TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Instructor, Point Park University School of Communication Pittsburgh, Pa.

Fall 2011 - "Writing for Multimedia and the Web."

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
Freelance Multimedia Reporter Pittsburgh, Pa.
Regularly report for Patch.com (since January 2011), The Allegheny Front radio show (since April 2011) and The Jewish Chronicle (since August 2011).

• Produced a weekly Marcellus Shale update for the Allegheny Front.
• Produced a feature about a music program at a special needs school for Patch.com.

Production Assistant, WYEP-FM Pittsburgh, Pa.
Intern for the public radio station, January - August, 2011.

• Produced the feature "An Interview with the Decemberists" hosted by Brian Siewiorek.
• Helped produce and write scripts for the March 2011 Women's History Month special.

Multimedia Reporter, Maryland Newsline and Capital News Service College Park, Md.
Produced multimedia projects for the website and wire service and served as content manager, August – December 2010.

• Covered the immigration beat including a naturalization ceremony, an immigration sanctuary law and a computer-assisted multimedia piece about refugees.
• Helped cover the FBI corruption probe in Prince George's county including the arrest of the county executive.
• Designed the section front for the immigration special report with two other reporters.

Reporter, The Washington Jewish Week Rockville, Md.
Freelance reporter for the weekly newspaper, September 2009 – April 2010.

• Wrote a feature about women veterans for Veteran's Day, 2009.
• Produced a video feature of a rally for Israel outside the White House.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Proficient in audio production (Audacity, Adobe Audition), video production (FinalCut, iMovie), slide show production (Adobe Photoshop, SoundSlides), website production (CSS, Dreamweaver, Drupal, HTML), social networking (Blogging, Facebook, Twitter), Flash, computer-assisted reporting (Access and Excel) and search engine optimization. Familiar with filing Freedom of Information Act requests and jQuery.

AWARDS
Second Place, 2010 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards Region 2 for Online In-Depth Reporting - "Making It In America" by the Maryland Newsline Staff
Third Place, 2010 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards Region 2 for Best Affiliated Web Site - "Maryland Newsline"

AFFILIATIONS
Society of Professional Journalists
Online News Association
Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society)

EDUCATION
University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, College Park, Md. Master's degree in online journalism, December 2010.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Bachelor's degree in English with minors in photography, math and technical theater, May 2009.