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Medill at Northwestern University '12
Master of Science in Journalism
Missouri School of Journalism '11
Bachelor of Journalism with minor in SpanishSumma cum laude
• Maine Press Association 2023 Better Newspaper Contest
1st place, news headline, daily/weekend
• American Copy Editors Society 2022 National Headline Contest
3rd place, regional/local news organization
• MPA 2021 Better Newspaper Contest
1st place, front page design, daily/weekend
• American Copy Editors Society Headline Writer of the Year, student division, 2012
• Dow Jones News Fund copy editing intern
• Portland Press Herald: Portland, Maine
Copy editor, page designer, web editor. October 2016 — present
• Design A1, and local/state and business sections, for 36,000-circ daily; frequently design A1 for 48,000-circ Sunday edition, called Maine Sunday Telegram
• Build graphic elements highlighting data or key ideas, and create conceptual designs when art is lacking
• Copy edit news and features for daily editions and advance pages, and write headlines and cutlines, with a goal of clear, accurate, engaging stories
• Publish breaking news and prepare enterprise for web
• On occasion serve as night copy desk chief
• Omaha World-Herald: Omaha, Nebraska
Copy editor, page designer, web editor. July 2012 — October 2016
• Design section front and inside news pages on deadline, including A1 and sports covers, for 100,000-circ daily
• Copy edit local and wire stories for daily edition
• Work with city editors to create daily budgets; map out six- to eight-page local news sections
• Select and build nation/world packages as wire editor
• Publish stories to Omaha.com; use web tools such as Storify to gather readers’ tweets; embed video and Google spreadsheet data; send breaking news alerts
• Medill News Service: Chicago
Health and science reporter, web producer. August — December 2011
• Naples Daily News: Naples, Florida
Copy editor, designer. June — August 2011
• Adobe InDesign, Photoshop
• Content-management systems such as Saxotech, WordPress, TownNews, django
• Knowledgeable in HTML, CSS, WordPress self-hosting