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JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

Business Reporting Intern, St. Petersburg Times (Summer 2009)

  • Covered business in the Tampa Bay area including consumer stories about personal bankruptcy and car buying and breaking news about security breach and federal raid

Managing Editor for Online; Online Editor; Reporter, Daily Tar Heel (Fall 2005 – Spring 2009)

  • Coordinated the 20,000-circulation paper’s print and online publishing; worked as editor responsible for Web design, maintenance, online moderation; covered campus news

City Reporting Intern, Philadelphia Daily News (Summer 2008)

  • Interned as a general assignment reporter covering city stories relating to high gasoline prices, crimes, court hearings and other events at paper with circulation of about 114,000

Winner, Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition (Summer 2008)

  • Awarded a 13-day journalism study trip to Japan and South Korea to visit media outlets

Editorial Intern, Black Enterprise Magazine (Summer 2007)

  • Contributed to articles by reporting and conducting research for national publication along with assisting on the set of television taping and assisting magazine editors

Guest Blogger, Portfolio.com (Summer 2007 – Fall 2007)

  • Frequently blogged for technology blog on business magazine’s Web site

Intern, Impulse Magazine (Summer 2006)

  • Freelanced, assisted in maintenance of Web site and MySpace and performed office duties

Internship Coordinator; Member, Carolina Association of Black Journalists (Spring 2006 – Present)

  • Assisted members in applying and obtaining internships

SERVICE EXPERIENCE

Argonaut, Order of the Golden Fleece (Spring 2008 – Present)

  • Member of the order of the university’s oldest and highest honorary society in which inductees must have made a significant, lasting contribution to the school

Program Director; Mentor Coordinator, Movement of Youth (Summer 2007 – Spring 2009)

  • Planned sessions and manages participants of Durham high school mentoring program

Founder and President, Suits for Success (Spring 2006 – Spring 2007)

  • Started a student service group that provides local high school students with business attire

HONORS AND AWARDS

Journalism-Related

  • Robert Pittman Scholarship/Internship
  • Business Reporting Certificate Program
  • First place in regional Society of Professional Journalists competition for Feature Writing and Online In-Depth Reporting
  • Robin Clark Experience
  • Placed in Feature Writing competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program
  • National Association of Black Journalists Scholarship
  • Quincy Sharpe Mills Scholarship
  • Knight Ridder Scholarship (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  • Garden State Association of Black Journalists Scholarship

Service-related

  • Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award
  • Social Entrepreneur Fellow
  • BSM Umoja Award

SKILLS

InDesign, InCopy, Soundslides, Photoshop, Audacity, College Publisher, some HTML, some Flash

ASSOCIATIONS

National Association of Black Journalists, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Society of Professional Journalists