Sam Campbell Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Lake Stevens, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

● Delivered early morning breaking news from the field for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area.● Served as critical eyes and ears for the Puget Sound region in rapid-paced, high-stress environment. Topics included weather, traffic, government accountability, public safety, homelessness and more.● Appeared daily on live talk shows to answer questions from hosts and debrief the public, almost always with noadvanced notice what questions hosts would ask.● Produced original multimedia content across mediums, including radio, video, web and social media.● Quickly educated myself on any given topic of interest to the public while on an urgent deadline, explaining theissue to the public in a clear, concise and compelling manner.● Developed expertise in multiple issues, including tech industry developments, artificial intelligence, militarynews, and an ongoing civic struggle over homelessness in Burien, among others.● Filled in as anchor and editor as needed for the early morning newscasts.● Pioneered station’s transition to digital landscape, creating digestible video news on social media on rapid deadline.● Created in-depth 17-minute multimedia documentary, In Plain Sight, on the humanitarian crisis of homelessness in Seattle, perceived inaction by government and the rise of a controversial nonprofit.▪ Self-taught Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition while fulfilling standard daily breaking news duties▪ Anchored, reported, shot, wrote, produced and edited the documentary, all on my own.● First in the region to break a story of widespread mail theft shutting down postal service delivery to an entire zip code in a historically Black and Asian neighborhood of South Seattle.▪ Found a previously unreported trend of USPS mail carriers held at gunpoint.● First in the region to report a series of burglaries in a sliver of unincorporated King County where thieves targeted businesses outside Seattle Police jurisdiction and on the cusp of sheriff’s office patrol routes.

Remote

● Co-hosted, wrote and produced show notes for two weekly one-hour podcasts on Xbox Game Pass and Mass Effect lore.● Reached the top 1.5% of all podcasts globally - and the Top 25 in Apple and Spotify’s Video Games and Leisure podcast categories - two months after launch.● Fulfilled role as on-air talent live on Twitch every Sunday at 10:30 p.m.● Researched new topics each week for discussion, filling at least 60 minutes of content weekly.● Ran the podcast Twitter and Instagram accounts, developing a following from the ground up, engaging the community daily.● Coordinated with Tom, aka R0b0ts, the show’s co-creator, to discuss future content plans and strategies.

Remote

● Streamed three times weekly, performing and engaging with viewers on air for about 8 hours per week.● Built a returning audience that is now growing at nearly 50-70% monthly.● Founded a growing online forum on Discord which serves as a standalone community for my own streams.● Served as audiovisual editor and producer for my livestreams, operating within Open Broadcast Softwaremediums like Streamlabs.● Collaborated with community artists to produce custom-tailored, original and branded content still easilyrecognizable to my target sci-fi fanbase.● Leveraged audiences of my podcast and streams to grow both ventures.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

● Monitored, tracked and reported breaking news for KOIN.com in a constantly evolving, hyper fast-paced and high-stress digital environment.● Produced, conducted interviews for, wrote and hosted a KOIN 6 special report podcast on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the GWOT, A Generation at War.● Managed the site alone on weekends, sometimes handling major local breaking news events like the shooting death of off-duty Vancouver police officer Donald Sahota by a Clark County deputy.● Produced about 3 to 5 stories per day for the Portland metro area, not including porting broadcast coverage to the site or updating existing digital coverage throughout the day.● Covered high-profile press conferences digitally and updated coverage on the site in real time, sending push alerts, social media notifications and updating immediately as needed.● Interviewed sources for television to help out a severely short-staffed assignment desk and producer list.● Curated and aggregated a steady stream of engaging content that saw recirculation rates of 35%+ on average.● Identified, formatted and repackaged content from external sources that aligned with ongoing trends ofsuccessful content on our site.● Optimized metadata and used A/B headline testing, metric tools and social media suites.● Worked collaboratively with newsroom staff on enterprise content, often finishing assignments that were givento television reporters much before their evening hits broadcasted.● Wrote copy that promoted, distributed and recirculated articles on social media.● Formulated original, yet snappy and captivating headlines that led to higher traffic on our site.● Conducted all duties while simultaneously handling breaking news that required rapid pivoting and prioritization.● Work with my byline accumulated about 410,000 page views for the site monthly (2.45 million/last 6 months).

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

● Produced award-winning stories and photographs on military training and community news of the largest Army installation in the contiguous U.S.● Interviewed high-ranking Defense Department officials on a weekly basis.● Served as community section editor of the newspaper, laying pages in Adobe InDesign, developing and maintaining a regular circle of sources, editing copy from incoming submissions, and covering a wide range of topics – from ​education​ to law enforcement to housing to ​profile features​.● Reported on impactful and complex issues, ranging from ​traumatic brain injury in soldiers​ to White House agency anti-terrorism training, and from the ​military’s strategic shift​ from counterinsurgency operations to continent-scale combat ops against near-peer threats (organized state militaries).● Key achievementso Produced ​viral social media content​ while on assignment, the fort’s most-viewed post ever at 4.2 million views.o Created and saw to completion a four-part profile feature series, ​Becoming a Soldier,​ which followed two young, local recruits through basic combat training.o Silver Quill Award, May 2020, for article, ​Army updates CBRN arsenal with new radiological detectors.o Army Chemical Review, Dec. 2019, cover photographer, ​photo attached.o My byline has appeared in more than 25 local, regional and national outlets/publications, including The Springfield News-Leader, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, The Rolla Daily News, and more.

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Fort Leonard Wood’s on-post newspaper.

New York, New York

Greater New York City Area

• Produced two to three weekly articles with my own photographs for publication on the website.• Gained daily experience with SEO, metadata and creative commons.• Worked under deadline in a competitive, international market.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Gained proficiency in ENPS and Premiere.• Independently produced and wrote VOSOTs & SOTs for the afternoon and evening broadcasts.• Conducted daily interviews both shadowing a reporter and independently.