Leif Greiss Email & Phone Number

Hamburg, Pa, Us

Bristol, Virginia

• Charged with the collection, organization and visualization of data for a staff-wide project focused on two overcrowded jails, accomplishing this by making freedom of information requests to multiple local and state agencies and working closely with the other reporters and the copy desk to visualize the data, integrate them into stories• Through use of freedom of information requests uncovered that the Director of Schools for Bristol, Tennessee had received his doctorate from a diploma mill• Owned the Bristol, Tennessee beat by scooping competitors on major city government, education and business news through diligence and source development while providing timely, deep and informative coverage to readers

Reading, Pennsylvania Area

• Analyzed elections data to examine the effects of gerrymandering in previous elections and its potential effects in the 2018 midterms• Covered stories on election integrity for an international audience

Reading, Pennsylvania Area

• Covered municipal government meetings, school board meetings and community events while under strict deadlines.

Reading, Pennsylvania Area

Berks County, Pa

Tarentum, Pa

• Wrote daily news and enterprise stories for online and print articles focused on the area in and around rural south-western Pennsylvania.• Requested, collected and used data for stories about declining Community Development Block Grant funding to how volunteer firefighter companies are combatting declining numbers of volunteers • Took photos, shot and edited videos and aggregated tweets for online stories.• Worked independently and collaborated with fellow reporters to write and provide coverage for stories.• Conducted live Twitter coverage of an opioid epidemic town hall with United States Senator Bob Casey and Armstrong County, Pennsylvania officials.

Penn State University

• As a features staff reporter wrote hard news stories about topics such as gerrymandering in Pennsylvania to the number of sexual assault being disclosed by Penn State’s Timely Warnings system versus actual reported sexual assaults.• Provided timely coverage to events such as Election Day 2016 and THON• Wrote web updates for breaking news.• Used mapping software to display voter populations per county and how congressional district lines are drawn to show gerrymandering in Pennsylvania.• Gathered, cleaned and analyzed data for various stories and created or helped create graphs, charts and maps to visualize that data.• With another reporter performed web scrapes and requested access from Penn State Police Services to procure data on Penn State’s daily crime and fire logs which were then aggregated, cleaned, and converted it into a data file.

Penn State University

• Wrote various articles, including a story on a Jill Stein rally on campus and an in-depth piece on the safety of Penn State in an active shooter situation• Collaborated with a fellow reporter to live tweet a debate. • Independently conducted interviews.• Worked with other staff to increase Panorama’s visibility within the Penn State community.

State College, Pa

Penn State University

• Worked under deadlines to write and edit articles.• Worked in the field to procure interviews, quotes, photographs and video for articles that were published on a digital platform.

501 N 5Th St, Reading, Pa 19601

34 North 4Th St, Reading, Pa 19601

• Utilized writing and audio software to write, record, and edit features and news segments that were read on the air.• Reformatted, edited, rewrote, and revised news spots that were recorded and played on the air.• Participated in studio production by screening callers that wished to talk on the air.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Major:Journalism Digital And Print; Minor: Information Sciences And Technology

Activities and Societies: The Daily Collegian, The Tab, Panorama, PSNTV, Black Student Union, MMA Club, Honors Club (Formerly), Berks.

High School

Activities and Societies: The Tiger Times