Marcela Valdivia Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Miami, Florida, United States

I teach Multimedia Production II, an advanced course where students learn how to produce stories on cross platforms. The course helps students understand the elements of video, text, audio, photos, and infographics. Students pitch stories, gather elements and create a website with the goal of getting their multimedia project published

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

• Use Dalet to stack, write, and edit a one-hour morning newscast. • Assign reporters and photographers to stories of the day. • Ability to pivot to breaking news by making adjustments before and during the show. • Covered national headlines like the indictment of Former President Donald Trump and historic flooding in South Florida.• Pitch story ideas for scheduled enterprise content.

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

• Stacked a one-hour morning newscast with local, national, and breaking stories.• Ability to be fluid during weather coverage for hurricane season.• Covered national headline stories like the Gabby Petito case and Surfside condo collapse with anchors in the field.• Assigned stories, approve scripts, and communicate with field crews.• Worked with directors to showcase stories in a creative way by using graphics and video in monitors.• Helped in the planning of special reports and live coverage.• Participated in show review meetings with managers to improve shows in the future.

Eugene, Oregon, United States

• Produced a one-hour evening newscast covering the biggest local and national stories of the day.• Covered daily live news conferences on coronavirus briefings and the 2020 election.• Participated in planning meetings by contributing with story ideas.• Nominated for an Emmy Award for evening newscast on the western wildfires.

Glendale, Ca

• Assisted the assignment desk by making phone calls to police and fire departments.• Monitored police scanners, satellite feeds, social media platforms and other sources for breaking news.• Researched story ideas for reporters and information on developing stories.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Used Clickability to publish bilingual local and national stories.• Translated English web stories to Spanish for KVEA's website.• Published tweets and keep Twitter up-to-date with relevant information.• Found source subjects, conducted interviews and compiled research information for daily newscasts.• Built photo galleries and edited packages using Volicon.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Pitched story ideas and used news judgment to decide which stories to include on the rundown.• Managed and communicated with a team of over 30 reporters about assigned stories.• Wrote and edited scripts on iNEWS under a deadline driven environment.• Coordinated live shots with reporters and directors.• Ordered graphics for the newscast and review packages from reporters.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Produce radio segments about the Latino community on Día de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever, the largest Latinx pop-up in the country called Molcajete Dominguero and the wave of migrants in Mexico City who are seeking asylum at the U.S. border.• Work closely in assisting students to improve their scripts about advice to first generation Latino students, an annual Latino Heritage Parade in Pasadena and a restaurant celebrating its 95th anniversary.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Wrote stories about homelessness in affluent areas of Los Angeles County, the lack of mentorship for aspiring Latino physicians, outreach tactics among districts in Spanish Dual Language Immersion programs and United States citizens moving to Tijuana for better housing affordability.• Wrote, produced and filmed packages about the Borderline Bar & Grill mass shooting in Thousand Oaks and the Woolsey Fire in Malibu.• Partnered with NBC Latino to cover stories in Puerto Rico on the ongoing recovery after Hurricane Maria.• Build multimedia web pages using HTML, CSS and jQuery.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Produced bilingual social videos about the Latino community for mobile and social media platforms.• Increased Instagram traffic in three weeks from 310 to 425 followers and profile visits from 29 to 257.• Managed a team of 10 reporters to assure they met deadlines and assisted in resolving editing issues on Adobe Premiere.• Filmed and conducted interviews with a DACA recipient who opened her own beauty salon, the designer behind Raggedy Tiff and two mothers who created bilingual books for children.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Successful Voices With Marcy is a seasonal podcast that consists of interviews with guests about their journey on reaching the top of their career. The podcast highlights people from our communities that are immigrants and product of immigrant parents. Listen to all the the triumphs and pitfalls throughout their professional career every Wednesday.

Burbank, Ca

• Escorted talent from Animal Kingdom, Chicago Fire, Vida, The 100, Dynasty and The Originals for call time. • Obtained all necessary internal approvals and responded to requests from talent.• Assisted supervisors with coordinating flights, booking hotels and arranging transportation for talent. • Maintained and updated a calendar of activities and events about program shows.

Burbank, Ca

• Team member for one of the top 50 internship programs ranked in the nation in 2017 on Vault.com.• Prepared news stories about Las Vegas shooting, earthquake in Mexico City, Hurricane Harvey in Texas and wildfires in Southern California. • Conducted strategic research on competitor stations, such as Power 106 and AMP radio, to compare blogs, video and events.• Communicated with radio listeners to give more information about the prizes they won and addressed any concerns about the company. Attended production meetings with producers to brainstorm content ideas for future radio shows.• Uploaded and scheduled content on social media platforms utilizing Social Flow and TweetDeck.

Los Angeles, California

• Reporter for a student run newspaper publication that reaches a diverse audience of 30,000 students through newsstands, an online website, and social media platforms. • Part of a team that received a first place newspaper award by the American Scholastic Press Association. • Content editor with experience working collaboratively and independently in pitching story ideas. • Team management: Managed team of student reporters. • Conducted interviews throughout the Los Angeles area and wrote print and digital stories on a weekly basis. Stories included coverage on Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, author Star Parker, grand opening of Cal State LA Downtown campus, NBC 4 President Steve Carlston, NBC 4 Account Executive Ricky Jefferson, John Gerro Real Estate Symposium, White House Digital Strategist Crystal Miller, and others. • Writer for weekly print and digital stories for the Spanish section of the newspaper, La Onda. Beats include local news, national news, politics, immigration, entertainment, sports, travel, music, and others.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted a new Spanish production company launch a radio show on WHWN 88.3 FM, WWGC 1090 AM, KXEQ 1340 AM, WSYM 810 AM, and KRND 1630 AM.• Communicated with over 50 program directors from radio stations across the nation to pitch content about radio shows.• Increased number of followers on Facebook and Instagram with creative posts, videos, and interaction with listeners.• Scheduled interviews with news organizations for news segments and contacted managers to have artists on the show.• Uploaded content, adjusted layouts, and updated information on the official website and YouTube.• Programmed music and commercials for radio shows.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted the programming department for "El Show de Piolin" as a phone screener by answering calls in Spanish.• Enthusiastically expressed opinions on topics as an on-air talent.• Coordinated future radio show segments with on-air talent with new content relevant to that week.• Recorded interviews with celebrities to produce content for social media platforms.

Master Of Science - Ms, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication Studies

Emphasis in Mass Communication (Advertising and Public Relations) and Spanish Minor.