Holly Setter

Current

• Editor-in-Chief for The Pleiad at Albion College
• Writer for the Communications Office at Albion College
• Student Web manager for the Alumni Office at Albion College

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Past

• Reporter at The Sanilac County News
• The Pleiad Web Editor at Albion College
• Editorial Assistant at GalleryWatch

• Intern at The Lapeer County Press
• The Pleiad News Editor at Albion College
• The Pleiad Senior Writer at Albion College
• Political Science research assistant at Albion College

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Education

• Albion College
• Georgetown University

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Holly Setter’s Summary

I just completed an internship in Washington, D.C., working for GalleryWatch, an online legislative tracking company. While there, I covered Congressional hearings (with a focus on the Senate) for GalleryWatch, as well as its sister publication CongressNow. I also contributed to Roll Call newspaper, gathered testimony from hearings to be posted on the Web and assisted with GalleryWatch's Web site maintenence.

Prior to that, I had interned at The Lapeer County Press, where I covered a variety of stories that ran on the news, features, community, business, and sports pages.

The bulk of my journalistic experience has been at my college paper, The Pleiad. I've held the positions of staff writer, senior writer, news editor, Web editor and I will be serving as Editor-in-Chief of the paper this fall. In these positions, I have been responsible for covering the Student Senate and administration beat, managing as many as ten writers, editing stories, page lineups and layouts, Web design and guiding the entire staff of the paper.

While working for The Pleiad, I have won numerous awards, including the Roxanna Sayre Endowed Scholarship in Environmental Journalism and two Michigan Press Association College awards (first place investigative reporting in a Division II paper, second place column in a Division II paper).

I intend to work as a government reporter upon graduation. Ideally, I would love to return to Washington, D.C., to continue reporting on Congress at either a newspaper or an online publication.

Holly Setter’s Specialties:

Governmental reporting, editing, AP style, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Web design, typing speed of 70 wpm

Holly Setter’s Experience

• Editor-in-Chief for The Pleiad

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2008 — Present (2 months)

  I am responsible for overseeing the content, design, and general direction of The Pleiad. In this position, I am responsible for guiding 5 section editors and roughly 6 staff writers.

• Writer for the Communications Office

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  I write wrap stories on special guests to campus, as well as maintain a blog that is available on the Albion College News Web site.

• Student Web manager for the Alumni Office

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  I maintain the Albion College Alumni Web site, as well as all of its subsites, which include the Homecoming, Commencement, Little Sibs, and Family Day sites. Maintenence of these sites requires photo editing, writing content, and Web design.

• Reporter

  The Sanilac County News

  (Newspapers industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

  I reported on the bi-monthy meetings of the Marlette City Council, and did some freelance photography for the annual special feature "24 Hours in Sanilac County."

• The Pleiad Web Editor

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

  I redesigned and restructured The Pleiad's Web site to increase functionality and make it more asthetically pleasing.

• Editorial Assistant

  GalleryWatch

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

  I covered US Congressional hearings, with a focus on the Senate, gathered testimony from Congressional hearings, assisted with maintaining the GalleryWatch website, and created contact sheets.

• Intern

  The Lapeer County Press

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry)

  December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)

  I wrote stories for a number of sections, including news, features, community, business, and sports, using both telephone and in-person interviews, and, on occasion, I supplied the photographs for my stories.

• The Pleiad News Editor

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)

  I was responsible for creating the story and photo line-ups for the News page, editing all content for the News page, laying out the News page, and writing articles, with an emphasis on administration.

• The Pleiad Senior Writer

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

  I wrote articles for the News page, with a focus on the Student Senate and administration beat. While in this position, I won two Michigan Press Association College awards: first place for an investigative article in a Division II paper, and second place for a column in a Division II paper.

• Political Science research assistant

  Albion College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)

  I assisted Dr. Andrew Schlewitz with his research on the link between religion and government during the Cold War by reading and summarizing declassified government documents from the Eisenhower library, and cataloguing them in EndNote.

Holly Setter’s Education

• Albion College

  BA, English, Political Science, Journalism, Public Policy, 2005 — 2009 (expected)

  Distinguished Albion Scholars Program participant, won the Roxanna Sayre Endowed Scholarship for Environmental Journalism in 2007, multiple semesters on the Dean's List

  Activities and Societies:

  Sigma Tau Delta, Pi Sigma Alpha, The Ford Institute of Public Policy and Service, Ford Council representative, Adopt-A-Classroom, Junior Achievement instructor, British Eighth Marching Band, Albion College Symphonic Band, and Student Alumni Association

• Georgetown University

  2008 — 2008

  I attended Georgetown for the Spring 2008 semester as a part of The Fund for American Studies Capital Semester on Political Journalism. While there I took Economics and Public Policy Problems, Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, and a Political Journalism Seminar, in addition to completing an internship at GalleryWatch.
  
  I was put on the Dean's List for my semester at Georgetown.

  Activities and Societies:

  The Capital Semester on Political Journalism

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