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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Cover real estate and housing, balancing longer-term enterprise projects with breaking news stories.• Write about issues affecting housing and affordability in Northeast Ohio.• Shoot photo and video; create multimedia content for the website.• Covered criminal and civil cases in the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse in Cleveland and other federal courts throughout Ohio for more than five years.• Documented and analyzed major civil cases, including the multidistrict litigation against opioid companies, police use-of-force lawsuits and the Justice Department’s efforts to reform the Cleveland Division of Police.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Covered legislative bills, court cases, attorney discipline and issues affecting the practice of law in Wisconsin.• Wrote in-depth pieces for a monthly magazine while producing dailies for the website.• Covered the State Bar of Wisconsin and its Board of Governors.• Ran “Court Gestures” blog, highlighting interesting legal tidbits.

Pensacola, Florida Area

• Covered breaking news and court proceedings in the Florida Panhandle.• Produced enterprise pieces dissecting crime statistics, prisoner rehabilitation and judicial temperament; used video and social media to complement storytelling.

Houma, Louisiana

• Reported on breaking news in Bayou Country; followed criminal and civil cases that affected Terrebonne, Lafourche and Assumption parishes.• Wrote in-depth pieces questioning decisions by elected officials, including a sheriff who allowed a camera crew to film his deputies for a staged reality TV show.

Monroe, Louisiana Area

• Designed pages and section fronts for newspapers in Monroe, Lafayette, Shreveport, Alexandria and Opelousas, LA.• Copy edited and wrote print and web headlines for news, sports and features stories.

Illinois

• Created the site as a means of publishing work.• Arranged interviews, often recording them to post them on the site.• Arranged to receive promotional materials and concert coverage.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Helped find, write and edit music stories relating to Champaign-Urbana.• Helped compile "The Overture," a listing to preview upcoming concerts in the area.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Served as assistant news editor for The Daily Illini, assigning stories and editing for content and grammar.• Served as night editor for The Daily Illini, aiding in design and copy editing, checking final versions of pages and making sure the paper dropped on time.• Served as staff writer for The Daily Illini, writing for the science and technology and city beats.• Contributed to the On the Town features blog, doing album reviews, concert previews and covering music festivals with national acts.• Wrote album reviews, took photographs, did interviews and wrote concert previews and reviews for Buzz and the217.com.

Greater Chicago Area

• Wrote articles for the "Time Out" section, previewing upcoming concerts in Chicago and the surrounding area.• Profiled bands, performing interviews and listening to music to provide the most accurate portrayal.

• Created music mixes and wrote stories with them, choosing songs to progress a storyline about certain themes.

Greater Chicago Area

• Covered events, town hall meetings, music reviews, police blotters, breaking news and features.• Wrote a weekly series about interesting topics in each city the news group covered.• Interviewed prominent entertainers, including The Flaming Lips, Rick Springfield and Ted Nugent.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

• Wrote more than 100 articles in two semesters, on politics, medicine, university matters and breaking news.• Worked as a beat reporter, covering the University Program Board.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

• Hosted and organized two specialty shows, selecting music and programming.• Wrote and recorded promotional liners for specialty shows.

B.S., News-Editorial Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Daily IlliniI transferred to U of I my junior year after spending two years at Illinois State University.

B.A. In Journalism (In Progress When Left), News-Editorial Journalism, English

Activities and Societies: The Daily Vidette, WZND 106.1, The Documentary Project Student Association

Education record