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Baton Rouge, LA, US

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

--Lead and guide the newsroom’s digital team through and beyond daily news coverage.--Develop and conduct newsroom onboardings and training to best equip journalists and digital editors to connect with readers and optimize their work.--Innovate, elevate and promote the newsroom’s op-ed content, including columns and letters to the editor.--Guide the.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

--Manage team of ten digital journalists and newsroom of more than 100 journalists in daily digital promotion of content--Develop and conduct newsroom trainings--Lead new hire digital onboardings--Strategize on digital best practices on social media, website curation, push notification, email newsletters and more--Develop and launch special audience.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

-Craft engaging headlines, social media posts, push alerts and newsletters-Optimize all content for the web-Facilitate breaking news

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

-Covered breaking news with an emphasis on cops and crime in the Baton Rouge area-Handled weekend coverage for all breaking news in nearly one dozen parishes-Developed deeper enterprise stories and projects such as homicide tracker widgets

Thibodaux, Louisiana

-Covered government in Lafourche Parish-Took photos and videos as needed-Posted daily to social media-Contributed daily content to Daily Comet and Houma Courier, Louisiana newspapers of the year for 2016

Tulane University

Editor-in-Chief, April 2015 – May 2016-Managed board of 30 leaders and staff of 100+ contributors in producing a weekly print issue and daily online content-Oversaw all content and business decisionsTraining Coordinator, April 2014 – April 2015-Developed training curriculum for all written and non-written sections-Held office hours to meet with.

Greater New Orleans Area

-Planned and coordinated grand opening-Updated social media profiles-Marketed and publicized updates and event-Pitched and developed gallery projects

-Contribute to College Media Matter website posts to provide the college journalist perspective on media topics and weigh in on ethical decisions, the changing landscape of media and more

New Orleans

-Write daily and weekly online and print content for The Advocate feature section and the Beaucoup weekly section-Contribute photographs with stories

New Orleans

-Created content for Health and Wellness and Arts and Entertainment sections online and in print-Assisted with production of special issue guides

Tulane University

-DJ a weekly radio show-Participate in annual pledge drive to fund station

Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL.

-Generated and pitched story ideas-Wrote articles for the weekly paper-Wrote a rotating monthly sports column-Photographed events for the weekly paper

Bachelor’S Degree, Communication And Political Science

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cross Country team (senior captain & varsity letter winner), Track and Field team (varsity letter winner), Relay.