Experience

THE FORUM OF FARGO-MOORHEAD  | Fargo, N.D.  | 48,200 daily; 52,300 Sundays
Government and politics reporter  | August 2009 - Present  (Interned May-July 2007)Responsible for covering cities of Fargo and West Fargo, Cass County (N.D.), U.S. District Court cases, North Dakota and Minnesota congressional delegations, and federal politics and government issues.Also responsible for news coverage and weekly analysis involving Fargo-Moorhead leaders’ push for permanent flood protection and rural opposition to a Red River diversion.Write federal politics blog, “Flickertales from The Hill,” with original content and analysis, such as video features.Lead campaign coverage for North Dakota’s U.S. House and Senate races in 2012, as did previously in 2010.Assisted in covering 2010 and 2011 record-level flooding in Fargo-Moorhead.Contributed to WDAY AM-970 news programming, as needed.

THE STATE NEWS  | Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.  | 28,500 daily
Editor in Chief  | January 2009 - May 2009Responsible for discipline, payroll, policy and daily content decisions in a newsroom of 65 students.Directed initiatives to improve multimedia storytelling and online readership, which measurably increased website traffic sustainably above previous terms.Reported monthly to Board of Directors; praised for continuous advancement in online content.
Reporter, copy editor  | August 2008 - December 2008, August 2005 - May 2007Hired as the only incoming freshman (a rarity in annual hiring) in August 2005. Served three semesters as a news reporter and two as a copy editor.Covered top newsroom beats, including MSU academics and East Lansing city government.

THE OKLAHOMAN  | Oklahoma City, Okla.  | 138,500 daily; 202,700 Sundays
City news intern  | May 2008 - July 2008Reported in-depth news-features as Page One multimedia packages with video and blog entries.Covered breaking news and general assignment stories on deadline.Led intern blog among class of 18 interns.

NEWSDAY  | Melville, N.Y.  | 314,800 daily; 375,900 Sundays
News intern, Washington, D.C., bureau  | February 2008 - May 2008Served as Newsday’s only congressional correspondent due to limited staff and responsible for all coverage relating to New York’s two U.S. senators and Long Island’s five U.S. House members.Produced a Page One in-depth report about the effects the WWII-era GI Bill had on New York college students and the congressional effort to modernize the law.[Internship organized through the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism semester program.]

MultimediaSocial mediaBloggingVideo/audio-recording and editingReporting for radio

SoftwareWindows Movie Maker AudacitySoundslidesApple iMovie

ResearchData analysis with MS ExcelComputer-assisted reporting

Society of Professional Journalists, since September 2006.

Michigan State University  | East Lansing, Mich.  | August 2005 - August 2009
Journalism   Bachelor of ArtsWith honors, minor in history
Political science and prelaw  Bachelor of Arts

John Cabot University, semester abroad | Rome, Italy | August 2007 - December 2007Studied political science, law, history and arts and humanities using on-site locations in and around Rome