Jason Kandel Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Leading afternoon and evening news coverage for a public-facing website while working independently with minimal supervision, collaborating with colleagues across departments to update and optimize web content.
• Curating the homepage, ensuring content is engaging, accurate, and aligned with organizational objectives.
• Researching and writing clear, concise, informative and captivating content on deadline, enforcing AP Style and editorial standards.
• Optimizing content, writing SEO-friendly headlines and using Google Analytics to track key metrics for maximum engagement.
• Editing the daily email newsletter.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Wrote breaking news stories and features that contributed to record website traffic.
• Developed award-winning projects and investigations, demonstrating strong news judgment on sensitive, fast-evolving stories.
• Fostered relationships with freelance journalists for in-depth news coverage on multiple news platforms.
• Problem-solved and collaborated across departments on web and applications-based projects.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Pitched, reported, and wrote high-impact stories for a national audience, using research and critical thinking skills, and interviews.
• Shaped and translated complex information into compelling and engaging content for external audiences.
• Kept up to date with news, trends and issues to regularly pitch ideas to editors at the international wire service agency.

Pasadena, Calif.

• Managed and led a team comprising a content specialist, producers, photographers, reporters, and graphic designers, ensuring high-quality content and design at Southern California Public Radio's website, KPCC.org.
• Led content strategy, set goals and communications plans and helped facilitate collaboration between technical and non-technical teams across departments.
• Developed workflows and systems to enable the digital team to handle increasingly complex processes for a growing multi-channel distribution network.
• Provided feedback and coaching to direct reports to support the team’s growth.

Woodland Hills, Calif.

• Oversaw the flow of news on the website and managed social media channels.
• Managed interactive projects, one of which documented the rising costs of police recruitment using Microsoft Excel.
• Managed relationships with sources from public relations and law firms, law enforcement, and subject matter experts.

• Used Microsoft Excel to study data and budgets for my reporting stories. Interviewed sources from various walks of life to create compelling narratives and content for the website.
• Led award-winning wildfire coverage and blogged about crime stories to inform readers about important public safety issues that helped cultivate a new audience for dailynews.com.

• Developed sources in law enforcement as a crime reporter.
• Uncovered stories documenting the rise and fall of Armenian organized crime rings in suburban Los Angeles.
• Broke news about fire department hazing and harassment cases.

Costa Mesa, Calif.

• Contributed to award-winning coverage of a Southern California city's high pedestrian death rate.
• Reported on the death of a man in a Disneyland theme park ride accident.
• Covered the business of City Hall in two Orange County cities, Santa Ana and Garden Grove.