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Daytona Beach, Fl, Us

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

• Covered more than 40 high schools in nine counties as a preps reporter in North Carolina• Earned a top-10 nod from the APSE and six awards — three first-place finishes for sports enterprise writing, feature writing and special sections — from the N.C. Press Association on Bowman Gray Racing, high school athletics and the Carolina Panthers• Contributed on college beats, like Appalachian State and Wake Forest, with game day, feature and sidebar stories• Utilized daily website analytics available through Parse.ly, the company's tool to monitor online traffic, and produced videos to drive engagement, like joining an area football team for a practice• Provided coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic — feature and enterprise stories, included — and pitched in for breaking news from crimes to fires

Bradenton, Florida

• Reported on professional triathlons and high school football for online and print• Utilized video and photos for social media reporting, including live updates on games • Worked as a freelance reporter while searching for a full-time opportunity

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• Wrote and designed quarterly newsletters, using Adobe products like InDesign and Illustrator, for hundreds of the chapter’s graduates across the United States in addition to sending out weekly email updates • Created a blog, which enhanced Phi Tau's outreach to graduates via online stories, photos and video• Attended several regional Phi Tau conferences at Auburn, Georgia Tech and Alabama to learn better strategies and share ideas on audience engagement• Worked to recover contact information of more than 1,000 graduates, which was previously lost over the years

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• Wrote mostly sports stories on teams at Southern Miss, and provided coverage of pregame traditions like tailgating• Earned the copy editor position two months after being hired as a reporter, and worked to keep a staff of four writers on deadlines• Assigned stories for the staff to report, while also gathering contacts and other information they needed prior to interviews• Gained strong experience in editorial techniques and worked to implement constructive criticism for staff writers

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• Covered high school sports, college athletics at William Carey along with Southern Miss, and wrote a weekly column that appeared on Mondays in the newspaper • Was a reporter while attending Southern Miss, and turned out nightly stories on deadline

Sarasota, Florida

• Reported on NFL training camp for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, professional powerboat racing and high school sports for a summer internship while attending Southern Miss• Created daily stories along with major features that made front page for the sports section and newspaper• Produced and shot video to compliment a story on little league baseball players’ reactions to the suspensions of Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez, who were linked to the Biogensis scandal that swept the MLB

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• Covered high school sports, college athletics at William Carey University along with Southern Miss, and wrote a weekly column that appeared on Mondays in the newspaper• Was a reporter while attending Southern Miss, and turned out nightly stories on deadline

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• Covered all sports at Southern Miss, and wrote profiles on football players for Southern Miss Kickoff Magazine• Wrote features on the Southern Miss baseball program, which appeared in Screaming Eagle Magazine• Worked stats equipment for Southern Miss women's soccer games, and wrote press releases for the athletic department's website

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• Worked for the Southern Miss Alumni Association as a feature writer and produced content for its quarterly publication• Wrote donor profiles, and feature stories on additions to the athletic department's 'Circle of Champions'• Deadline-oriented work, which provided interview experience and stories were published to thousands within the university's alumni base