Lindsey Mckissick Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Greater Denver Area

• Responsible for creating/writing/assigning/editing up to 40 stories per month with a co-editor in the Front Range and Scene sections of the magazine
• Tracks trends in Colorado in order to execute focused and timely stories
• Recruits and manages a stable of freelancers
• Maintains an annual freelance budget
• Approves each stage of proofreading to ensure accuracy and readability
• Creates digital copy to best reach our online readers with focus on SEO-searchable tags and keywords

Greater Denver Area

• Fact-checked every feature story run in 5280 Magazine
• Supervised the research department
• Ensured that each story, headline, and caption in the magazine was accurate via verbal confirmation from story’s sources
• Managed the editorial intern program
• Hired editorial interns each semester from a pool exceeding 100 applicants
• Mentored and guided interns in editorial practices and 5280’s high expectations

Greater Denver Area

• Taught public speaking to three classes of more than 25 student per semester
• Created tailored lesson plans and interactive presentations to engage students
• In addition to teaching true college students, two classes were taught at Title I Denver Public schools to entice high school juniors to earn credits toward higher education.

Greater Denver Area

Assisted the sports editor in building the prep sports digital database, writing high school game and feature stories, and completing archival projects.

Wrote deadline articles covering the Denver Broncos, Denver Nuggets, Olympic athletes, college football, college basketball, and high school sports.

Laramie, Wyoming

• Responsible for instructing two sections of Interpersonal Communication (50 students) per semester
• Responsibilities included creating lesson plans, engaging students outside of their tradition comfort zones, and handling the grading process
• Earned a more than 95 percent positive student review rank each semester

Write articles on topics such as sports, outdoor sports and other events.

Laramie, Wyoming

• Founded and lead the production of the University of Wyoming’s first outdoor adventure publication
• Created the magazine from conception to publication
• Production tasks including presenting and gaining approval from the university board, acquiring funding, hiring an editorial staff, supervising editors, managing a student writing staff, writing, editing copy, securing.
• Built and maintained relationships with board members in order to gather knowledge and insight as to their vision and ideas for the publication

Wrote press release, contacted future participants, held meetings, constructed public relation plans and was included on weekly conference calls.

Wrote feature stories for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox Web site.

Covered Wyoming Cowgirl basketball for the Casper Star Tribune newspaper.

M.A., Communication

B.A., Journalism