Katharine Lackey

Current

• Copy Editor at The News Leader

Past

• Copy Editor, Reporter at The Daily Collegian
• News Intern at USA TODAY
• AARP.org Editorial Intern at AARP

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Education

• Pennsylvania State University

Connections

61 connections

Industry

Newspapers

Katharine Lackey’s Summary

Journalism student with experience reporting for The Daily Collegian, USA Today and AARP. Particularly interested in print as well as online journalism, especially blogging.

Katharine Lackey’s Specialties:

Blogging, photojournalism, basic HTML, Photoshop, Audacity, Word, Excel and Quark

Katharine Lackey’s Experience

• Copy Editor

  The News Leader

  (Newspapers industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Copy Editor, Reporter

  The Daily Collegian

  (Newspapers industry)

  September 2006 — May 2009 (2 years 9 months)

• News Intern

  USA TODAY

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GCI; Newspapers industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

  • News Intern: Nationalized stories for the nation's highest circulation newspaper; conducted research on trends; provided feeds to other reporters on a number of states; compiled and edited an 'Across the USA' chart for a special charity section; compiled a state-by-state look at bridge conditions a year after the Minneapolis bridge collapse; remained on the correspondents’ staff as a freelancer through the school year.

• AARP.org Editorial Intern

  AARP

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  • Editorial Intern: Generated feature ideas; edited text; researched topics of interest to the 50-plus demographic; helped set up video interviews; pitched stories.

Katharine Lackey’s Education

• Pennsylvania State University

  2004 — 2009

  Activities and Societies:

  The Daily Collegian

Additional Information

Katharine Lackey’s Interests:

Journalism, Photography, Politics

Katharine Lackey’s Groups:

•    Penn State College of Communications Alumni

Katharine Lackey’s Honors:

• College of Communications Dean's List: 6 semesters
• Recipient of USA Today’s Hainer Award, which recognizes the paper’s best work each day, for a state-by-state bridge chart; honorable mention for two articles in one publication.
• 2009 Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Circle Awards, 2nd place for personality profile for
"Valerie Plame talks of future" feature published in February 2008.
• Gannett Multimedia Award for class work completed in Spring 2009.

Katharine Lackey’s Contact Settings

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