career objective

 

proactive, results-driven, and detail-oriented professional desiring a challenging and rewarding reporter / editor / producer role within a dynamic and successfully progressive television, radio, or print organization.

 

profile

 

ø  offer over 15 years of solid combined experience in broadcast and print journalism, marketing / advertising, and mass media instructional roles, including expertise within public- and private-sector organizational support, creative development, and investigative research capacities.

ø  demonstrate solid interviewing skills to create superior television programming, including engaging such high-profile guests as former new jersey governor christine todd whitman and state senators nia gill and loretta weinberg.

ø  adept at collecting and analyzing comprehensive information about newsworthy events for publication or broadcast, as well as proactively receiving and evaluating assignments and adhering to all set operational deadlines.

ø  contribute exceptional information gathering and verification methods regarding various stories through keen observation skills, resourceful interviewing abilities, and high-quality research techniques.

ø  display outstanding materials organization, including aptly determining necessary points-of-emphasis, while effectively authoring scripts according to in-house editorial styles and / or standardized formats.

 

professional synopsis

 

mass media experience

 

ø  successfully host a dynamic university-based television program, including objectively interviewing professors, attorneys, and doctors on various worldwide topics such as affirmative action, hurricane katrina, sex, and stds.

ø  proactively discussed various collegiate and / or regional concerns, such as local elections, university-oriented tenure elimination, student homesickness, and academic and personal support.

 

ø  effectively booked diverse and exciting political science-oriented guests for a morning news show, such as local university professors who objectively discussed media coverage of the war in iraq.

ø  produced complete 30-minute newscasts, as well as succinct yet informative four-minute politically-based segments.

ø  created insightful daytime television segments, along with authoring scripts for morning, afternoon, and evening newscasts, and writing / editing and airing headlines for the local info-bar.

 

ø  accurately authored high-profile speeches and / or press releases for the mayor of irvington, including booking necessary television and newspaper interviews in a prompt and proactive manner.

 

ø  proficiently assisted a new producer with accurate and technically superior script writing, along with effectively rolling the teleprompter as necessary to achieve a seamless operational media presentation.

 

additional editorial / reporting roles held (1993 c 1999)

 

instructional experience

 

ø  maintain instructional responsibility for a total of 10 mass media-based undergraduate courses per year within four university campuses (monmouth u., montclair state u., william paterson u., fairleigh dickinson u.).

ø  perform instruction on such topics as television news , writing for radio and television , and communication in action , as well as proactively introducing a dynamic and well-received women and minorities in the media course at two fairleigh dickinson university campus locations.

 

education

 

master of arts in public communications                                                                           fordham university

bachelor of arts in journalism / mass media                                                                      rutgers university

 

 

 

 

 

 

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dear__________________:

 

i am currently seeking a challenging and rewarding reporter / editor / producer role within a dynamic and successfully progressive television, radio, or print organization, and am submitting my resume for your review.

 

i offer over 15 years of solid combined experience in broadcast and print journalism, marketing / advertising, and mass media instructional roles, including expertise within public- and private-sector organizational support, creative development, and investigative research capacities.

 

during this time, i have demonstrated solid interviewing skills to create superior television programming, including engaging such high-profile guests as former new jersey governor christine todd whitman, as well as contributing exceptional information gathering and verification methods to convey effective stories through keen observation skills, resourceful interviewing abilities, and high-quality research techniques.

 

i have also successfully maintained instructional responsibility for a total of 10 mass media-based undergraduate courses per year within four new jersey-based state university campuses, teaching such relevant courses as television news and writing for radio and television .  i am proud to note that i also proactively introduced a dynamic and well-received women and minorities in the media course at two fairleigh dickinson university campus locations.

 

in all, you will find me to be an enthusiastic, proactive, and detail-oriented professional who is committed to supporting your organization s information and communication objectives, and i am confident that my wide-ranging skills and abilities will prove to be incredible assets to your operational team.

 

i look forward to hearing from you in order to discuss an available opportunity for which i am qualified.  i may be reached as indicated, and thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

 

sincerely,

 

 

 

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