Design sports, local, national and international news pages on deadline with Adobe InDesign. Use news judgment to evaluate stories of interest to newspaper audience. Edit articles using AP Stylebook guidelines, write engaging headlines and captions. Promote online and mobile readership through social media

Sports reporterResponsibilities include the Weber State University athletics department beat, with an emphasis on football and men's basketball, and Ogden Raptors minor league baseball. Write in-depth features, breaking news, game advances, recaps, notes columns, blogs and social media updates. Regularly serve as sports desk night editor. News, crime and community reporterCovered a wide variety of news stories, from in-depth reporting on city council, school board meetings and transportation, drug abuse and prostitution trends to breaking newsevents such as fires, fatal accidents and murders. Wrote features on community members, street festivals, fundraisers and events.Served as night cops reporter; collaborated with day reporters to check facts, edit and produce final version of ongoing news stories.Copy editor/page designer/sports reporterDesigned pages on deadline with Adobe InDesign, edited staff and wire copy, compiled briefs items, box scores and additional agate, wrote captions and headlines.Previous beats were Utah State football and men's basketball, Utah Blaze football and high school sports.Served as Prep Insider coordinator responsible for features, notes and page design of weekly prep sports page while acting as primary reporter for prep wrestling, track and cross country.Wrote all content and designed pages for special season preview sections.Coordinated multimedia packages to complement features in print.

Full-time staff sports writer during internship. Wrote a wide variety of news and feature stories on professional, collegiate, Olympic and high school sports, including baseball, football, rodeo, auto racing, golf, tennis, soccer, lacrosse and distance running.

Reported campus news and issues for student newspaper. Assigned and edited staff stories while serving as sports editor and beat writer for Utah State’s football, basketball and club baseball teams. Led regular staff meetings. Designed sports section.