
Editor at Tahoe Daily Tribune
Reno, Nevada Area

Editor at Tahoe Daily Tribune
Reno, Nevada Area
I am the news editor at the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza. A recent University of Nevada, Reno graduate, I have interned with the Associated Press, the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun. For two years I was the editor in chief of the award-winning college newspaper, The Nevada Sagebrush.
Writing, reporting, editing, page layout, audio editing, video editing, leadership and management.
Proficient in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Quark
Experience with Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver and Audacity
Trained to cover wildfires by Reno Police Department
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
• Supervise reporters, photographers, section editors and copy editors.
• Assign multimedia, photography and stories.
• Budget news section daily, and communicates budgets to sister papers.
• Assist and directs sports department as needed.
• Is the first editor for news copy.
• Update website.
• Coordinate breaking news workflow for web and print.
• Plan website promotions.
• Write enterprise stories on regular basis.
• Write web updates as news dictates.
• Manage deadlines.
• Cover copy desk shifts as needed.
• Develop newsroom policies.
• Manage special projects as assigned.
(Newspapers industry)
September 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 3 months)
Manage newsroom including budgets, story execution and two reporters
Layout and edit pages for paper product
Meet daily deadlines for online and print edition
Write environtmental/county beat, five to nine articles a week
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Balanced quick coverage of spot news and enterprise reporting on a daily basis
Covered a variety of topics from court cases to elephant herpes to Harry Potter
Developed original enterprise storiesFilled in as night broadcast supervisor. Reported breaking news and wrote daily events in broadcast style.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; GCI; Newspapers industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
Worked as a general assignment reporter for a morning daily
Filled in as a night police reporter for a month, responsible for nightly calls and crime stories
Localized national stories, wrote feature stories, and met tight daily and Web deadlines
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)
Worked as a general assignment reporter for an afternoon daily in a competitive market
Reported and wrote stories for early street-edition deadline
Wrote crime, community and feature stories
B.A. , Journalism , 2003 — 2007
Journalism, Politics, Management, Reading, Knitting, Fashion.
Swift Communications