Madison Russ Email & Phone Number

Atlantic City, Nj, Us

Mays Landing, Nj

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Atlantic City, Nj.

Features reporter at the Press of Atlantic City. Covered a variety of human interest topics such as arts, culture, entertainment, and profile pieces. Collaborated with photographers for print, videos for online, television, and co-hosted the Press’s television segment, “-30-," and spearheaded own podcast projects. Responsible for coming up with story ideas, adhering to daily deadlines, and writing breaking news stories for online.

Cape May County, New Jersey

Staff writer for The Wildwood Leader before advancing within the company to The Press of Atlantic City. Reported on all four municipalities in the Wildwoods covering politics, council meetings, breaking news, and features for daily online and weekly print. Worked on a solutions-based series about heroin in South Jersey called "Current Solutions" and won First Place for Responsible Journalism at the New Jersey Press Association awards for an article about young users.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Editorial assistant and primary researcher for a weekly, TV arts magazine show. Prepared background research on guests, features, and profile segments by utilizing public records. Conducted pre-interviews with guests prior to their appearance on the show as well as fact-checking information and pitched segments.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

Reported on political and policy stories within the state Capitol in Harrisburg in a fast-paced and deadline-driven news environment for publications such as The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pennlive/Patriot News,The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Allentown Morning Call, Capitol Wire, and Pittsburg Post-Gazette.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Assisted in 2012 Presidential Campaign Advertising Coding Project under Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Developed a coding scheme, wrote internal reports, aggregated data, edited scholarly articles, assisted in project management, and conducted qualitative research on numerous political communication studies that garnered national attention such as one study that found Stephen Colbert taught viewers more about campaign finance through "The Colbert Report" than any other news outlet. Assisted with administrative duties, such monitoring the front desk and answering phones, when necessary.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Reporting, writing, adhering to deadlines, pitching stories, and managing social media pages such as Twitter accounts via Tweet Deck.

Assisted customer needs, concerns, and responsible for making weekly sales goals to improvebranch growth. Responsible for cash/checking deposits, processing loan payments. Maintained proper cash limits, cashed checks, accepted deposits, and issued cashier's checks,

Somers Point, Northfield, Linwood

Event coverage for the Somers Point, Northfield, and Linwood area.

Communication, Political Communication

Activities and Societies: Interview Staff Writer for Penn Political Review, DJ of "Hangover Mondays with Madison Russ" for WQHS student.

Aa, Communication

Activities and Societies: Atlantic Cape Review, Communications Award committee, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society member. Editor in Chief.

Diploma, General Studies