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JENNIFER L. WHITE
School Address
Permanent Address
2719 Granville Towers South
2119 Eaton Court
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Winterville, NC 28590
(919) 370-4542
(252) 756-4281
   
EDUCATION
 
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
 
B.A. expected January 2003; News-Editorial sequence
   
EXPERIENCE FEATURES WRITER, The Daily Tar Heel (8/99 - 5/00)
  Highlights include:
 
  • a story I wrote about myths and legends surrounding many campus icons
 
  • a story I wrote about sun tanning versus tanning beds, which included interviews with a dermatologist at UNC-Hospitals, a manager of a tannery and several college students
 
  • The newspaper, which reaches 39,000 readers daily, was awarded a national Pacemaker Award (1997-98 school year)
   
  NEWS AND FEATURES WRITER, The Daily Reflector, Greenville, NC (6/98 - 7/00)
 
  • Experience includes news and feature writing, reporting, editing, layout, and design
 
  • Wrote for the Youth page, a section featuring stories of interest to children and teens, such as a story I wrote about dating violence, which included an interview with an actual victim.
 
  • News experience includes coverage of Literacy Week, which included an interview with a 50-something man learning to read.
 
  • Published seven days a week with a circulation of approximately 20,000
 
OTHER EXPERIENCE RESIDENT ASSISTANT, Granville Towers Residence Hall (1/00 - present)
 
  • Responsible for creating a sense of community on the floor, for planning social events and for mediating conflicts, in addition to working weekly desk and on-call shifts
 
  • Out of 26 halls, I had the most returning residents from the 1999/2000 academic year to the 2000/2001 academic year
   
 

CHAMPIONS HEALTH CLUB, Greenville, NC (8/97 - 5/98)

  Nursery Attendant
   
 

PULSE ATHLETIC CLUB, Greenville, NC (1/96 - 8/97)
  Nursery Attendant
   
SKILLS PROFICIENT IN THE FOLLOWING: WordPerfect 5.1; Lotus 1-2-3 2.4; MS Windows 98; MS Word 2000; Excel; Power Point; PageMaker 6.0; PageSpeed 4.2; Quark ; DreamWeaver and Scanner
   
SCHOLARSHIPS PITT COUNTY JUNIOR MISS
  Judged on interview skills, academics, talent, presence and composure and physical fitness
   
  N.C. ASSOCIATION OF RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, INC.
  Judged on academic merit
   

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