Plan, produce and organize interactive and in depth news content for a news Web site.
KnoxNews.com - Knoxville News Sentinel Web site
Knoxville, Tenn. Oct 2002 - present
ONLINE EDITOR (previously Senior Online Producer, Online Producer)
General duties: Update and maintain the family of Web sites for KnoxNews.com
with breaking news and appropriate stories, photos, links, polls and features.
Create archived special sections.
Create multimedia to enhance the site and to complement special projects.
Work with colleagues in presenting news in a new and innovative way online.
Go on assignment to record audio, shoot video or photos to add to KnoxNews.com.
Respond to user email; communicate with newsroom and advertising staff;
site maintenance.
Accomplishments while at KnoxNews.com:
Integral in launching a paid sports site, GoVolsXtra.com, which has 3,500
subscribers.
Ensured a smooth switch to site registration.
Implemented Movable Type blog software on the site and trained staff to
use it.
Conceived and created special evergreen sections including a photographer
gallery site, East Tennessee's Best database, archived photography, interactive
sections that complement print series, helpful HTML and PhotoShop templates.
Collaborated on projects that won eight Scripps-wide monthly awards in
Multimedia.
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy editing intern at Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service - Washington, D.C. Summer 2002
Production intern at Philly.com - Philadelphia, Pa. 2001-2002
Visual Edge 2001 workshop intern at The Poynter Institute - St. Petersburg, Fla., October 2001.
Editorial and production intern at Time.com - New York, Summer 2001
Wed editorial intern at Lapidary Journal and Colored Stone - Devon, Pa., Spring 2001
Editorial intern at Philadelphia Weekly - Philadelphia, Pa., 2000-2001
Online editor of the Temple News (editorially independent student newspaper
of Temple University) - Philadelphia, Pa., 2002
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA 1999 - 2002
School of Communications and Theater
Major: Journalism, with a concentration in New Media
Graduation date: May 2002
G.P.A.: 3.91 (major) 3.69 (cumulative)
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA 1998-1999
(Formerly Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science)
Major: General Studies
Proficient with Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Adobe PhotoShop, Cool Edit, Paintshop Pro, TopStyle, Microsoft Office, Quark Xpress, (on both Macintosh and IBM compatible computers). Knowledgeable with Flash MX, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro. Comfortable shooting video (Canon XL 1), taking still digital photos, 360-degree photos and recording audio.
Extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS.
Newspaper Association of America Minority Fellow - 2004.
Employee of the Month; Employee of the Quarter - Knoxville News Sentinel. 2004.
Kappa Tau Alpha (National Journalism Honor Society), 2001.
Dean's List, 1998 - 2002.
Best New Member of the Year - Student Government, 1999.