Natalya Daoud Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Gets multiple tracks per day from musical artists to review
• Sends honest feedback
• Gains connections with up-and-coming artists

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Writes news stories for the web describing the background and details of events.
• Arranges interviews for reporters.
• Researches and analyzes background information related to stories.
• Investigate breaking news developments. Result: Had the number one breaking news story on the website with 7,900 views.
• Applies social media, and traditional media use to create engaging and attention-grabbing stories. Result: Received over 16,000 likes on a single Facebook post.
• Multitasks by listening to scanners, sends photographers to work on stories, monitors and posts to social media, answers phones, clips packages and photos for the web, uses social media to find stories, pitches story.

Remote

• Writes articles and reviews for print and digital magazine focused on underground musicians in indie, punk, and metal genres.
• Wrote six stories in one print cycle-more than double the output of other writers.
• Interviewed and wrote expanded feature story on We Came as Romans’ “Cold Like War” album.

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Built strong relationships with PR agents.
• Writes and edits feature stories, photographs musicians, conducts interviews and reviews music for blog on a range of musicians.
• Interviewed Ann Wilson of Heart, Andy Grammer, The Darkness and Foxy Shazam.
• Sole Cincinnati journalist to review Foo Fighters concert during “Concrete and Gold” tour stop in Cincinnati.
• Stories featured on front banner of Cincy Music website. Result: Gained solid traction on social media and drove high number of visitors to the website with story on the band The Grove.

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Contributed to a weekly online magazine that illuminates developments in Cincinnati area.
• Utilized dynamic storytelling techniques by approaching stories from different angles. Result: Successfully pitched “Take a Bite Out of Cincy: 9 Locally Made Snacks” story idea.
• Skillfully leveraged social media to promote pieces.

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Earned front-page status with first story, “Studying on the High Seas: Four Sisters Make Semester at Sea Voyages A Family Affair.”
• Interviewed guest speaker and political journalist Candy Crowley. Result: Story featured on Women’s City Club of Greater Cincinnati website.
• Covered Palestinian protest in downtown Cincinnati during 2014 bombings and interviewed people on both sides of the conflict.

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Split time between blogs and online news for 8 different stations, including Kiss 107, WEBN and 700 WLW.
• Brought abundant traffic to station websites by blogging and posting to social media.
• Photographed newsworthy events and learned how to shoot video.
• Learned how to construct a full wrap in radio news format and gained knowledge in JavaScript.

Mt. Orab, Ohio

• First journalist to write about country music artist and songwriter Noah Smith.
• Learned how to appeal to a local audience by writing stories about village events, officials, and educational issues.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism

Activities and Societies: University Newspapers• Wrote about campus life, and covered beats at both papers. Result: Awarded “Most Stories.

Certificate, Nyu Clive Davis Institute Of Recorded Music X Billboard- Music Industry Essentials Program

Courses: History of the Recording Industry, Money Matters in Music, Creativity in Content and Artistry, Building Your Image and Marketing.

British Politics: Inside British Parliament, Introduction To Photography

Study abroad program. Courses: British Politics: Inside British Parliament and Introduction to Photography