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Skills

  • Regulatory compliance
  • Supervision
  • Standard equipment
  • Digital content strategy
  • Audience Engagement Optimization
  • Relationship development
  • Understanding of human resources
  • Organization
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Data visualization in storytelling

Work Experiences

  • Organized and supervised staff meetings to discuss new ideas and provide updates on program details and milestones to participants.
  • Created targeted newsletters.
  • Curated coverage exposing corruption in procedure.
  • Collaborated with Legal Counsel.
  • Curated coverage that exposed corruption in method, leading to system.
  • Contributed to community engagement and influence.
  • Championed diversity in newsroom reporting.
  • Met and collaborated with Director of Journalisms to identify issues, find appropriate solutions, and provide guidance in vendor management and strategic planning.
  • All project-related documents were maintained and updated by me.
  • Conducted in-depth newsroom analysis and facilitated the adoption of cloud-based collaboration tools, reducing project completion time by 21%.

Summaries

  • Within Miscellaneous, senior Director of Journalism and outstanding performer in quality assurance and process improvement.
  • Collaborative newsroom leader with a hands-on approach to managing content teams. Successfully led multimedia projects that increased site traffic and user interactions by 60% over one year.
  • Award-winning journalism leader.
  • Accomplished journalism leader known for launching groundbreaking multimedia projects. Increased user engagement by 33% with a unique focus on process investigation.
  • Recognized on a regular basis for outstanding performance and contributions to the Miscellaneous industry's success.
  • On a daily basis, this versatile leader is capable of handling a variety of functions.
  • Offering 16 years of project management and improvement experience.
  • Adept at leading cross-functional teams.
  • Award-winning journalism leader with a passion for investigative reporting, managing a cross-functional team to produce stories that resulted in key public policy shifts in 2022.
  • Director of Journalism is a multi-talented Director of Journalism who is consistently rewarded for planning and operational improvements.

Accomplishments

  • Created an audience-focused content strategy that boosted traffic from mobile devices by 16% over the 6 months.
  • Analyzed and optimized readership data that increased user engagement by 48% across digital platforms.
  • Developed partnerships with tech platforms to enhance multimedia distribution, leading to a 25% increase in viewership.
  • Redesigned newsroom’s scheduling and resource allocation system, reducing content production time by 13 days.
  • Negotiated partnerships with Vantage, leading to a 52% increase in long-form investigative stories.
  • Led editorial team in developing and executing a content strategy that increased audience engagement by 53% within 10 months.
  • Engineered a content performance audit that pinpointed low-performing articles and improved overall content quality by 28%.
  • Established a mobile audience-friendly content approach, increasing mobile readership by 55% within 18 months.
  • Led the integration of video journalism into traditional reporting efforts, increasing site traffic by 29% in 18 months.
  • Developed content traffic analysis reports and implemented strategies that increased unique visits by 74% in several months.

Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute
  • Freemason
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • Associated Press Media Editors (APME)
  • National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)
  • Lions Club
  • Society of Human Resource Management
  • National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
  • International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)
  • Online News Association (ONA)

Certifications

  • Data Journalism Certificate - Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
  • Investigative Reporter and Editor (IRE) Certification
  • First Aid/CPR Certified
  • CompTIA A+ Technician
  • Certificate in Mobile and Web Analytics – Digital Journalism Institute
  • SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
  • Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) for Newsrooms
  • CompTIA Network+
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Social Media and Content Strategy Certification - Hootsuite Academy

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