Lauren Spuhler

Current

• Adjunct at University of Tennessee
• Online producer at Knoxville News Sentinel

Education

• Northwestern University
• Syracuse University
• Wildwood High School

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Lauren Spuhler’s Experience

• Adjunct

  University of Tennessee

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Created syllabus and coursework to teach multimedia tools and trends to journalism students.

• Online producer

  Knoxville News Sentinel

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ssp; Newspapers industry)

  February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Job involves shooting and editing video, photos; capturing and editing audio; packaging breaking news coverage on knoxnews.com; promoting stories via social networks; training staff to shoot and edit video and use site CMS.

Lauren Spuhler’s Education

• Northwestern University

  Master's , Multimedia journalism , 2003 — 2004

• Syracuse University

  B.A. , Magazine journalism, English , 1999 — 2003

  Dean's scholar

  Activities and Societies:

  The Daily Orange, WJPZ student radio station

• Wildwood High School

  1995 — 1999

Additional Information

Lauren Spuhler’s Honors:

2008 Lighthouse Award (company-wide award given to an individual employee by Scripps)
2008 Best of Scripps quarterly award for multimedia - Songs of Appalachia
2008 Best of Scripps quarterly award for enterprise reporting - SmartFIX40 project
2008 SPJ award for Bonnaroo coverage (East Tenn. SPJ)
2008 NAA DigitalEdge Award for best overall news site for knoxnews.com
Employee of the quarter at the Knoxville News Sentinel (November 2007)
2007 Scripps internal video competition winner
2006 NAA DigitalEdge Award for RandomThis video-blog
2006 Green Eyeshade first place winner for Best Use of Multimedia for "Sweet 15" video package