Jonathan Oosting

Current

• Online news producer at MLive.com

Past

• "Agate Guy" at Lansing State Journal
• New Media Intern at The Truth

Education

• Michigan State University

Recommended

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Connections

27 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

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Jonathan Oosting’s Summary

When I enrolled in the journalism master's program at Michigan State University, I primarily was interested in traditional print journalism, but a digital public affairs reporting class sparked my interest in multimedia storytelling. Further investigation and experience only served to enforce my belief in the medium as a powerful tool for encouraging participatory democracy.

While a student, I helped create and reported for spartysecrets.com, an exercise in participatory journalism. The goal of the site was to actively engage the university's student body in asking, uncovering and communicating questions about campus life. Each week, myself and two other students reported on a student-submitted question, using print, video, photography, slideshows and other media to provide a comprehensive answer to each query.

In the summer of 2007 I interned at The Truth, a smallish daily newspaper serving Elkhart, Ind. I spent the summer primarily as an online-video reporter, filming, editing and writing packages. I also collaborated with tech staff on a google-map based voting guide that pulled data from an xml file to instruct potential voters where to find their precinct polling location.

Currently, I work as a night news and sports producer at MLive.com, the largest news Web site in the state of Michigan. My immediate responsibilities include updating the site's various home pages with headlines, teasers and links. Eventually, I hope to use my flash, google map and database skills to develop web specific product for the sites, which pulls primarily print-based content from eight Michigan dailies.

Jonathan Oosting’s Specialties:

Print journalism, digital journalism, digital photography, flash programming, photo editing, slide shows, video, video editing, multimedia story telling, mobile journalism, database management

Jonathan Oosting’s Experience

• Online news producer

  MLive.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

• "Agate Guy"

  Lansing State Journal

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

  October 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 3 months)

• New Media Intern

  The Truth

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Reporting on local public affairs, gathering information, assisting print journalists

Jonathan Oosting’s Education

• Michigan State University

  2006 — 2008

Additional Information

Jonathan Oosting’s Websites:

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