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Resume 

Experience:

Orlando Business Journal, reporter, December 2016 to present 

  • I cover economic development, transportation and hospitals in the region. 

  • I create my own galleries and videos and promote my stories on social media

 

WKMG News 6 Clickorlando.com, web and news intern, Spring 2016 

  • I worked in a fast-pace environment where there is constant breaking news. I quickly and accurately wrote stories while pulling videos from various news shows we had throughout the day. 

 

Central Florida Future, digital producer, Spring 2016​​

  • I created photo galleries and videos for online content. 

 

Orlando Business Journal, news intern, Summer 2015  

  • I created numerous stories for both online and print from interviewing CEOs and owners of small businesses. 

 

Central Florida Future, senior staff entertainment writer, Spring 2015

 

  • I photographed and wrote entertainment stories for online and in print. 

 

Knight News, UCF's online news website, Contributor since Fall 2014

 

Bonnier Corporation, Scuba Diving magazine and Sport Diver magazine, Summer 2014 digital internship

 

  • My duties included: scheduling posts on social media websites, creating online photo galleries and articles, developing unique content and creating video galleries.

 

  • Primarily used Hootsuite, Shutterstock, Thinkstock, Bitly and Photoshop to complete my duties. 

 

Watermark Media Inc., Watermark magazine, Summer 2014 editorial internship

 

  • Watermark magazine is Orlando’s LGBT magazine.

 

  • I created online articles using WordPress and covered numerous events.

 

Hypeorlando, LGBT lifestyle blog Lez Talk, February 2014 to Present

 

  • It’s a blogging community for Orlando and the most viewed blogs are featured on the Orlando Sentinel’s site.

 

  • I blogged about what it’s like to be lesbian in today’s society, relationships, gay events and more. 

 

HypeOrlando, food blog Crave Central, February 2014 to June 2014

 

  • This was the first blog created on Hypeorlando.

 

  • I blogged about restaurants, events and food news related to Orlando.

 

Contributing writer, Central Florida Future, August 2013-Present

 

Food blogger, Central Florida Future, Spring 2014

 

  • The Central Florida Future is the University of Central Florida’s student newspaper that publishes twice weekly. It’s a print and online publication. 

·         The food blog is called Orlando’s Tastebuds. I blogged about the food scene and events in Orlando and close to the campus.

 

The Institute of Financial Operations, Financial Ops magazine, internship Spring 2014

 

  • My primary duties include: contributing articles both online and in print, editing articles, suggesting headlines, posting articles to the site and organizing istock photos. 

 

Visual team member and Marketing team member, Centric, Fall 2013 semester

 

  • Centric magazine is published each fall and spring by the Nicholson School and is produced by the students in the journalism program’s Magazine Editing and Production course taught by Rick Brunson. It’s a print and online publication.

 

  • The story I covered is titled, “Creating Nightmares.” My subject for the story is on the front cover. I also designed the page for the story “Solar Spinner.”

·         I video graphed fire eating and fire dancing at Red Lion Pub for Centric’s online material.

 

Contributing writer, The Hawkeye, September 2013

 

  • Hillsborough Community College’s student newspaper

  • I covered Westboro Baptist Church protest at UCF. It was on the first page. I Photographed students protesting against WBC. The article was also on The Hawkeye’s homepage, Hawkeyenews.com.

Awards: 

  • Florida Press Association, second place in First Amendment defense category 2016, Orlando Business Journal’s “Chambers of commerce”

  • Florida College System Publications Association, third place in news photo category for the 2014 Newspaper Competition, The Hawkeye’s “UCF Knights take on Westboro”

Education:

 

  • B.A., Journalism, expected fall 2016, University of Central Florida

  • Minor in digital media 

  • Member, UCF Society of Professional Journalists

  • Received general A.A. degree from Hillsborough Community College in 2013

 

Skills:

 

  • Scheduling social media posts using Hootsuite and Bitly

  • Knowledge in Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and InDesign

  • Using Thinkstock, istock, Shutterstock

  • Knowledge in control management systems (Ex. Drupal, End Play, Blox, Presto, WordPress) 

  • Creativity 

  • AP Style 

 

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