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Vancouver, Washington, United States

• Specialize in coverage of local high school and college athletics through feature stories, game stories and breaking news. • Enhance coverage with multimedia content, including video interview/highlight packages, photo galleries and in-house “Varsity360” podcast.• Serve as back-up web producer for Metro desk on weekend shifts. Write breaking news and post wire content on The Columbian’s website.• Earned first place in Society of Professional Journalists’ 2022 NW Excellence in Journalism Awards for “Sports Feature.”

Chico, California Area

• Planned, developed and executed sports coverage of 12 high schools, one junior college and one NCAA Division II university for a seven-day daily newspaper. Collaborated with sports staff, consisting of three reporters.• Covered daily crime, courts, fires and other stories concerning public safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Monitored social media channels, wrote engaging headlines, posted stories online as they broke and updated them throughout the day.• Part of newsroom staff named a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news reporting for coverage of the 2018 Camp Fire. • Earned four awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association between 2018 and 2020, including a pair of first-place honors for “Sports Feature Story” and “Sports Game Story.”

Madras, Oregon

• Covered Jefferson County preps, outdoors and recreation for a weekly newspaper. Responsible for all facets of the sports department, which included writing a majority of stories, shooting photos, and designing pages for print.• Established new avenues for engagement with the creation of company Twitter and Facebook accounts.• Received two awards in the 2018 Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for “Best Sports Story” and “Best Sports Photo.”

Pendleton, Oregon

• Covered business, community events and sports for 5-day per week, ONPA award-winning newspaper. Work included feature stories, event coverage, breaking news, briefs and photography. • Wrote feature stories and coordinated photo assignments for annual Round-Up Magazine and Umatilla County Fair tab.• Part of University of Oregon's Snowden Internship Program.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Covered University of Oregon football, men’s basketball, tennis and golf for the UO campus newspaper. Wrote features, game stories and breaking news. Pitched stories to editors weekly.• Engaged with readers through Twitter and Facebook with live updates, content sharing and hashtags.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Covered University of Oregon football and basketball for Duck Sports Authority, the UO affiliate of Rivals.com. Wrote breaking news, recruiting and game stories.• Managed game threads on the Ducks Sports Authority website.

- Covered prep football and basketball games in the Portland metro area by writing game recaps. - Worked with several Oregonian sports editors to improve my writing and reporting skills. - All of my game stories were published in print and the newspaper's online affiliate, OregonLive.com.