Los Angeles, Calif. (Oct. 2009) -- NBCLA.com covers local news, entertainment and lifestyle within Los Angeles.
Key responsibilities include:
- Report on practices, games and anything USC or UCLA football
- Manage NBCLA’s social media to maximize story exposure
- Organize stories on home page and subsequent pages based on newsworthiness
- Edit stories and packages from reporters and write local and breaking news stories
- Build galleries, manage user-generated content and live stream important events
Los Angeles, Calif. (Sept. 2009) -- Trans-Missions.org is a media and religion resource for journalists seeking new approaches for covering politics, science, sex and gender for the 21st century.
Key responsibilities include:
- Monitor news sites to aggregate articles dealing with current religious issues
- Blog regularly about the mainstream media’s coverage of religious hot topics
- Update the website with the latest news while performing general upkeep on the site
Los Angeles, Calif. (2008-2010) The Sports Union was dedicated to the latest in sports commentary written by fans for fans. Responsibilities: Daily posts, weekly polls, podcasts and social media marketing of the site.
Cape Town, South Africa (2009) -- The Cape Community News’ total distribution is nearly 600,000 and covers all of Cape Town and surrounding communities. Responsibilities: Sports reporter and photographer.
Los Angeles, Calif. (2009-2010) -- KXSC, USCTrojans.com and Trojan TV cover everything Trojan sports. Responsibilities: TV football analyst, radio and TV play-by-play and host of a sports radio talk show.
Los Angeles, Calif. (2009) -- Annenberg Digital News is a multimedia newsroom operated, edited and managed by journalism students at USC Annenberg. Responsibilities: Sports writing, editing and posting stories to the site.
Master's Degree in Online Journalism
B.S. Degree in Management and Organizational Leadership with a minor in Biblical Studies
Degree work in Associate Pastoral Program with focus in Counseling and Youth ministries
• Newswriting: Print, Broadcast, Online
• Reporting: Print, Broadcast, Online
• Production: Print, Broadcast, Online
• Media and Society
• Sports Commentary
• Seminar in Mass Communication Law
• Foreign Reporting
• International Internships in the Media
• Sports Public Relations
• International Reporting: South Africa
• Advanced Investigative Reporting
• Advanced Online Publication
• Media History
• Specialized Reporting: Religion, Politics and Gender (Case Study: Israel-Palestine)
• Online Journalism Seminar
• Multimedia and Graphics in Online Publishing
• Dalet, Clickability, Wordpress, Movable Type, Tumblr, HTML and CSS
• Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash
• Search Engine Optimization and social media applications (Twitter and Facebook)
• Final Cut Pro, AVID and various video-editing programs
• Audacity, Garage Band and various audio-editing programs