Resume

Experience

March 2008-Present WRAL.com Raleigh, NC

Web producer

• Write daily news stories for WRAL.com

• Work with WRAL-TV reporters to expand stories for the Web

• Send breaking new updates

• Edit stories for AP style and grammar

• Shoot photos and videos for use with stories

• Produced a weekly Web entertainment program

March 2004 – February 2008 Associated Press Jackson, MS

Editorial Assistant /Reporter

• Write daily and weekend enterprise stories in news, education, entertainment

• Report breaking news for national and regional use

• Organize night desk and edit staff stories for print and broadcast

• Worked as a full time reporter during legislative relief 3-month position

Summer 2003 L’Observateur LaPlace, La

Staff Reporter

• Covered a variety of investigative, news and feature stories

Sept. 2002 – May 2003 The Daily Star Hammond, La

Corresponding Reporter

• Reported monthly on city council meetings

2000 – 2003 KSLU 90.9 FM Hammond, La

On Air Personality

• Provided daily entertainment updates in a program entitled “Tinseltown Trash”

1999 – 2002 The Lion’s Roar Hammond, La

Editor In Chief/ Arts and Entertainment Editor

• Wrote articles for each section and edited all stories

Skills

• Video editing and photo editing through Edius and Photoshop

• Shooting video and still photos for online and TV

• Concert photography – photographed more than 20 of the nation’s top selling artists

Education

1999 – Dec. 2003 Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, La

Major: Marketing Minor: Communications and Journalism
GPA: 3.9 Bachelor of Arts degree – Summa Cum Laude

Awards Received

• 2010 Edward R. Murrow Region 8: Best Large-Market TV Website 
• 2010 Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas award for Best Website 
• 2010 International Photography Awards honorable mention
• 2010 Editor & Publisher Eppy Award for Best Local TV/Cable-Affiliated Website
• 2010 Southeast Regional Emmy Award for continuing coverage of a news story
• 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Website
• 2004 Louisiana Press Association award for best continuing coverage
• 2003 Best College News Reporter in the South (Southeast Journalism Conference)
• 2003 Russell Carollo Investigative Reporters Award
• 2003 Top 10 Entertainment Reporter in the South (SEJC)
• 2002, 2003 Top 10 College Journalist in the South (SEJC)
• 2002, Photographer’s Forum 2002 Best of College Photography Finalist
• 2002 SLU Division of Student Affairs Woman of the Year

Organizations

National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences member, Society for Professional Journalists; Investigative Reporters and Editors member; honor organizations Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and Gamma Beta Phi; SLU Press Club President.