| Work
Experience: |
Dow
Jones Newswires, Global Desk
March 2005 - present
Jersey City, N.J.
Reporting Assistant
• Edited general,
resources, equities, money and commodities news for a global
readership in the fastest-pace environmen
• Searched and discovered overlooked
news items from other media and crafted "pick-up" articles
• Took dication, edited copy and wrote
headlines for stories from reporters around the world, as
well as from The Associated Press
babytalk
Feb - March 2005
New York, N.Y.
Editorial Assistant
• Copy edited articles
for an ASME-award winning Time Inc. magazine with 2,150,000
circulation
Time
Out New York
Fall 2004 - Feb 2005
New York, N.Y.
Editorial Intern, Freelance Copy Editor
• Wrote movie reviews,
extended photo captions and articles for the front-of-the-book
section, "Out There," in weekly culture and event-listings
magazine
• Copy edited all sections of the
magazine, from the table of contents to front-page features,
in a 132,000-circulation magazine
• Fact-checked and researched features
and event listings
NC State
Summer 2004
Raleigh, N.C.
Editorial Intern
• Wrote briefs for
"State of Things" section of NC State University's
alumni magazine
• Researched in University archives
for photography and historial information for fall issue,
delivered to every reachable alumnus of NC State University
-- more than 126,000 readers
• Copy-edited and fact-checked features
and short articles
The
Herald-Sun
Spring 2004
Durham, N.C.
Copy Editing Intern
• Copy-edited wire
and in-house copy for Durham, N.C., newspaper with a circulation
of more than 50,000 in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area
of North Carolina
• Wrote headlines, decks, cutlines
and overlines for the A section, the Durham section and the
Chapel Hill Herald section
Dialogue Magazine
Summer
2001
Columbus, Ohio
Editorial Intern
• Wrote news section
of local and national art events
• Copy-edited features, articles and
editorials
• Compiled a comprehensive directory
of art businesses across the Midwest
Columbus Medical
Association
Summer
2001
Columbus, Ohio
Communications Intern
• Wrote articles for
4-page section in local weekly business newspaper
• Analyzed Association’s exposure
in local media
• Designed ceremony programs, informational
brochures, and conference displays
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| Skills: |
• Adobe InDesign, InCopy
• AP style
• Dow Jones style
• LexisNexis, InfoTrac, internet research
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access)
• QuarkXPress, QuarkCopyDesk
• Proficient in Latin
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| Activities:
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Blue & White - Editor,
C-TOPS issue; Special Sections Editor
• Orchestrated as
editor-in-chief the production of the 32-page annual summer
issue distributed to the incoming freshman class
• Supervised up to 11 writers, photographers
and designers as the special sections editor while writing
feature stories on deadline in student magazine with a circulation
of 4,000
• Awarded "Most
Thorough Copy Editor" by the Editorial Board
Carolina
Communicator - contributing writer
• Composed articles
for quarterly alumni magazine
The Learning Center
- Free peer tutor in Latin 1-4
• Volunteered for
tutor Latin students weekly
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| References: |
• Dorene Lomanto-Kulp
Deputy Editor
Global Desk,
Dow Jones Newswires
Email:
dorene.lomanto
@dowjones.com
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•Tom Galatola
Assistant News Editor
Global Desk,
Dow Jones Newswires
Email:
tom.galatola
@dowjones.com
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•Anne Johnston
Professor, thesis advisor
School of Journalism and
Mass Communication,
UNC-Chapel Hill
Email:
amjohnst@email.unc.edu
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