Dagny Salas

Current

Investigative fellow at Voice of San Diego.org

Past

Student Investigator at The Medill Innocence Project
Program Participant at The New York Times
City desk intern at The Hartford Courant
Investigative intern at St Petersburg Times
Web news intern at USA TODAY
Production Intern at Univision

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Education

Northwestern University

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Industry

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Dagny Salas’s Summary

I graduated from the Medill School of Journalism in June 2009. I am spending a year as an investigative reporter at www.voiceofsandiego.org, an award-winning, online only, non-profit, investigative newsroom in San Diego.

Dagny Salas’s Specialties:

Fluent in Spanish.

Proficient in Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, Avid, Wordpress, Movable Type, Type Pad, HTML, SlideShowPro Director, Soundslides, Audacity, InfranView, CCI, XML Editor.

Knowledge of Adobe Flash and InDesign, CSS, PHP and Brightcove software.

Dagny Salas’s Experience

Investigative fellow

Voice of San Diego.org

(Online Media industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

I am spending the year working on investigative projects, daily enterprise stories and breaking news for www.voiceofsandiego.org, an award-winning, online non-profit news site.
Metro Intern

The Washington Post

(Public Company; Newspapers industry)

June 2009 — September 2009 (4 months)

I covered stories on immigration and local government and politics in Virginia, Maryland and the District for the Metro and A section of the Post, and local news for the tabloid community section in Prince William County bureau in Manassas. This including an A1 double bylined national story on border kidnappings where I used my bilingual Spanish skills.
Student

Northwestern University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2005 — June 2009 (3 years 10 months)

I graduated from the Medill School of Journalism in June 2009 after starting an awarding-winning online news site, North by Northwestern.
Fellow

The Poynter Institute

(Non-Profit; Newspapers industry)

May 2009 — May 2009 (1 month)

I was 1 of 40 students to participate in intensive multimedia training, workshops and reporting projects over 2 weeks.
Student Investigator

The Medill Innocence Project

(Research industry)

January 2009 — March 2009 (3 months)

I was 1 of 4 students who investigated a suspected wrongful conviction case from the early 1990s involving Chicago gang violence. While working on this case, I traveled to low-income neighborhoods on the South Side and Gary, Ind., and also various state prisons to interview often reluctant sources. I also researched criminal and civil records at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse on 26th and California and the Daley Center and attended relevant court hearings.
Program Participant

The New York Times

(Public Company; NYT; Newspapers industry)

January 2009 — January 2009 (1 month)

I was 1 of 20 students to participate in a New York Times Student Journalism Institute in which I posted content to the web, produced daily stories on deadline (as well as took my own photos), and produced an in-depth story for a site and 14-page newspaper over 10 days. Here is the url to my story on the tomato market in Florida: http://www.nytimes-institute.com/miami09/2009/01/09/an-early-abundant-crop-has-tomato-farmers-on-edge/
City desk intern

The Hartford Courant

(Public Company; TRB; Newspapers industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

I covered education, business, political races, city hall, labor disputes, community news, courts and breaking crime news for the city of Hartford.
Investigative intern

St Petersburg Times

(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)

I was the lead reporter on an investigation into a local toxic groundwater contamination case; had exclusive A1 story on faulty DEP regulations; researched 10,000 relevant documents; organized timelines, maps, research information and data into a wiki for the investigative team; covered community news for twice-weekly tabloid Neighborhood Times. Here is the url for my A1 story: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/article520569.ece
Web news intern

USA TODAY

(Public Company; GCI; Newspapers industry)

June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

I posted breaking news stories and updates, managed wires, wrote headlines and brief synopses, chose and edited images, built photo galleries and tables, researched and added links to related pieces, added sidebars and graphics.
Production Intern

Univision

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

July 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 2 months)

At WLTV-23 in Miami, I filmed and produced on location locally during the World Cup and NBA Finals, assisted reporters and photographers in the field, updated databases, logged and edited video for broadcast, wrote supers, downloaded video from satellite feed.

Dagny Salas’s Education

Northwestern University

BSJ , Journalism , 2005 — 2009

Activities and Societies:

I started North by Northwestern, an award-winning online newsmagazine with a handful of friends. www.northbynorthwestern.com

Additional Information

Dagny Salas’s Websites:

News mag I Helped Start @ NU

Dagny Salas’s Interests:

News, reporting, writing, potential news applicability of social media/Web 2.0/marketing/business tools, online media, tech blogs, legal studies, traveling, music, movies, photography