| EXPERIENCE |
| Aug 2010 – present |
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| Web/Print Editor, Collegenews.com & College News Magazine, Boston Hannah International |
Chicago, IL |
- Managing 20-30 freelance writers for collegenews.com; editing articles, managing the collegenews.com content management system
- Writing web news articles using keywords and other Google search engine optimization techniques; managing and updating College News social networking pages
- Planning the content and structure of the quarterly College News Magazine; assigning and editing articles; reporting and writing feature stories for the magazine
- Working in a team to redesign the structure, content and appearance of collegenews.com
| January 2010 – April 2010 |
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| Intern at Deutsche Welle |
Bonn, Germany |
- Reported on development, science and culture for online
- Translated German and other language articles for the English website
- Adapted radio packages for online; reported and mixed radio packages
- Produced and hosted Deutsche Welle radio programs
| September 2009- December 2009 |
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| Digital Innovation Project, graduate capstone at the Medill School of Journalism |
Evanston, Illinois |
- Worked in a team on content, design and marketing to reinvent Legacy.com,
one of the nation's 100 most visited websites that runs newspaper online obituary sections
- Edited class blog, www.obitresearch.com and developed plans for regular blog content; marketed and linked the blog
- Conducted audience research with in-depth interviews, online surveys and paper prototypes
- Co-produced a final report, “The State of the American Obituary”
| March 2009- August 2009 |
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| Health and science reporter for the Medill News Service |
Chicago, Illinois |
- Reported breaking and enterprise multimedia stories on health and science topics
| September 2008 – December 2008 |
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| Intern at Rotarian Magazine, Rotary International |
Evanston, Illinois |
- Fact checked, copy edited, researched and wrote several stories for the Rotarian Magazine
- Set up and maintained Rotary International pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace
| June 2008 – August 2008 |
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| Internxchange: Journalism Academic Exchange Program |
Berlin, Germany |
- Studied the politics, society, culture and media of Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin
- Worked with young journalists from the former Soviet republics on a joint article in German
- Interned at a weekly newspaper and published several articles in German
- Composed, edited and designed an online email newsletter on business and law
- Researched and wrote articles on business and legal topics
| February 2007 - May 2008 |
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Intern at Dalkey Archive Press,
publisher of contemporary literature |
Champaign, IL |
- Conducted research, reviewed foreign language books for publication, edited manuscripts
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| COMPUTER SKILLS |
- Adobe Creative Suite ( Flash CS4 Professional, Premiere Elements 7.0, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
- Basic HTML, CSS and Dreamweaver; good knowledge of audio editing programs Audacity and Dalet
- Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
- Experience working with a content management system
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