Chris Durr

Current

• Copy Writer at Martini Design

Past

• Online Promoter at The Seattle World Percussion Society
• New Media Intern at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Intern at ASNE Reporter

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Education

• Seattle Pacific University

Recommended

2 people have recommended Chris

Connections

31 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• A Byte of MySpace
• The sPI

Chris Durr’s Summary

Copywriter, Reporter, Editor, Proofreader, Videographer, Multimedia Specialist

Several years of reporting, writing, editing, and managing for a college newspaper and embarking on a one-of-a-kind year-long multimedia internship led me along the path to freelance reporting for a metropolitan daily.

Taking on another internship at a cutting-edge Web and multi-media design firm allowed me to learn a plethora of skills in a creative and challenging field.

Skills include:

- Ease of use with Adobe, Microsoft, and other software.
- Shooting still photos and video
- Writing in a variety of voices, tones, and styles: from technical and formal to relaxed and witty
- Original and thoughtful idea creation

Chris Durr’s Specialties:

Multimedia software, recording/editing visual and audio hardware, basics to html/Dreamweaver, energetic/creative writing

Chris Durr’s Experience

• Copy Writer

  Martini Design

  (Graphic Design industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Online Promoter

  The Seattle World Percussion Society

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)

  May 2008 — May 2008 (1 month)

  I coordinated social networking Web sites, wrote ad copy and helped promote the 2008 Seattle World Rhythm Festival.
  
  It was great to work with an awesome non-profit group.

• New Media Intern

  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  (Newspapers industry)

  August 2006 — June 2007 (11 months)

  My time as an intern at the Seattle P-I was spent primarily in the online world.
  
  I maintained "A Byte of MySpace," an Internet-life blog, helped write and edit content for the then-fledgling sPI Recommends Web site and got the chance to write a few news/entertainment articles.
  
  I also helped produce the Seattle P-I's main site on a daily basis, learned audio/video recording and editing and assisted reporters with a variety of other tasks, from online research to man-on-the-street video interviews.

• Intern

  ASNE Reporter

  (Graphic Design industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Chris Durr’s Education

• Seattle Pacific University

  B.A., Journalism, Sociology, 2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Chris Durr’s Websites:

• A Byte of MySpace
• The sPI

Chris Durr’s Interests:

New media, guerilla marketing, street art

Chris Durr’s Contact Settings

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