Will Denner Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.
• 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.