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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Assign in-depth investigative enterprise stories across CNN's digital and broadcast platforms.Lead teams on ambitious multi-platform investigative projects on high-impact topics, including climate change, policing and disinformation.Evaluate pitches for quality of concept, budget and audience impact.Coach journalists seeking growth opportunities in investigative writing and reporting.Build productive relationships with writers, programmers, designers and other professionals to successfully produce digital enterprise and boost user experience.Organize and launch rapid response to major breaking news using investigative team's reporters and resources.

Responsible for newsgroup-wide script and story approval, including investigative scripts, documentaries and sensitive and controversial stories. Ensure that stories meet high standards of story-telling, clarity, accuracy, quality, fairness and balance, while avoiding libel, defamation and use infringement issues. Work with Executive Producers and other senior news executives to make sure completed stories meet platform/show needs. Provide editorial management of major stories in conjunction with the national and international assignment desks. Also serve as the key editorial liaison with the Legal and Standards & Practices departments. Additional responsibilities include the management of the Row team, including staff scheduling, oversight and training in areas of special expertise.

Atlanta

Editor on The Row, CNN's editorial oversight team.Responsible for script and story approval, including complex investigative scripts, documentaries and stories that include sensitive and controversial content across all CNN's broadcast and digital platforms.Ensure that stories meet high standards of story-telling, clarity, accuracy, quality, fairness and balance, while avoiding libel, defamation and use infringement. A key part of the job is ensuring completed stories meet platform and/or programming needs.Position requires a broad world view, exceptional news judgment, writing, editing and diplomatic skills, as well as a thorough understanding of journalism ethics, libel and fair use law. Coordinate with the national and international desks to provide editorial management of major domestic and international stories.Work under tight deadlines to ensure editorial integrity of television packages and enterprise digital content.Liaise with correspondents around the world, show producers and assignment managers, as well as senior news executives, all while working within a collegial structure. Also serve as the key editorial point-person with the Legal and Standards & Practices departments. Comfortable with employing social media (especially Twitter, Facebook and Reddit) for news-gathering purposes and promoting CNN's distinctive multi-platform content.

Supervised the CNN Wire report on the morning shift by assigning network priorities to a team of eight to 10 writers and editors stationed in the United States and abroad.Prioritized spot and enterprise news coverage against limited resources in a high-pressure environment, without compromising editorial needs or quality.Oversaw breaking news coverage through the Now Desk; sign off on breaking news urgents/bulletins; give final approval for publish on fast-breaking developments and updates.Responsible for frontline accuracy and urgency for CNN Digital and other CNN platforms; conference bridge contact for the CNN Wire during major breaking news.Responsible for a high standard of story-telling, clarity, accuracy, quality, fairness and balance for our content, viewed by internal and external clients.Handled editorial quality control; serve as a point-person for handling discrepancies and initial point of contact for Legal and Standards issues; flag attribution and content that don’t meet CNN standards.Point-person for international and domestic directors of coverage, bureau chiefs, show producers, editors, and other senior managers and journalists across all CNN platforms. Demonstrated nuanced editorial judgment, good communication and collaboration skills, a positive attitude and strong leadership.Provided input for staff performance reviews.Responsible for the training, scheduling and overall management of 10 freelancers.Compiled performance data from across all shifts that was used in top-level strategic planning.

Wrote and edited international and national stories for use throughout CNN, including HLN, CNN International, CNN.com and elsewhere.

As the AP correspondent for eastern Kentucky, I was responsible for national breaking and enterprise news coverage over 38 counties. I covered a broad range of stories for a national audience, including health care, coal mining, new energy technologies, poverty, crime and environmental research. I also fostered relationships with AP’s print and broadcast members.

I established a criminal justice beat and cultivated sources to write enterprise and breaking news stories on Alabama’s prison overcrowding crisis, major capital crimes and other issues. Also responsible for military, education and health care beats. My stories were consistently picked up by national and regional wires. I also routinely handled broadcast, night and day desks; organized news report and edited copy.

As a new hire, I covered a broad range of stories, including demographic changes, developments at corporate hubs and high-profile court cases. I also handled broadcast and desk shifts when needed.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Emerging Media

Bachelor'S, Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Red & Black: I served as a reporter and editor-in-chief for a 15, 000-circulation daily.

Front-End Web Development

This course taught me how to translate ideas into functional, stylized websites for personal or business purposes. I discovered how.