Erik J. Altmann Email & Phone Number

Blaine, Minnesota, United States

• Internal and external communications with the Incident Management team:
• Manage external and internal communications both during major incidents and after resolution, acting as a focal point for communications to internal and external stakeholders
• On-call 24/7, overseeing communications during incidents that occur after hours or on weekends with rapid responsiveness
• Coordinate with internal teams to communicate incidents promptly and explain to external audiences how the organization is minimizing service interruptions and customer impact when major incidents occur
• Create and maintain documentation to support Campus Community functionality and processes, acting as moderator and overseeing Campus Community
• Work with business units throughout Infinite Campus on internal and external communication projects as needed

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Oversee daily newsgathering logistics and dispatch journalists and photographers to active news scenes
• Help lead the daily editorial meeting each morning
• Manages the team of content desk editors who execute the acquisition and creation of content for all platforms based on the daily news agenda and our newsroom's workflow. This includes timely updating of the station's.
• Help coordinate live and recorded feeds from multiple sources for broadcast
• Work with all news team members in terms of contacting news sources, following up with viewer feedback, and coordinating the sourcing and acquisition of external material for our news reporting
• Create schedules and handle time card approval for line editors, photojournalists, and content desk staff; responsible for 40 staff members' schedules and payroll

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead news team nightside in coming up with story ideas and gathering information on developing news stories
• Oversees nightside newsgathering logistics and dispatches journalists, photographers, and technicians to the scene of news stories
• Leads team of content editors nightside who execute the logistics for acquisition and creation of content for all platforms based on the newsgathering workflow
• Assign and coordinate logistics between news crews and live trucks; coordinate live and recorded feeds from multiple sources for broadcast and streaming on multiple platforms
• Develop and maintain contacts with law enforcement and fire departments, local government, and community organizations to stay updated on current events
• Assist news team members with story calls, setups, and follow-ups

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Supervise investigative and special assignment news content across all media platforms
• Help manage newsroom as needed, contribute to the editorial process and make solid decisions when called upon in on-call/breaking news situations
• Execute strategies for investigative and special assignment content that will engage and grow audiences across all media devices
• Responsible for evaluating investigative story pitches, leads and tips and contributing own
• Encourage and train investigative unit and general assignment reporters to advance stories through public records and FOIAs
• Arrange interviews with people who can provide insight regarding stories

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

• Research, develop and plan investigative stories or special projects
• Assist in writing scripts and fact-checking stories
• Develop content for stories that are produced across multiple platforms
• Manage unit calendar and coordinate schedules for multiple investigative stories each month
• Work with reporters to produce in-depth investigative stories
• Make source calls, check court filings and other government records daily for story ideas

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Member of KSTP-TV 5 Eyewitness News Investigative Unit
• Work with reporters on an award-winning investigative team in a collaborative approach to produce in-depth investigative stories
• Produce and construct stories with compelling narratives and hard-edged, unique investigative pieces, both long-form and quick 'weekly-turns'
• Assist in writing both broadcast and web scripts, and participate in script reviews with both news management and legal counsel
• Highly adaptable to fast-paced scenarios, capable of changing directions rapidly in fluid situations
• Research and analysis for in-depth stories, including analyzing court records, public records and large sets of data; and boiling the information down into simple, clear-cut ways for viewers and news consumers to.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage news crews and prepare assignments every day
• Coordinate news coverage with local and regional affiliates
• Participate in daily editorial meetings, pitching story ideas for the day
• Excellent time management skills, never missing any short or long-term deadlines
• Respected team leader in the newsroom with sound editorial judgment
• Monitor various social media outlets in real time for story leads and developments, track and manage breaking news as it happens, updating producers, reporters, and directors

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Investigated tips on government waste, welfare fraud, and scam artists, among other topics
• Used Microsoft Access, Excel and other software for large data analysis, and constructed databases from scratch by imputing existing data into a uniform format for easy analysis
• Worked closely with investigative reporters, including Mark Albert on the award-winning investigation “Cashing Out” that led to a committee hearing in the Minnesota Senate and a audit by the Legislative Auditor
• Regularly submitted Data Practices Act Requests and FOIA requests
• Hidden camera workAWARD & RECOGNITIONS:
• 2012 Upper Midwest Emmy - Nomination - “Cashing Out”

• Worked in a consulting capacity as a background researcher on The Bakken
• The Bakken is a feature documentary film that had its worldwide premiere this past spring at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
• Performed background checks and vetted subjects that were involved in the film
• Background vetting included checking court records, business filings, social media searches, and reviewing other public records, and compiling background reports on various individuals in the film

Hudson, Wi.

• Covered city council meetings, school board meetings, and other government and community happenings
• Published eighty-nine bylines over the course of eleven months, while also working at KSTP-TV
• Wrote a weekly column, The Capitol Review, which was one of the most read columns on the Hudson Patch
• Two of The Capitol Review posts (No End in Sight for Wisconsin Budget Battle and Freshman Sen. Ron Johnson Takes a Stand in Washington) drew so much traffic that both reached top of the Google News queue
• These two posts on The Capitol Review brought in enough web traffic to compete with the likes of the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal & other major national publications