Education reporter at Journal & Courier
Lafayette, Indiana Area
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- Education reporter at Journal & Courier
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- Editor at Daily Kent Stater
- Reporting intern at The Courier
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- Kent State University
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Meranda Watling’s Experience
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Education reporter
Journal & Courier
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
(Lafayette, Ind.) I cover K-12 schools and education issues in Lafayette, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County and surrounding region.
• Report and write A1 enterprise packages, timely stories for print and breaking news online. Frequently, pick up stories beyond the education beat.
• Plan and write a weekly Schools Page with news, features and Q&As about local schools. Sometimes shoot the display photos for the page.
• Maintain a schools beat blog for the newspaper's Web site.
• Serve as a newsroom representative on the New Product Development team. -
Editor
Daily Kent Stater
(Newspapers industry)
August 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 5 months)
(Kent, Ohio) Supervised an editorial staff of more than 100 members and oversaw daily production.
• Under my leadership, both the print and online editions were redesigned and content was refocused to better align with the results of a reader focus group.
• We laid the groundwork for a then soon-to-be converged newsroom by establishing a news partner relationship with the campus TV and radio stations. This included recording a daily editor's pick stand up of our top news story for the nightly TV newscast.
• Previously held positions include managing editor (2x), campus editor, public affairs reporter, technology reporter, student finance reporter and proofreader. -
Reporting intern
The Courier
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
(Findlay, Ohio) I spent the summer between junior and senior year of college covering general assignment and short feature stories in the city of Findlay and neighboring areas.
Meranda Watling’s Education
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Kent State University
Bachelor of Science , Newspaper journalism (major), Sociology (minor) , 2003 — 2006
My journalism coursework included classes in beat reporting, reporting public affairs, copy editing, news design, magazine publishing, media ethics, media law, videography and photography. As a sophomore, I also was part of the collaborative online producing class, which worked on multimedia packages for the School of Journal and Mass Communication Web site.
- Activities and Societies:
- Daily Kent Stater, Burr, Fusion, Luna Negra, Society of Professional Journalists, Alternative Break Project, Habitat for Humanity
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