Experience

The Manhattan Mercury

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Social Media Coordinator

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  • Analyze audience engagement and post content for peak interactions;• Maintain communication with newsroom and sports desk for breaking news;• Edit articles, post-deadline;• Engage with audience questions and concerns, monitor comments and relay story ideas to editors or appropriate reporting staff.

• Education Reporter

  • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Pitched ideas, researched and wrote articles for the newspaper and quarterly magazine, 313;• Interviewed for feature profiles, breaking news, and event coverage in tri-county area;• Designed pages for daily paper;• Took photographs of events and people.• Served as guest editor of 313 in Spring 2019.

• Crime Reporter

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Pitched ideas, researched and wrote articles for the newspaper and quarterly magazine, 313;• Interviewed for feature profiles, breaking news, and event coverage in tri-county area;• Designed pages for daily paper;• Took photographs of events and people.

• Intern

  • May 2017 - Jul 2017

  For a second summer, I worked as an intern creating the K-State Edition, an annual publication sent to incoming students of Kansas State University to help acclimate them to the area before school begins each year.



Collegian Media Group

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• News Reporter

  • Aug 2016 - May 2017

  Covered events, wrote news stories and interviewed students to get their perspective on situations impacting them and their education at a school of 24,000. Worked part-time as a copy editor for the same publication. Covered events, wrote news stories and interviewed students to get their perspective on situations impacting them and their education at a school of 24,000. Worked part-time as a copy editor for the same publication.

• Intern

  • May 2016 - Aug 2016

  Pitched, researched and wrote articles for the K-State Edition, a special paper sent out to incoming students in August. Pitched, researched and wrote articles for the K-State Edition, a special paper sent out to incoming students in August.



The Cowley Courier Traveler

• News Intern

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2014

  I worked my senior year of high school and university breaks at the Winfield Daily Courier, where I wrote general news stories, copy edited, took photographs, and laid out pages of a daily newspaper. I worked my senior year of high school and university breaks at the Winfield Daily Courier, where I wrote general news stories, copy edited, took photographs, and laid out pages of a daily newspaper.