Hunter Atkins is an award-winning and anthologized journalist transitioning into the corporate world who is eager to increase branding through meaningful content creation, purposeful brand-awareness campaigns, consistent audience engagement, community outreach, data monitoring, foresight into media trends and assignment completion on deadline. More than 10 years reporting for tier-one, and a reputation for fact-driven yet heartfelt storytelling. Excels at building meaningful working relationships with individuals and organizations from Fortune 500 companies, major sports franchises, politics, academics, technology, law enforcement, nonprofits and everyday people with inspirational stories. Possesses expert writing in long-form and smart brevity formats, copy editing, storyboarding and multimedia skills, investigative reporting ability, clear creative vision and a global mindset. Prior to reporting for the Houston Chronicle, Hunter contributed to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Forbes, with other stories published by The Wall Street Journal, ESPN The Magazine, SI.com, NationalGeographic.com, Maxim.com, Newsday, Virginia Coastal, Men's Journal, Popular Science, VICE.com, and VIBE.Hunter got his first break as a 17-year-old reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times. He attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Hunter reported abroad for The Cape Times in Cape Town, South Africa, and then he interned for Newsday in New York. Hunter graduated college in 2011 and, defeated by the surging unemployment rate, he fled to Europe to run with the bulls in Pamplona. After narrowly avoiding certain death from a near-ramming, He wrote about his hair-raising experience and managed to impress then-New York Times sports editor Joe Sexton. He gave me a small opportunity, then a big one. I was off and running.Hunter Atkins was born in Manhattan. He escaped to Brooklyn. Hunter Atkins is reporting happily in Houston.
Listed skills include News Writing, Storytelling, Audacity, Journalism, and 10 others.