Alina Dain Sharon

Resume

• Reporting on national and global issues important to the American Jewish community; covering politics, Jewish life, Israel and the Palestinian conflict, and more.
• Managing the redesign process of JNS.org, and introducing multimedia elements to the news website; managing social networking pages for the organization; establishing contacts with Jewish newspapers across the country to increase the number of JNS subscribers.

• Analyzing American news media and maintaining a daily newsletter on topics relevant to German-U.S. relations.
• Writing and editing for the English website of the consulate; Managing the consulate’s Facebook page; promoting news from Germany and the European Union via the social network on topics ranging from culture to science, environment and climate research.

• Managed the production of College News magazine and Collegenews.com; hired and managed 30 freelance writers, and five in-house interns; written and edited feature stories for the magazine and news articles for the web.
• Doubled the traffic of Collegenews.com to 200,000 unique monthly visitors and increased the page rank of the website from 5 to 7 utilizing widgets and search engine optimization techniques; managed College News social networking pages.

• Reported on development, science and culture issues for the English language news website; translated foreign language articles for publishing.
• Reported and edited radio packages; produced and hosted 30-minute radio programs.

• Covering cultural and political developments for a Berlin-based newspaper.

• Studied German media at the Freie Universität Berlin; Interned at a Berlin weekly newspaper; published news articles in German.

• Reported breaking and feature stories using text, video and Flash for the health and science newsroom of Medill Reports.
• Worked in a team of eight to reinvent the content and structure of Legacy.com, one of the nation's 100 most visited websites; conducted audience research and worked as editor of the project blog.

• Fact checked, copy edited, researched and wrote several stories for the Rotarian Magazine.
• Set up and maintained Rotary International social networking pages.

• Composed, edited and designed an online email newsletter on business and law.
• Researched and wrote articles on business and legal topics.

• Conducted research, reviewed foreign language books for publication, edited manuscripts.

• Fluent in Hebrew and Russian; proficient in French and German.

• Adobe Creative Suite CS4 (Flash, Premiere Elements, Photoshop, InDesign); HTML, CSS and Dreamweaver; Microsoft Office; Expression Engine and other content management systems.