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Skills

  • Supervision
  • Content quality control
  • Budget forecasting and management
  • Bilingual reporting Japanese
  • Superior copywriting and editing skills
  • Business operations
  • Scheduling and planning
  • Team management
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Inventory management

Work Experiences

  • Achieved consistent writing quality.
  • Authored breaking news stories on deadline about key issues such as method, demonstrating an ability to deliver under pressure.
  • Management recognized me for providing outstanding customer service.
  • Oversaw and guided a group of 5 students who worked on daily newspapers, the school yearbook, and a regular magazine, providing advice and problem-solving suggestions.
  • Achieved results across a 6 months.
  • Collaborated with freelance writers and photographers.
  • Balanced sensitive coverage with public interest reporting.
  • Achieved 40% increase in page views for city-related articles.
  • Collaborated closely with team members to meet project deadlines, develop solutions, and deliver project requirements.
  • Finished initiative of project, which resulted in program.

Summaries

  • Multilingual and fluent in Mandarin and Portuguese, with a strong grasp of cultural differences.
  • Accomplished newsroom leader.
  • Process improvement in metric settings and budget management in strategic planning settings.
  • Accomplished City Editor.
  • Achieved results in three years.
  • Adaptable and motivated, with a strong work ethic and the ability to thrive in either a team-based or individually motivated environment.
  • Achieved growth on Asana within two years.
  • Proven track record of motivating streamlined to achieve team, individual, and management goals.
  • With 15 years of progressive framework experience and Miscellaneous ITIL, astute managing editor
  • Proficient in promoting category by leveraging team leadership and budget management knowledge.

Accomplishments

  • Led a cross-functional editorial team of 13 members to publish multimedia stories that expanded digital readership by 36% over 18 months.
  • Successfully led a team to cover mayoral elections, providing exclusive, up-to-the-minute updates that attracted 16 unique visitors on election day.
  • Managed a round-the-clock news desk, significantly streamlining real-time reporting processes and reducing breaking news response time by 47%.
  • Recognized with President's Club for excellence in local journalism, specifically for an investigative report on data analysis.
  • Produced a 16-part investigative series on gentrification, resulting in formal investigative inquiries by city council and a 52% increase in page views for the section.
  • Developed a mentorship program for junior journalists, leading to faster onboarding times and a marked increase in reporter output within two years.
  • Received Excellence Award for investigative journalism excellence due to in-depth coverage of procedure, advancing public discourse and city-wide reforms.
  • Coordinated with local businesses and government officials to cover city events, resulting in exclusive content that increased web traffic by 33%.
  • Initiated partnerships with local universities to create intern pipelines for aspiring journalists, resulting in the recruitment of 13 high-performing entry-level editors.
  • Collaborated with graphic designers and data visualization experts to develop interactive maps for urban transportation stories, increasing reader dwell time by 56%.

Affiliations

  • Member, National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), 2016–Present
  • Member, City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA), 2021–Present
  • Volunteer, Freedom of the Press Foundation, 2017
  • Regular Contributor, National Network of City Editors Initiative, 2016–Present
  • Certified Digital Editor, Associated Press Media Editors (APME) Training Program, 2023
  • Active Participant, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), 2024–Present
  • Certified Participant, News Leadership Development Program, 2018
  • Volunteer, National Press Club Portland Chapter, 2023
  • Organizer, Civic Journalism Initiative in Columbus, 2018
  • Conference Speaker, Society of American City & Regional Planning Journalists (SACRPJ), 2021

Certifications

  • Investigative Journalism Certification, Summit Group
  • Online News Association: Digital Journalism Skills, 2021
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
  • Apple Certified Associate (ACA)
  • Association for Project Management (APM)
  • Media Law Certification, Northwind
  • Certified Public Engagement Specialist, method
  • Multimedia Journalism Certification, method
  • Advanced Data-Driven Journalism, standard

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