Sarah Cooke Vogel Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Maintain and update Education Minnesota's website, as well as our EdMNVotes microsite, using separate content management systems. (Kentico, WordPress)- Developed and now execute an award-winning digital comms and organizing strategy that expands Education Minnesota's presence and advances its goals and objectives through social media, email, texting, online advocacy tools, etc.- Create, oversee and maintain Education Minnesota's mobile app.- Oversee and maintain Education Minnesota's mass and P2P texting services.- Create and edit regular e-newsletters and periodic blasts using Salesforce Marketing.- Train members and staff on web best practices, social media strategies and web-based platforms.- Copy edit Education Minnesota documents for AP Style, spelling, grammar, etc. as part of the proofing team.

- Wrote one to three 900-word articles per month on home and gardening topics that were published in newspapers and online news sites around the world via AP's special sections.- Coordinated images for each story or snapped my own.

San Francisco Bay Area

­- Wrote, edited and posted original and CNN wire stories to IB's 70-plus TV and newspaper websites across the country.­- Created and incorporated slideshows, videos and other multimedia content with web stories, including a daily slideshow called The Daily List, which generated more than 3 million pageviews for IB sites since launching in fall 2010.­- Sent national breaking news alerts to thousands of email subscribers, and periodically helped the copy desk proof stories, headlines and teaser text submitted for editing by IB sites.

­- Oversaw and managed a staff of six reporters and coordinated coverage of more than a dozen communities and school districts for six weekly papers in the northwest Minneapolis suburbs­- Wrote and edited dozens of stories each week, posted content online, shot photos and video when necessary­- Mentored reporters, many of whom were beginners, resolved complaints/problems among staff and/or readers and represented Sun Newspapers in the community at Chamber of Commerce and other events

- Covered K-12 and higher education, as well as statewide breaking news, courts, crime, business, features, state government and the state Legislature first in Colorado, then Wyoming and Montana.- Rewrote newspaper and broadcast copy, wrote and edited AP copy and coordinated photo coverage as a desk editor several times a week.

- Submitted up to three stories a day covering meetings and enterprise in Berthoud, a bedroom community of Denver- Covered live events and breaking news in Loveland at night and on the weekends

- Submitted up to three stories a day covering criminal and civil cases in Winnebago County Circuit Court- Covered 23 police, fire and sheriff’s departments in Winnebago County- Submitted up to seven stories per week localizing state and national issues to the paper’s five-county subscription area- Won a state journalism award for coverage of an inquest hearing into the death of a mentally ill man killed by Oshkosh police during a six-hour standoff

- Developed county government beat covering the Town of Caledonia in Racine County- Submitted up to three stories a week covering municipal meetings and town issues while attending Marquette University full time