Resume

Skills

Professional Experience

• Daily scheduling, coordination, and monetization of social media posts, including online articles and videos across multiple platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Track social media analytics and provide weekly, quarterly, and annual reports and analysis of social media strategy and content optimization
• Creation of daily Instagram Stories
• Creation of Instagram photo and video posts
• Communicate video requests to video editors.
• Work with local and national colleagues to create engaging, informing video content
• Respond to customer inquiries, pitches, and comments through social media accounts
• Moderate comments across all Global BC and Okanagan social media platforms
• Coordinate with marketing departments as necessary to promote brand on social media
• Develop and curate content to increase community engagement online

• Developed and implemented a social media strategy for engaging, informing, and growing our audience
• Created custom imaging and graphics to reflect CityNews 1130 brand across a variety of social media platforms
• Generated a 400 per cent increase in social media following on Instagram within one year, including markable increase in user engagement 
• Create daily, custom video and photo content for several social media platforms using Adobe Suite
• Work with local and national colleagues to create engaging, informing video content
• Monitor real-time performance to optimize performance and growth
• Edit colleagues’ stories for publication online
• Moderate comments
• Producing original content for on air and online

• Pitch, record, produce, and write unique story content for on-air and online
• Live broadcast breaking news both in studio and on scene
• Edit colleagues’ stories for publication
• Maintaining and checking calendar of regular news beats
• Photography for stories, create web galleries, and update stock photography

• Live anchor evening news casts including six minute casts at top of the hour and 90 second casts every half hour in addition to recording overnight casts.
• Simultaneously produce on-air scripts for hourly broadcast deadlines and complete web stories, produce stories for both broadcast and online mediums as well as live hits from the scene.
• Take photographs for stories, create web galleries and update stock photography.
• Produce video for online content.
• Edit colleagues’ stories for publication.
• Use Drupal software to publish stories to the company website.
• Develop and maintain relationships with numerous organizations and individuals both inside and outside Saskatoon and Saskatchewan.

• Pitch, research, and write stories for a national audience both in print and online on a daily basis in addition to creating longer feature pieces.
• Report to multiple editors daily.
• Photography for articles. 
• Work with other reporters to co-produce stories.
• Coordinate with editors on freelance pieces.

• Assign multiple photography requests from multiple section editors.
• Edit photos with the use of Photoshop and Aperture.
• Work with editor in chief to produce weekly cover photos and illustrations.
• Communicate and collaborate with section editors and volunteers.
• Write editorials.
• Remain accessible to volunteers and fellow editors by maintaining office hours outside classes.

Volunteer Experience

Education

Bachelor of Journalism – High Honours, – Political Science Minor – Carleton University – 2012

Awards