EXPERIENCE
Sports Reporter, Antelope Valley Press, Palmdale, Calif.
August 2016-PRESENT
- Cover high school, junior college and university sports
- Cover Lancaster JetHawks, the Colorado Rockies’ minor league baseball team
- Cover NBA games, write features on players with local ties as needed
- Record, edit and post athlete videos to paper’s Twitter account
- Covered the Los Angeles Clippers’ 2016-17 playoff run against the Utah Jazz
Staff Writer, Assistant Editor, Malibu Surfside News, Malibu, Calif.
October 2013-August 2016
- Responsible for average of 15 pieces of written content per week
- Helped Editor plan content for weekly paper
- Posted to and update website
- Managed sports section and cove all high school sports
- Managed Twitter account and grow following
- Wrote stories for local news, sports and features on community members
- Shot, edited and captioned photos for weekly print and online publication
- Covered important events in a small community, such as a triathlon where local high school boy won first place, and high school swim team winning a league championship
Staff Reporter, News Editor, Cal State Northridge Daily Sundial, Northridge, Calif.
August 2013-December 2014
- Wrote stories and took photos for campus events, breaking news, sporting events and features on students and faculty, some of which made the front page of the print product
- Covered the Big West Tournament where basketball team almost advanced to the NCAA Tournament; stories were posted online before the school’s official recaps
- Planned, assigned and edited stories for the daily print product and website
- Wrote short, catchy headlines for print product and informational, SEO-centric headlines for online product
- Copyedited stories in each section for accuracy, grammatical errors and flow
News Intern, Santa Monica Daily Press, Santa Monica, Calif.
January 2013-June 2013
- Wrote stories, news and community briefs and headlines for news, sportsand feature stories, which sometimes made the front page
- Wrote news and community briefs
- Wrote listings for the Events section, updated movie timesfor the Movie section and transcribed reader voicemails for Q-Line section
Staff Writer, Arts & Entertainment Editor, Santa Monica College The Corsair, Santa Monica, Calif.
August 2012-June 2013
- Wrote stories and shot photos for News, Sports, Opinionand Arts & Entertainment sections, which made the front page on several occasions
- Covered the space shuttle Endeavour’s three-day journey from LAX to theCalifornia Science Center, the LA Marathon and the 2012 Presidential election
- Assigned and edited stories for print and online product
- Edited raw copy for grammar, punctuation and accuracy
- Wrote headlines for stories that were publishedEDUCATION
EDUCATION
- Cal State Northridge, Northridge, Calif., Journalism
SKILLS
- AP style
- Photo editing with Adobe Photoshop
- Page design with Adobe InDesign
- Video editing with Final Cut Pro, iMovie and Adobe Premiere Pro
- Creating infographics
- Data visualization
- Google Analytics
- Search Engine Optimization
- HTML and CSS
- Social Media Management
- Fluent in English and Spanish, with beginning proficiency in French
- Proficient with Mac and Windows operating systems
