Shawn O'Neal Email & Phone Number

Moscow, Idaho, United States

• Direct and execute all aspects of college basketball magazine from story generation, assignments, copy editing, fact-checking, proofing, cross-checking content for consistency and coordination with the design and.
• Content creation and management responsibilities: News, analysis, opinion, headlines, captions, marketing, executive communications, constituent response, social media, etc.
• Direct all proofreading and quality control for Lindy's College Football. Supervise production, make final calls on all content changes and assure adherence to AP style and highest quality standard in grammar and.
• Perform extensive research, assessment, evaluation and analysis to assure content quality meets highest professional standard in order to withstand intense national scrutiny leading up to season.Recruit, hire, train.
• Act as public representative for magazine in media interviews, including public speaking and radio analysis guest appearances.Extensive experience in news, feature and editorial writing for publications and web. Adept.

Moscow, Idaho

• Direct and lead vision for all functions of campus student engagement. Supervise eight professional staff members with oversight for 100-plus student employees encompassing eight departments and more than 75 diverse.
• Advise student government association on policy initiatives, prepare student leaders to engage and successfully negotiate with campus, community, state, and federal leaders on significant policy issues. Supervise eight.
• Plan, manage and implement campus-wide events, major festivals, awards and engagement programs, leading to a 90 percent campus life satisfaction rate among graduating seniors.
• Research, analyze, apply and implement policy initiatives within the department in relation to university, state and federal conditions and issues, with a focus on student well-being, success and educational.
• Analyze and assess student needs in order to conceive, develop and present meaningful curricula, workshops and presentations in physical and virtual settings. Curriculum topics include effective communication.
• 18-time recipient of the Alumni Award for Excellence for outstanding mentoring and leadership as nominated by the highest achieving University of Idaho students.

Moscow, Idaho

• Administer all operations, including professional and legal advising and training of students in The Argonaut newspaper, Blot magazine, Photo Bureau, radio station KUOI and Student Media Advertising.
• Plan, train, teach, and advise students in all areas of journalism, from basic reporting, feature writing, legal issues, punctuation, grammar, Associated Press style, design, photography, etc.
• Collaborate with the newsroom to plan and execute stories that served as an example of the best possible college journalism, focusing on issues that directly affected the lives of UI students.
• Collaborate with advertising staff to set aggressive goals on client service and sales to position the organization to meet its budget projections and clients to meet their metrics.
• Manage university licensing and reporting requirements to the Federal Communications Commission and Emergency Alert System.

Moscow, Idaho

• Developed, implemented and assessed curriculum for Media Writing, Reporting and News Editing & Production, Advanced Reporting (directed study,) and Media Management (directed study).
• Taught two classes each semester, one traditional section and a directed study where students receive credit for work done at Student Media.

• Primary writer and editor for weekly sections.
• Responsible for planning, producing and designing a high volume of news, features and opinion content covering the local business and arts communities.
• Served on the paper's editorial board, producing opinion pieces on community, state and national issues.
• Chief quality control editor, reviewing all content before publication.

Tacoma, Wash.

• Led NBA and national college basketball coverage for the internet arm of CBS sports.
• Coordinated work of writers and editors to produce comprehensive NCAA basketball coverage to align with network contract for NCAA Tournament coverage.
• Work included column, feature and news writing, generating story ideas and supervision and quality control of more than 50 national writers.
• Appeared on local and national radio as network analyst.

Bremerton, Wash.

Coordinated high school sports coverage for the Scripps-Howard daily newspaper.Responsibilities included game, feature and breaking news writing, with a weekly preppage as the focal point. Also served as a general assignment writer, covering variousprofessional, college and community events. Duties included regular desk shifts, whichcalled for editing and.

Moscow, Idaho

Oversaw all aspects of production of sports section for daily newspaper, covering 13high schools, two Division I colleges and community activities. Duties included layoutusing Quark XPress, beat coverage and administrative tasks.

Wenatchee, Wash

Served as a general assignment sports reporter at the daily newspaper. Covered college,high school and community events ranging from youth baseball to auto racing. Alsoperformed layout duties using Dewar.

Moscow, Idaho/Pullman, Wash.

Served as primary high school sports writer, heading up coverage of 13 area high schools.Duties included game, feature and breaking news stories. Also assisted in coverage of twolocal Division I college athletic programs.

Master'S Of Science, Adult, Organizational Learning And Leadership

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Journalism