Resume

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Related Experience
Oct ’08—Present
Usmagazine.com, New York City, NY
The online site for Us Weekly.
Online/production intern - Updates content, moderates user comments, and writes small blurbs for the Style, Entertainment, and Celebrity channels.

June ’08 – Sept ‘08   
AMBERmag.com, Telecommute
A start-up web site geared toward black and Hispanic women.
Editorial intern – Wrote and pitched articles for the entertainment section, conducted interviews, contributed to blog posts and posted content to web through Joomla! CMS.

Jan ‘08 – May ‘08   
Oklahoma Today, Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma’s official state magazine and voted best magazine by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2008.
Editorial intern – Fact checked, researched, wrote front-of-the-book articles and other tasks as assigned by the editors.

Jan ‘07 – May ‘07   
New Plains Review, Edmond, OK
University of Central Oklahoma’s literary journal.
Fiction co-editor – Copy edited, judged selections and pitched potential topics.

May ’06 – Aug ’06   
Collegerecruiter.com, Telecommute
A web site geared toward college students, job seekers and recent graduates.
Internship blogger – Contributed posts to the “Insights by Candidates Blog” about my experience as an editorial intern and about the business in general.

May ‘06 – Aug ‘06   
Preview Magazine, Oklahoma City, OK
A free events guide geared toward tourists; more than 20,000 copies are distributed across the metro area.
Editorial intern – Updated the calendar, wrote stories and lightly copy edited.

Jan ‘04 – Dec ‘06   
The Daily O’Collegian, Stillwater, OK
Oklahoma State University’s award winning campus newspaper.
Feature/entertainment writer – Copy edited articles and occasionally contributed feature stories and beat stories.

Education
Jan ’07 – Dec ’07    
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences; major in general journalism, minor in English literature.

Aug ’03 – Dec ’06     
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Worked toward bachelor’s degree in news-editorial journalism.

Special Skills
--Familiar with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Flash.  Also has experience using Macintosh, Linux platforms and has knowledge of (X)HTML and CSS.

Other Activities and Awards
--Writes DVD reviews for PopMatters.com.

--Recipient of the Paul Miller Journalism Scholarship for academic performance, Aug ‘05