Sydney Jorgensen Walker Email & Phone Number

Kappa Tau Alpha is a college honor society that recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communication. Membership must be earned by excellence in academic work at one of the colleges and universities that have chapters. Selection for membership is a mark of highest distinction and honor.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Coordinated and prepared for executive meetings• Administrative support• Planned and carried out large department-wide events

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Content writer for special projects • Collaborated on digital experience and design development

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Wrote over 90 articles and feature stories for the Faith section of Deseret News• Ranked No. 5 during the month of February for page views out of 80+ writers• Managed social media sites for related accounts• Developed strategies to increase reader engagement and following

Provo, Utah Area

• Head of student newsroom staff of 20 reporters/editors• Oversaw weekly print edition and all online news content• Coordinated story selection, timing, planning and assigning• Directed daily pitch meetings

University Of São Paulo

• Grant recipient for the Foreign Language Area Studies Program• Strengthened professional Portuguese skills through summarizing and translating documents• Curated and archived the work of Brazilian social thinkers and studied class inequality

Provo, Utah Area

• Wrote more than 100 press releases, articles and blog posts• Worked as primary media relations contact for BYU men’s tennis and track while assisting other sports• Updated byucougars.com with advances, recaps, roster information and stats

Provo, Utah Area

• Selected as one of two reporters to cover the 2016 Presidential Election in Washington D.C.• Created story packages comprised of several in-depth articles and multimedia elements on political and international topics

Provo, Utah Area

• Produced 270% of the required inch count with more than 50 feature stories and game recaps• Selected as one of two reporters to cover the WCC basketball tournament in Las Vegas• Became proficient in conducting interviews and writing on a deadline

Provo, Utah Area

• Updated and maintained the BYU preschool website• Gained experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access while managing registration and payments• Organized inventory and ordering with bar code system• Expanded communication skills and problem solving by answering daily emails and phone calls

Bachelor’S Degree, Communications With An Emphasis In News Media

Activities and Societies: Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society Minors in Portuguese and sociology

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