My job duties include scheduling reporters/photographers for coverage of daily events, gathering news from various sources, keeping my fingers on the pulse of a 10 parish coverage area, ensuring all staff involved with the daily delivery of news are operating to their full potential.Other duties include ensuring fresh content on the Web site, creating graphics for newscasts, reporting in front of the camera and putting together VOs and VSVs for daily newscasts.

My duties included reporting on city, parish and state officials for daily coverage; developing working relationships with mayors, local business professionals and others; planning/managing day-to-day coverage for three separate beats; collaborating with editors and sources on topics for articles and proofing/editing own copy and with editors to ensure accuracy and quality.

As a copy editor, I edited articles from the wire and the Times according to AP style; designed the Sunday Times front; planned wire content and story placement for the daily Times; placed Times’ articles and photos on the newspaper’s Web site and wrote a weekly column for the Times’ Sunday DIRT section.As a reporter, I wrote clear, concise spot or breaking news on deadline; managed continuous coverage of two beats: city and county; broke several important stories before other major media outlets; built strong working relationships with local, state and national government officials; generated story ideas for in-depth feature and news articles and reviewed movies and music for entertainment section, Next.