Joseph Cooke Email and Phone Number

Accepted a senior-level position to gain experience in strategizing with editors and reporters to craft visually compelling content that elevates the brand of this daily publication, which ranks among the 25th largest newspapers in America.

Contributed 125 images on average per week, working alone and with reporting teams throughout an 80-mile region. Provided photographic coverage of breaking news, features, community gatherings, Buffalo Bills regular season and playoff games, high school and college sports, and major events like winter weather (including historic 2022 blizzard photos syndicated to major outlets such as the Washington Post and Associated Press). Part of a team that won first place in the 2023 Associated Press Sports Editors contest for coverage of Damar Hamlin’s life-threatening on-field cardiac arrest.

Covered assignments such as daily news and major events such as the Kentucky Derby; work resulted in visual essays and regularly published photography of people and events.

Provided photography/videography coverage of breaking news, sports, and features, accompanied by writing compelling captions for regular stand-alone and story publication.

Photographed, edited, captioned, filed and published images on deadline. Earned five front page covers on the print newspaper. Covered politics, community events, feature stories, portraits and created photo galleries about the Phoenix Suns 2021 NBA postseason, which regularly gained over 100,000 views on azcentral.com’s website.

Assist owner with video and photoshoots. Pitch and solicit requests to gain clients for the company.

Managed, created, scheduled and analyzed content for websites and digital media outlets. Coordinated coverage of newsworthy events as well as breaking news by contacting sources and monitoring scanners and emails.

Selected text, graphics, images, videos and provided live social media coverage of lectures and events.

Served as a Capitol Hill reporter; regularly interviewed prominent politicians to gain insights and quotes.

Pitched and developed stories, wrote blog posts, created videos, pictures and other content for hard and soft news and special events.

Wrote and edited articles; selected multimedia for WOUB.com and WOUB Public Media social media channels. Grew following by 30% on Facebook and Twitter in four months by assigning reporters to write game stories and provide live coverage, and tagging athletes and coaches to increase their visibility

• Gathered content from interviews with players and coaches. • Worked with a team of beat reporters and editors to develop story ideas. • Wrote insightful recaps, listicles and features about local high school and college games.

• Facilitate and conduct ongoing Peer Mentor/Mentee developmental relationships with first year undergraduate minority students to increase and ease transition to collegiate life, impacting the university by improving student retention.• Encourage and promote mentee engagement in a diverse student community.

• Pitched ideas that generated in coverage for our newspaper.• Volunteered to serve as a beat reporter for less-covered sports such as cross country, writing weekly previews and recaps of meets and establishing relationships with players, coaches and team SIDs. • Produced coverage and analyses of cultural events and themes like race, gender, music and people.• Shot and edited videos about interesting and creative topics.

Conducted all aspects of story development for multiple topics including politics, business, culture, entertainment and sports. Enhanced readership and increased following by 40% on Facebook and 100% on Twitter by creating email database and triggering email marketing campaigns, showcasing our top articles and social media handles.

•Supported Columbus Green Initiative in ways such as assisting in social media execution, e-mail and letter communication implementation, and special event planning•Provided updates at weekly Mayor’s Staff Meeting

•Provided camera, microphone, and general support as a Production Team member for the City of Columbus CTV Government Television station during City Council sessions and other scheduled coverage events•Provided administrative and liaison support to assigned City Council member and affiliated staff•Accompanied assigned City Council Member to dignitary gatherings and other special events