Gianni Windahl Email & Phone Number

Tyler, Texas, United States

• Anchor and produce #1 rated 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts for two markets as weekend news anchor• Produce #1 rated 6 p.m. newscast Tuesday - Saturday

• Edit videos for small business owners' social media pages• SEO and analytics-focused web builder for small businesses

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

Gianni earned the opportunity to spearhead CBS7's newest broadcast, CBS7 News at 9. She produced the 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. newscasts and served as the lead anchor of CBS7 News at 9. During her time at CBS7, Gianni earned a place among the top performers on Facebook at the station and in the market every week by generating content for personally branded media pages with 5K+ subscribers.In 2022, Gianni's border report series won CBS7 the “Specialty or Beat Reporting” Award (TV Market II) from the Texas Association of Broadcasters. The series highlighted the impact of illegal immigration on border town ranchers and the people and resources of the local U.S. Border Patrol sector. 9 p.m. Duties Included:• Building a 30-minute newscast that promoted the accurate, fast-paced, and digital-first brand of CBS7 News at 9• Crafting a 12-minute-long A-block that paired concisely written stories with the best sound, video, graphics and set shots to ensure a fast-paced program• Tracking ongoing local stories through records requests • Building a network of official sources for exclusive news updates• Promoting the newscast on Facebook Live with team members. The newscast is also aired on Facebook to an audience of 1,000 to 100,000 people nightly• Generating special report content• Anchoring unscripted breaking news• Approving reporter scripts • Training several multimedia journalists and producers 5 p.m. Duties Included: • Producing a 30-minute-long newscast • Crafting a reporter-driven newscast that featured multiple live shots and routinely included in-studio and Skype interviews• Writing all newscast stories, cutting and attaching video and soundbites, creating graphics and in-studio monitor backgrounds, operating teleprompter and cueing reporters

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

Gianni served as a multi-media journalist at CBS7 News, the dominant station in Midland- Odessa, Texas. Within three months of her hiring date, she earned the station's only nightside MMJ position. She also solo-anchored the noon newscast for six months on top of her regular duties. Responsibilities included:• Pitching, scheduling, filming, writing, and editing news stories for air under tight deadlines• Crafting one package and several VO/SOTVO's daily• Presenting live shots in all evening newscasts• Re-writing daily story in AP Style and posting on the station's website • Scheduling daily stories to be posted on all social media channels • Maintaining an online presence that leverages algorithms, SEO, and analytics, to inform and interact with viewersExperience:• Specialties: enterprise/breaking/crime/government• Anchored CBS7's exclusive live cut-in of a service for a mass shooting victim • Gained exclusive on-camera statements from a county official in a story that went national• Developed sources and community contacts who provided exclusive story tips

Dallas, Texas

• SMU TV’s student-run, weekday live news broadcast that airs on Channel 19 in the Park Cities• Produced the show using Avid iNews and anchored twice a week • Created VO’s and VO-SOT’s for the show• Wrote broadcast stories several days a week• Rotated through crew and studio positions, including: director, technical director, video server operator, audio board operator, teleprompter operator, and studio camera operator throughout the semester

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• SMU TV’s student-run, weekly lifestyle show focusing on fashion • Produced news packages and segments for the show every week• Anchored every two weeks• Worked as a crew member once a month

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• SMU TV’s weekly political talk show featuring roundtable discussion • Worked as a crew member several times a month• Produced “man on the street” interview segments• Anchored/ Participated in the roundtable discussion

Arlington, Virginia

• Interned for the news director while attending The Fund for American Studies' Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, D.C.• Produced a daily political podcast called "Three Martini Lunch". Duties included: pitching discussion topics, cutting soundbites and importing them into Rivendell Library, readying the radio booth, connecting the co-host from National Review, editing the podcast with Adobe Audition and posting it to multiple online platforms• Conducted phone interviews with business professionals and created a financial video package for the Radio America and University of Delaware Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship website• Wrote, recorded, and edited 90-second political news stories

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Covered campus news events for the “SMU Live” column once a week• Stories were written on a two-hour deadline

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Researched and wrote several in-depth articles for the print version of SMU's newspaper