Anne-Marie McReynolds

Past

• Photojournalist at Collective Roots
• Multimedia Producer at Tribune Broadcasting
• Staff Photojournalist & Picture Editor at San Jose Mercury News

• Member at San Jose Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 39098
• Project Manager at KIPP Heartwood Academy

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Education

• San Jose State University
• Stanford University

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Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Summary

Content strategist (user research, style guides, editorial workflow), lead writer/editor, and information architect (IA) for nonprofit media startups. Former staff photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for five years and later pursued citizen journalism as a Newstex blogger syndicated via LexisNexis.

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Specialties:

Advanced certification in blogging, social media, lead conversion, lead nurturing, and closed-loop analysis. HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MySQL. Final Cut Pro Studio 6 (SoundTrack Pro, Compressor). Able to master new systems with ease.

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Experience

• Photojournalist

  Collective Roots

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

  • Investigate racial/ethnic health disparities in East Palo Alto—home to one of the most densely populated immigrant communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
  • Employ crowd sourcing and other collaborative journalism methods into newsgathering process. Direct a reporting network of university-level Minority Public Health Fellows and high school-level Youth Health Advocates.
  
  • Devise and implement strategies for disseminating public health information (in Spanish and English) to at-risk populations and policymakers.
  
  • Create original content for various multimedia-rich educational Web sites developed by Collective Roots; distribute news to mainstream media outlets.

• Multimedia Producer

  Tribune Broadcasting

  (Public Company; TRB; Broadcast Media industry)

  March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)

  • Produced daily traffic logs for KTLA-TV and maintained programming data for Sales and Promotion Departments.
  
  • Analyzed outbound marketing campaign performance to identify, prioritize and execute on opportunities for improvement in marketing effectiveness.
  
  • Provided expert advice in the areas of collaborative journalism, online community building and social media optimization for KTLA.com.

• Staff Photojournalist & Picture Editor

  San Jose Mercury News

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  2002 — 2007 (5 years )

  SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (circ: 240,000)
  
  • Reported on stories and produced audio, video and photo content for the newspaper and its Web site.
  
  • Edited use of photography for international, national, and local news in the paper's front section while coordinating with editors and designers to produce multimedia packages.
  
  • Shared 2005 Executive Editor’s Award for Hurricane Katrina coverage including on-the-ground reporting; embedded with the California National Guard.
  
  • Photography instructor and 1994 graduate: Mosaic, a Mercury News workshop at San Jose State University for minority high school students.

• Member

  San Jose Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 39098

  (Online Media industry)

  2002 — 2007 (5 years )

• Project Manager

  KIPP Heartwood Academy

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  * Launched a Literacy Through Photography Program for ESL fifth and sixth grade students at KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Heartwood Academy (a charter school) incorporating youth development model.
  
  * Fund-raised for program operation including online community, public exhibition and live auction. Secured camera donations from Kodak plus $20,000 in donations and $2,500 in grants.
  
  * Solicited voluntary involvement of professional journalists from San Francisco Bay Area media organizations. Five college interns instructed 100 students while 20 professionals served as mentors.

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Education

• San Jose State University

  MLIS , Information Description and Organization, Web Design and Technology , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

  4.0 GPA

• Stanford University

  AB, BA , Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (Honors) and Studio Art & Art History , 1995 — 2000

  • Won the Louis Sudler Prize in the Humanities and Creative Arts (2000)

Additional Information

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Honors:

• Placed second in 2006 Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition in newspaper editing division for multiple page feature story.

• Awarded second team prize for “Best Use, Interactive Publication/Media” and shared Honorable Mention in “Picture Editor of the Year” category in 2005 National Press Photographers’ Best of Photojournalism contest.

• Named a Visual Journalism Fellow by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and a Visual Task Force Fellow by the National Association of Black Journalists.

• Work featured in "LIFE: Year in Pictures," 2001.