[download pdf, with references, instead] design and graphics experience The St. Petersburg Times and tampabay.com | St. Petersburg, Fla. | circulation 400,000 Multimedia artist and Web editor | Dec. 2008 - present Duties include and working with reporters, editors and other artists to create interactive graphics for tampabay.com using GIS, Flash, CSS and HTML. Home page editing duties include managing content for tampabay.com, editing slide shows, and writing headlines. Previously: news art intern | July 2008 - Nov. 2008 The Poynter Institute | St. Petersburg, Fla. Summer Fellowship for Young Journalists | June-July 2008 Participated in an intensive six-week fellowship combining seminars and story production in a newsroom setting. Worked with a team of journalists to report and design interactive content for team projects. The Columbia Missourian | Columbia, Mo. | circulation 7,000 Designer, graphic artist and teacher’s assistant | Jan.-May 2007 and Aug. 2007-May 2008 Designed Weekend Missourian cover story packages in print and online, daily covers and features. Helped manage graphics staff and taught GIS. The Tulsa World | Tulsa, Okla. | circulation 140,000 Design intern | May-August 2007 Designed features, 1A and special sections. Worked with high school journalists to plan and design an award-winning weekly section. The Maneater | Columbia, Mo. | circulation 9,000 Production Manager, designer | January 2005-May 2006 and Aug-May 2006 Managed a staff of designers for a bi-weekly, award-winning student newspaper, designed the front page and coordinated special sections. editing and writing experience The Columbia Missourian | Columbia, Mo. | circulation 7,000 Copy editor and teacher’s assistant, reporter | May-Aug 2006, Jan.-May 2007, Aug. 2007-May 2008 Oversaw weekly copy editing shifts for begining editing students, posted stories and the homepage of ColumbiaMissourian.com. The Daily Sentinel | Grand Junction, Colo. | circulation 40,000 Reporting intern, freelance writer | Aug. 2003-Aug. 2004 Wrote a weekly restaurant column and general-assignment stories. education The University of Missouri | Columbia, Mo. Bachelor of Journalism, News Editorial | Honors graduate, May 2008 Minor in geography and a Geographic Information Systems certificate awards and honors Society for News Design Multimedia Competition | Region 3 2009 second quarter regional winner for an interactive multimedia story about supervisor of elections who spent taxpayer money on ads. Society for News Design Intern Competition | Boston | 2007 One of 10 finalists in SND’s second-annual intern competition SND Student Chapter | Missouri | President, Aug 2007-May 2008 Helped coordinate and blog 2008 student design contest. SND Student Design Competition | 2008 First place | daily newspaper information graphic skills ESRI ArcGIS and other mapping software, XHTML and CSS, Adobe Creative Suite, Flash Action Script 2 and 3, Database management with Microsoft Excel and Access Escenic and Django-based content management systems
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