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201 Jefferson Park Road
Jamestown, N.C. 27282

* Courses taken *
News writing, Sports writing, Media Law, Graphic Design,
News Editing

* Activities *
Student Stores cashier August 2002 to present

UNC Visit Coordinator January 2003 to present

UNC Tour Guide
May 2002-Dec. 2002

Carolina Skydiving Club
Dec. 8, 2001

Habitat For Humanity
Fall 1999 to present

Resident Hall Association
dorm president
August 2001 to May 2002

Student Television
acting & script writing November 1999 to May 2000

Wilson Library
desk clerk
Fall 2001

Experience
The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C.; online at www.dailytarheel.com.
2001 National Pacemaker Award Winner
Assistant Sports Editor - August 2002 to present
- Lead beat writer for the North Carolina women’s soccer and basketball teams
- Worked on a daily deadline editing and writing stories, understand page layout, how to do pagework
Sports Editor - May 2002 to August 2002
City Editor - May 2001 to May 2002
- Spearheaded most successful coverage of local mayoral elections
Assistant City Editor - March 2000 to May 2001
Staff Writer - February 2000 to March 2000

Carolina Blue, Greensboro, N.C.; online at www.carolinablue.com
- Published twice for freelance writing - October 19, 2002 to present

The News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. online at www.news-record.com.
Features intern, unpaid May 2001 to August 2001
- Wrote features for the Life section; also did general assignment reporting.

Carrboro Police Department, Carrboro, N.C. May 2002 to present
- Unpaid internship, worked in public relations writing press releases

Awards
As City Editor, I wrote an in-depth feature profiling the life and mental illness of Wendell Williamson. That article won the following awards:
- First place for feature writing in the Society of Professional Journalist Awards (2003)
- Second place for in-depth writing in the national Hearst journalism awards (2003)
- Third place in profile writing for the North Carolina Press Association Awards (2003)

Selected for the Ameel J. Fisher scholarship (2002)

Skills
QuarkCopyDesk, QuarkXpress, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Internet Search Engines, PageMaker, Coyote, Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator, Comparaprint

Other Experience
- Conducted a crime reporting workshop for staffers Sept. 23, 2002
- UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication trip to Washington D.C.
March 9-12, 2002