Journalism Experience

• Copy edit local and wire stories to fit both AP Style and the style of The Durango Herald
• Design news pages using essential elements such as headlines, photos, cutlines, breakout boxes, etc.
• Use creative elements such as art heds, (stock) photos, etc., to bring life and color to section fronts
• Budget time wisely to ensure pages are creative, effective and sent by deadline
• Pushed newspaper to more involvement on the Internet by starting a Twitter account (@DurangoHerald)

• Supervised group of four to six student copy editors once a week during nightside shift
• Posted news stories online and update daily home page on ColumbiaMissourian.com
• Strengthened students' editing skills by addressing errors in their work and suggesting methods to avoid further mistakes

• Designed the front page (1A) during nightside shift once a week
• Efficiently arranged elements on the page to maintain the paper's functionality, and creatively to capture the reader's attention
• Applied traditional techniques of modular design and headline hierarchy while keeping lookout for new elements to add freshness to the page

• Assisted in five major departments over course of four months
• News/Sports desk: Followed modular design principles and AP style to design and edit five to six pages a day
• Features: Applied creative design techniques to layout features pages for weekly entertainment and travel magazines
• Photo: Transfered photos into wire services and worked photo toning to correspond with various international presses
• Web: Uploaded local stories from print editions to Stripes.com using basic (X)HTML coding

• Copy edited opinion and feature stories during dayside shifts an average of 15 hours a week
• Edited stories daily for Web site updates and news bursts
• Wrote headlines, sub-headlines, photo captions, story teasers, etc., as well as trimmed wire stories and letters to the editor to fit the desired style of the Missourian.

Education

Work Experience

• Manage daily shifts to ensure all career specialists are on task
• Review and strengthen students' and community members' resumes and other business letters
• Aid students in the search for experience or employment for pre- and post-graduation
• Administer assessments to guide students in an occupational direction based off of their interests, abilities and values

Skills

Honors and Activities