreds of Facebook likes and thousands of pageviews for original content pieces involving surf, skateboard, ski and snowboard culture.

Innisfail, Alberta

-Produced 8-10 articles every week as the main reporter working in conjunction with an editor at this 8,400 circulation weekly paper. Also contributed at least one article every week to the regional 24,000 circulation Mountain View Gazette newspaper-Reported on agriculture (including having an image selected as the cover photo for the 2013 Beef Breeders supplement), oil and gas development and issues surrounding the federal prison the Bowden Institution-Covered up to three different municipal councils at a time-Political reporting included face-to-face interviews with official provincial opposition leader Danielle Smith and Minister of Education David Johnstone, and telephone interviews with Energy Minister Ken Hughes and Transportation Minister Ric McIver

Calgary, Canada Area

-Top seller in digital revenue boosting unit based at the Calgary Herald with the ability to set up engaging multi-platform national advertisements on a cross-Canada daily deals e-commerce platform called SwarmJam.-Sold thousands of units of electronics, spa treatments, restaurant experiences and fashion services among other deals.-Involved in all aspects of the sales pipeline process from start to finish. Excelled at sourcing deal opportunities, negotiating competitive revenue splits based on product and service margins across a wide range of industries, wrote deal copy, selected imagery for full-page newspaper advertisements, and copy edited these ads in the Vancouver Sun, the National Post and the Calgary Herald.-Engaged consumers directly through three-day campaign management activity including promoting deals on Twitter, Facebook and industry forum boards.Training:-Completed 2 day Postmedia SPIN Selling workshop.

Toronto, Canada Area

-Top agent for Globe and Mail and National Post newspapers in multi-market subscription sales initiatives.-Responsible for making 300+ specific calls per shift, promoting the innovative Globe and Mail redesign in a variety of markets from coast-to-coast concisely and effectively, generating subscription sales in the process.-Helped provide training to new recruits on high-energy communication strategies, promoting maintaining poise and genuine interaction abilities of fellow sales people.

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for supplementing this online ideas and culture magazine with quick hit blog posts, original news and feature stories and arts and entertainment photography.Also used Wordpress CMS to promote fashion and lifestyle content from around the web.

Toronto, Canada Area

Produced news blogs, entertainment reporting and evergreen content for Transcontinental Media's online Woman.ca property.

Toronto, Canada Area

Multimedia journalism intern at Canada's largest entertainment weekly focused on original news and arts reporting, photography and web video production and editing.

London, United Kingdom

Organized and produced a longform journalism package focusing on the growth of female artists in the longboarding community for Cooler Magazine's website.

Toronto, Canada Area

Door-to-door and street canvassing team leader responsible for breaking in experimental turf with a crew of summer students. Also resigned and upsold current supporters.Spoke to hundreds of people a week promoting urban renewal initiatives and educating donors about new legal and political environmental campaigns.

Toronto, Canada Area

Charted fundraising area as a manager on the door-to-door canvassing crew for a variety of social justice and humanitarian Non-governmental Organizations.Responsible for training new employees on-site and maintaining consistent donation results.

Kenora

Hired on as a beat reporter at this community newspaper to cover health, education and provincial politics on a daily deadline.