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Relevant Work Experience

Evening Weekend Anchor / Lead Nightside Reporter, NBC Waco (KCEN TV) 5/2018 - Current                                             

  • Anchor and produce 6 and 10pm evening newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays.

  • Shoots and edits vo sots or pkgs for the weekend newscasts

  • Reviews reporter scripts and assigns stories

  • Monitors scanners and social media for breaking news

  • Turns exclusive/investigative pieces during reporting shift

  • Covers breaking news and handles cut ins from the field if necessary

Lead Reporter/ Fill-In Anchor, NBC Waco (KCEN TV)  5/2016 – 5/2018   

                                                

  • Spent two weeks in Beaumont covering Hurricane Harvey. Fed content for Tegna stations.  

  • Report, edit and shoot stories I pitch for 5, 6 and 10 pm newscasts.

  • Tease stories on social media platforms daily with pictures or Videolicious videos

  • Post web stories/videos on station website daily  

  • Conducts live reports in studio or from the field daily as well as breaking news reports.

  • Fill in anchor morning show from 4:30-7am, Weekend evening shows at 6pm and 10pm and Weekday shows at 5 and 6pm.

Broadcast News Intern, NBC Houston (KPRC) 5/2015 - 8/2015               

                              

  • Pitched creative story ideas in daily morning meeting

  • Assisted reporters and photographers in the field daily and used Aurora Edit to edit together one or two packages per shift

  • Used iNews to write anchor scripts and chose SOTS for newscasts, wrote web articles and stations social media posts

  • Anchored 3 solo intern newscasts and completed a demo reel

Broadcast News Intern, ABC San Antonio (KSAT) 5/2014-8/2014         

                                                      

  • Used communication skills and go-getter attitude to conduct on the spot interviews in the field with photographers.

  • Assisted Producer, Web, Social Media and Assignment desks as needed. Used Final Cut Pro to edit packages.

  • Responsible for writing and editing my own intern packages, produced and anchored intern newscast, completed demo reel.

Lead Reporter/ Main Anchor, NAZ Today Channel 4 8/2012-5/2015                                                                                                

  • Completed live reports and two packages per shift, turned packages on a variety of local and national topics

  • Roles included MMJ, Lead Reporter, Main Anchor, Producer and News Director

  • Used Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, P2 cameras Sony, Panasonic and DSLR cameras to shoot video and edit packages

  • Anchored and Produced nightly 30-minute student run newscast 

Broadcast News Intern, Inside NAU                                                                                                                                   1/2014 & 8/2015

  • Received voice coaching, on camera presence tips, creative script writing techniques and camera and lighting tutorials.

  • Completed packages for the Vice President of Marketing at NAU.

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