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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Absorb all social media duties in addition to homepage responsibilities, including creation and implementation of new content strategy on social.• Utilize all analytical tools (Chartbeat, Crowdtangle, Dataminr, Parsely, SocialFlow, etc.) to monitor article performance on multiple platforms and help guide editorial coverage by reporting statistics to various news desks.

New York, New York

• Responsible for setting the look and tone of nydailynews.com, including writing catchy and informative headlines and working with photo team to create intriguing art for site’s homepage.• As sole overnight editor from Feb. 2016-July 2017, assigned stories to overnight reporters while working to ensure online coverage is up to date.• Posted breaking news on social media quickly to reach more readers. Also sent mobile push alerts and breaking news emails when necessary.

New York, New York

• Copy edit, fact check and publish breaking news and feature stories under tight deadline for nydailynews.com, one of the most visited newspaper websites in the country.• Use SEO techniques in headlines, subheads and photo captions in order to engage readers to visit the site and be among the top Google results.• Incorporate multimedia elements such as photos, video, social media posts and in-text links in order to enhance coverage and optimize layout for both Web and mobile platforms.

New York, Ny

•Cut press conferences, interviews, game highlights, Olympic photo packages, file footage, etc. for the affiliate news service of ABC News to distribute to stations across the country.•Coordinated with NewsOne Production Assistants, ESPN PAs, as well as sports anchors and reporters from local ABC stations to provide coverage of all major sporting news and events.•Assisted in assembling file footage of all the top NFL prospects before the 2014 NFL Draft, and went on location to interview the prospects before the Draft

Fairfield, Connecticut

•Responsible for producing, shooting, editing, writing, and reporting all audio and video pieces for the campus newspaper’s newly redesigned website.•Work with the online editor to provide additional elements to print stories in order to make website more interactive, such as integrating social media and other websites to enhance coverage.

Fairfield, Connecticut

•Covered all varsity sports team on campus, including men’s and women’s basketball, lacrosse, rowing, cross country, soccer, women’s volleyball, baseball, and various club and intramural sports for college weekly.•Take photographs for most game stories to be published in print or online.

Bridgeport, Connecticut

•Collected information on local area high school sports scores, and wrote game summaries from the information given for 60,000 circulation metro daily newspaper.

Hartford, Connecticut

•Gathered local game results from coaches and wrote articles nightly for state’s largest and most prestigious newspaper.•Wrote five featured stories that were published online and in print for the Courant, covering sports such as women’s tennis, Little League and American Legion baseball, and golf.•Worked with staff sports writers to assemble nightly local sports agate layout and content.

Hartford, Connecticut

•Created and edited highlights for nightly sports segment of consistently top-rated statewide newscast.•Assembled video highlight packages of various sports including MLB, NFL, NBA, college football, Little League Baseball, auto racing, and Olympic coverage.•Wrote on-air script for FOX CT’s sports director Rich Coppola and other sportscasters

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism And Communication, 3.56 Overall Gpa - Graduated Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: English Honor Society (Sigma Tau Delta), Communication Honor Society (Lambda Pi Eta)Minor in Television Production

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Theatre, Track & Field