Resume

Education
Utah State University 2005–2009
Journalism and communication major, print emphasis
English minor, technical writing emphasis
Political science minor
3.51 GPA

Experience
The Herald Journal features writer, 2009-present
Responsibilities include: generating story ideas, conducting interviews, writing articles, editing and designing features pages

Media General’s 2008 D. Tennant Bryan journalism contest judge, February 2009
Responsibilities include: judging editorials and columns in the community and metro categories of the company’s ninth
annual newspaper contest

The Utah Statesman editor in chief, 2008–2009
Responsibilities include: overseeing the editing and publication of the newspaper, hiring editors and writers, leading a 50-
member staff, designing and laying out the opinion section, conducting interviews and writing articles

Wasatch Property Management, Inc. intern, summer 2008
Responsibilities include: conducting interviews and writing press releases for out-of-state publications

The Utah Statesman news editor, 2007–2008
Responsibilities include: leading a staff of about 20 writers,
finding story ideas, assigning articles and beats, conducting weekly meetings, designing and laying out the news section, conducting interviews and writing articles

Cache Valley Radio Group, 610 AM KVNU news department intern, summer 2007
Responsibilities include: generating story ideas, conducting interviews, writing articles, and producing stories to broadcast on the air by recording and editing pieces

The Utah Statesman assistant news editor, 2006–2007
Responsibilities include: conducting interviews, writing articles, designing and laying out the news section once a week

The Utah Statesman staff writer, 2005–2006
Responsibilities include: accepting assignments from the editor, conducting interviews, and writing news articles

The Grizzly editor in chief, 2004–2005
Responsibilities include: overseeing entire newspaper staff, exporting the newspaper to the printing press, designing the opinion section, conducting interviews, writing news, features, and opinion articles

The Grizzly staff writer, 2003–2004
Responsibilities include: conducting interviews, writing news, feature, sports, and opinion pieces

Awards
The Deseret News Scholarship, 2008-2009
The Salt Lake Tribune Scholarship, 2007–2008
The Utah Statesman Most Professional Staffer, 2006–2007
Jay W. Glassman Family Scholarship, 2006–2007
The Utah Statesman Clean as a Whistle Award, 2005–2006
The Utah Statesman Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, 2005–2006