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GROUP TRAVEL, SPORTS PLANNING GUIDE Premier Travel Media – Willowbrook, Illinois April 2017 – present • Write and edit stories, manage staff and produce bimonthly Leisure Group Travel magazine. Create annual publications including the Illinois Group Tour Planner, Switzerland Tour Guide, Destination Reunions and the Chicago Holiday Party Planning Guide • Write and edit stories, manage staff and produce annual 400-page Sports Planning Guide, the most widely used tournament planning reference source in the country • Write marketing, travel, sports and news stories for various websites under the Premier Travel Media umbrella • Update multiple websites with SEO-friendly headlines and summaries and promote breaking news and stories through social media EDITOR FOR ONLINE AND PRINT EDITIONS, DIGITAL EDITOR, BLOGGER The Times of Northwest Indiana – Munster, Indiana October 2012 – April 2017 • Managed news and sports copy desks alongside a team of reporters and designers • Edited stories, headlines and captions for editorial sections of the daily newspaper • Updated website with SEO-friendly headlines and summaries and promoted late-breaking news through social media • Wrote sports blog posts and slideshows for nwitimes.com REPORTER, COLUMNIST, EDITOR, DESIGNER FOR ONLINE AND PRINT EDITIONS Sun-Times Media – Joliet, Illinois August 2002 – October 2012 • Designed award-winning news, features and sports sections for four newspapers: Herald-News, Daily Southtown, The Star and Post-Tribune • Edited stories, headlines and captions for the newspapers’ editorial sections • Wrote SEO-friendly headlines and summaries through the website’s content management system and promoted publication through social media STAFF WRITER, EDITOR, COLUMNIST, DESIGNER Merced Sun-Star – Merced, California December 2000 – August 2002 • Covered professional and major college athletics including the Oakland A’s, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco Giants, Sacramento Kings and Fresno State University • Worked under tight deadlines to write daily features and columns • Edited and designed news, features and sports pages STAFF WRITER, EDITOR, COLUMNIST, DESIGNER Daily Southtown, The Star – Tinley Park, Illinois January 1997 – December 2000 • Wrote sports, entertainment and travel pieces for Daily Southtown and The Star newspapers • Edited and designed pages for The Star newspaper • Developed daily story and page budgets • Designed Project Insider, a newsletter distributed to Chicago high schools EDUCATION BACHELOR OF ARTS, MASS COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM Illinois State University – Normal, Illinois Graduated December 1997 • Assistant sports editor, staff writer for the Daily Vidette, Illinois State University’s daily newspaper TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY InCopy, InDesign, QuarkXPress, PowerPoint, WordPress, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, content management systems, content development, digital advertising, mobile marketing, social media, SEO |