Resume
Work Experience
August 2006-Present: Madison City Editor, The Onion A.V. Club, Madison, Wisconsin
-Write and edit entertainment and food coverage for local print edition; contribute items to A.V. Club's online newswire; manage a small group of freelance writers.
January-August 2006: Freelance Writer, Evanston and Chicago, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin
-Regular contributor to The A.V. Club‚ Chicago edition (March-August 2006); my pieces have also appeared in Online Journalism Review, The Beachwood Reporter, and NewCity.
April 2006-August 2006: Reporting Intern, Better Government Association, Chicago, Illinois
-Assisted with investigative reporting of local- and state-government watchdog group.
-Provided reporting that strengthened an investigation into the misuse of public resources in a Chicago suburb.
September 2005-August 2006: Research, Evanston, Illinois
-Assisted Craig LaMay, Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, with a research project on presidential debates.
January 2006-March 2006: The Onion A.V. Club‚ Chicago, Illinois
-Editorial assistant for local edition of weekly entertainment paper. Wrote local restaurant features, produced weekly entertainment calendars and transcribed interviews.
August 2005-February 2006: NUviews‚Evanston, Illinois
-Deputy editor, copy chief for bi-quarterly student-run magazine. Developed and guided story ideas; copy-edited all content; enterprised several long-form opinion and Q&A pieces.
June-September 2005: Research, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois
-Research assistant for Robert K. Elder, entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune. Researched anecdotes for an oral history of the death penalty; transcribed interviews.
January—March 2005: Orlando Sentinel‚ Orlando, Kissimmee and Tavares, Florida
-General-assignment reporter. Helped produce nationally syndicated coverage of the shooting death of a local police officer. Wrote daily news stories and obituaries for Local & State section and several county sections.
January 2003-December 2004 and April 2005-September 2005: The Daily Northwestern‚ Evanston, Illinois
-Editing, reporting, photography, primarily in local news; some entertainment work as well.
Skills, etc.
-I've been turning in clean copy for years and I know how to adapt my writing and reporting to a publication's specific needs, how to make deadlines and how to work with editors. I'm strong on AP style and a stickler for good grammar and usage. I also like to think I'm good at understanding the people I have to work with and doing what I can to make their jobs easier, be they line editors, copy editors, designers, or photographers, or anything else. And that's about as close to management-speak as I get, I promise.
-Computer stuff: I'm competent with Word, Excel, FileMaker, Quark Copy Desk, Quark XPress, Photoshop, HTML, various blog platforms.
Education
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
-Bachelor of Science in Journalism completed December 2005
-Dean's List
-3.5 cumulative GPA
References
I'm happy to provide references if asked. Email me
Work Experience
August 2006-Present: Madison City Editor, The Onion A.V. Club, Madison, Wisconsin
-Write and edit entertainment and food coverage for local print edition; contribute items to A.V. Club's online newswire; manage a small group of freelance writers.
January-August 2006: Freelance Writer, Evanston and Chicago, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin
-Regular contributor to The A.V. Club‚ Chicago edition (March-August 2006); my pieces have also appeared in Online Journalism Review, The Beachwood Reporter, and NewCity.
April 2006-August 2006: Reporting Intern, Better Government Association, Chicago, Illinois
-Assisted with investigative reporting of local- and state-government watchdog group.
-Provided reporting that strengthened an investigation into the misuse of public resources in a Chicago suburb.
September 2005-August 2006: Research, Evanston, Illinois
-Assisted Craig LaMay, Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, with a research project on presidential debates.
January 2006-March 2006: The Onion A.V. Club‚ Chicago, Illinois
-Editorial assistant for local edition of weekly entertainment paper. Wrote local restaurant features, produced weekly entertainment calendars and transcribed interviews.
August 2005-February 2006: NUviews‚Evanston, Illinois
-Deputy editor, copy chief for bi-quarterly student-run magazine. Developed and guided story ideas; copy-edited all content; enterprised several long-form opinion and Q&A pieces.
June-September 2005: Research, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois
-Research assistant for Robert K. Elder, entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune. Researched anecdotes for an oral history of the death penalty; transcribed interviews.
January—March 2005: Orlando Sentinel‚ Orlando, Kissimmee and Tavares, Florida
-General-assignment reporter. Helped produce nationally syndicated coverage of the shooting death of a local police officer. Wrote daily news stories and obituaries for Local & State section and several county sections.
January 2003-December 2004 and April 2005-September 2005: The Daily Northwestern‚ Evanston, Illinois
-Editing, reporting, photography, primarily in local news; some entertainment work as well.
Skills, etc.
-I've been turning in clean copy for years and I know how to adapt my writing and reporting to a publication's specific needs, how to make deadlines and how to work with editors. I'm strong on AP style and a stickler for good grammar and usage. I also like to think I'm good at understanding the people I have to work with and doing what I can to make their jobs easier, be they line editors, copy editors, designers, or photographers, or anything else. And that's about as close to management-speak as I get, I promise.
-Computer stuff: I'm competent with Word, Excel, FileMaker, Quark Copy Desk, Quark XPress, Photoshop, HTML, various blog platforms.
Education
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
-Bachelor of Science in Journalism completed December 2005
-Dean's List
-3.5 cumulative GPA
References
I'm happy to provide references if asked. Email me
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