Takesha Thomas Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Continuously monitor content feeds from newsroom; Proactively promote stories in appropriate areas based on Digital Operations Leads and manager's recommendations; Writing accurate and engaging teases; Ensure content platforms, including sites, apps, and new products, reflect the best content available and the content is optimized for each platform; Continuously inform stakeholders of promotion opportunities and promotion decisions; Anticipate audience wants based on events, and past metrics and react to new audience behaviors; Support newsrooms in issues related to content production; Troubleshoot and resolve issues; Ensure the smooth flow of content and multimedia elements to the website, apps, and emerging platforms; Communicate with Support to resolve technical issues; Seek opportunities to create or share content via syndication or other emerging platform needs when appropriate and relevant; Provide timely and viable responses to urgent tech support tickets, elevating issues as appropriate; Troubleshoot and resolve issues and roadblocks within outlined parameters; Monitor requests for social media content sharing from newsrooms, addressing urgent social shares from local newsroom managers.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Writing and reporting on local municipal meetings for WFMZ-TV's website. Utilization of Blox CMS for story entry. Utilization and entry of SEO keywords, images and headlines.

Assisted with the production of news video to online publishers. Copy-edited, media filtering, audio quality assurance and review of content relevancy. Edited written copy for “broadcast,” selected video/image assets based on relevancy to the text of the story, and reviewed audio content for quality – both technical and artistic.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Planned, researched, gathered, interviewed, edited, wrote, prepared, and assembled program materials; set up interviews, answered phone calls, input and filed emails of incoming information into Electronic News Production System (ENPS) calendar; managed daily calendar and assisted in scheduling of reporters for upcoming broadcasts; conducted general observation of scanners, incoming emails and other news local news outlets for local, national, and international events of public importance; assigned field photography and field reporter staff to breaking news and element gathering during the news cycle.