Kai Lincke Email & Phone Number

-Act as a bridge between The Ithacan and the Ithaca College and greater Ithaca communities. Build relationships with community members, increase engagement and seek feedback to improve our coverage-Promote The Ithacan at community events-Develop The Ithacan's first ever community guide, which includes standards and practices and responses to commonly asked questions about interacting with reporters-Plan and host open offices to encourage people to meet with our executive board and staff, ask questions about our processes and provide feedback or suggestions for our coverage

Write stories for the news section of The Ithacan. Special interest in stories that relate to education.

Take portrait and event photo assignments. Utilize strong composition skills to frame photos.Speak with photo subjects and collect information for captions.

-Edited 3–4 stories or pieces of content (social media infographic, multimedia, breaking news mini) for each week (worked on 2-week out schedule, so edited 9-10 things at one time). -Moved stories through copy, editor in chief and proof and worked with photo and design editors to develop stories’ visuals.-Added stories to the page in InDesign. Wrote captions and headlines.-Posted stories to The Ithacan’s website and links to stories on X and Facebook accounts. -Wrote larger/more complex stories (“the front”).

Ithaca, New York, United States

Wrote articles for the news section of Ithaca College's student newspaper. https://theithacan.org/writer/kai-lincke/

Ithaca, New York, United States

-Report 1-2 stories each week. -Cover the education beat: report on school board meetings and stories about education.-Attend weekly staff meetings and pitch story ideas.

-Research the top national, international, state and local news stories of the day and write a newscast to read during the 12 p.m. hour on Fridays on WICB Radio and on VIC Radio.-Report, record and edit news packages for WICB's news podcast Ithaca Now.

-Researched the day's top stories from the left, center and right news sources. Discussed coverage and suggested ideas for analysis in daily news team meetings. Posted 6 stories to the website daily.-Researched, wrote and updated voter guides about each presidential candidate’s position on top issues.-Worked on AllSides for Schools team to increase outreach with schools and build media literacy programs.-Managed regional news pages and gathered feedback to develop this beta feature.-Reviewed and edited blog posts and reports.-Researched, wrote and posted Headline Roundups.

Ithaca, New York, United States

-Researched the top news stories of the day and wrote a newscast to read during the 6, 7, and 8 a.m. hours on Friday mornings on WICB Radio and on VIC Radio. -Recorded the newscast and edited audio for the daily podcast "The Latest."

Wallingford, Pennsylvania

Led meetings, organized staff, planned photo sessions, laid out pages, chose design and theme elements, advertised the yearbook and trained new photographers, writers and designers in addition to regular photography and editing duties.

Strath Haven High School

Took and edited photos, wrote captions and copy, coordinated photographers, took portraits and headshots in the photo studio, scheduled photo sessions and designed pages.

Strath Haven High School

Took photos for the yearbook using a Canon DSLR camera. I edited the photos in Lightroom and prepared Google Photos albums.

-Started documenting the 400-member Strath Haven marching band through photography and photo stories as a junior. Recognized the band’s importance to the community, so worked with band director to create the official photojournalist position during senior year. -Photographed every marching band performance at football games, parades, assemblies and events, as well as some practices and spirit events.-Edited 1200+ photos per week with Lightroom to share with the community and on social media.-Interviewed several marching band students to write copy and captions to compliment the photos

Strath Haven High School

Edited content, copy edited and proofed stories, designed the newspaper and put everything into InDesign, coordinated with section editors, advertised the newspaper, recruited new staff members and taught training workshops in addition to previous responsibilities.

Strath Haven High School

Wrote stories, edited news stories, designed pages and took photos for the newspaper.

Strath Haven High School

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism, Junior

Activities and Societies: The Ithacan, WICB/VIC News, Oracle Honor Society, Society for Professional Journalists, women's rowing team.

Education record

Activities and Societies: The Panther Press; Yearbook; Marching Band Photojournalist; French Club President; Crew Team; National Honors.