Ken Christensen Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

King County, Washington, United States

On the Public Affairs team, I work across a 2,000-person government agency to document great stories about efforts to preserve the natural environment and make this region a better place to live.

Seattle, Washington, United States

I worked with documentary, news, nonprofit and small business clients to produce, DP, edit and consult on editorial and commercial video projects.

Seattle

I supervised a distributed team of four staff video producers and an illustrator. I led the team in making locally relevant video storytelling for our publications in Seattle, Portland, Miami, Orlando and Pittsburgh. I created systems and processes to manage publishing across multiple time zones, to ensure producers met their deadlines and to encourage collaboration between our centralized team and the local publications we were tasked with supporting. I built out an editorial strategy to align with WhereBy.Us’ larger growth goals, defined our style and standards, created graphics packages to unify our brands' looks, led pitch sessions, edited scripts and gave feedback on content drafts. We helped grow our publications' newsletter and social audiences in five cities.After testing videos on our publications' social media channels, we then developed a suite of underwritten and custom advertising products for the WhereBy.Us Creative Studio, turning successful Facebook and Instagram concepts into well-defined, revenue-generating series that allowed local companies to advertise in our publications. I was responsible for budgeting staff time and production resources toward these projects and, working with the sales director, I produced internal documentation and external sales material to help our business team discuss these content products effectively with prospective clients. We produced custom campaigns for clients like Vulcan, the Gates Foundation, the Miami Foundation, Getaround, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and more.

Greater Seattle Area

I led video storytelling efforts across four publications in Seattle, Portland, Miami and Orlando, producing content that served our publications' local audiences and custom advertising campaigns for brands looking to market to those audiences. I helped to lead creative concept meetings, worked remotely with colleagues to produce their video scripts, and served as lead post-production editor.

Greater Seattle Area

As a producer for EarthFix, I was part of a regional team of reporters covering the environment of the Pacific Northwest. I produced award-winning video features and then reworked the videos into radio and written versions of the stories to maximize distribution. These story packages were published by our local member stations Cascade PBS (then KCTS 9), KUOW, and Oregon Public Broadcasting, among others. They also aired on internationally distributed shows on NPR, PBS and PRI.A few highlights:- I reported about e-waste that was being sent from the U.S. to Hong Kong illegally, a project that spurred the investigation of a top Seattle-area recycler, revealed fraudulent business practices, and ultimately led to prison convictions for the business owners.- I reported on microplastic marine pollution, a project that became the most-watched video in KCTS 9's history with more than 1 million views on Facebook. It was also the centerpiece of a panel discussion at the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association's annual conference, was highlighted at the Seattle Aquarium's 2018 Lighting Talks event and was featured on the Dr. Oz Show.- I launched new digital initiatives, including pitching the concept for and producing the first two episodes for Mossback's Northwest, the station's only digital video series at the time and a first for its sister publication Crosscut. It is still in production six years later.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater New York City Area

At New York City's top local business publication, I was the first full-time reporter to use video to amplify our written content online. I reported and produced award-winning videos for crainsnewyork.com and worked with the sales and web production teams to grow our audience for web video. I did this while contributing regularly to Crain's weekly print product. During my time, Crain's video work was recognized by American Business Media, which represents business news publishers across the country, for making the "Best Use of Video" among peer publications nationwide.

Greater New York City Area

I wrote small business and real estate news, reporting and writing breaking news and feature stories for the weekly print magazine and daily e-mail newsletters.

Greater New York City Area

I contributed tightly written 200-word items to the weekly's "In the Neighborhood" column.

Greater New York City Area

I covered breaking news with a focus on New York City's real estate industry. I wrote daily stories for Crain’s daily e-mail newsletters and feature stories for its weekly print publication. I contributed a video to a project that was finalist in the multimedia category at the 2012 AABP Editorial Excellence Awards.

Greater New York City Area

I covered breaking news on the Energy Markets team, providing daily coverage of nuclear power production, natural gas, ethanol, spot gasoline, crude oil options and other energy markets. I also reported on U.S. oil refinery outages, breaking stories exclusive to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers. I was responsible for publishing stories within minutes of news breaking. Work is only available via subscription to Bloomberg Terminal:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-18/phillips-66-wood-river-said-to-restore-crude-units

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Business reporting and video storytelling focus. I covered the Bronx’s Hunts Point neighborhood for hyperlocal newspapers including.

Bachelor'S Degree

Focus on Law, Societies and Justice.