Resume
Experience
Managing Editor | The Montana Standard & Independent Record | May 2022–Present
Butte & Helena, MT
• Lead editorial direction and manage the personnel of two newsrooms.
• Listen to and approve/critique story pitches from reporters, and community members who wish to contribute local content.
• Make day-to-day decisions that can range from naming – or not naming – people in crime stories to approving opinion content.
• Provide guidance for in-depth features or enterprise pieces written by local reporters, and pitch longform stories to the PSJ team.
• Mobilize reporters and photojournalists when news breaks.
• Recruit and onboard new employees to fill open positions.
• Coordinate and schedule content both digitally and in print by collaborating daily with digital editors, three other Montana editors, reporters and page traffickers.
• Ensure revenue-driven special sections are aligned with what the advertising team has promised its clients.
Sports Editor | The Montana Standard | Dec. 2020–May 2022
Butte, MT
• Oversaw the daily production of the sports section, including page trafficking.
• Covered high school, college and community sports across southwest Montana, writing everything from daily game stories to features on local standouts to breaking news.
• Wrote and managed a weekly sports betting column.
• Managed, trained and worked with the sports reporters to generate story ideas.
• Cultivated and maintained relationships with sources in a community that lives and breathes prep sports.
• Developed workflow that allowed our small two-person department to gather as many game results as possible to highlight schools across our vast coverage area.
• Worked closely with marketing and sales to produce seasonal special insert sections.
Sports Reporter/Assistant Editor | The Independent Record | Sept. 2019–Nov. 2020
Helena, MT
• Covered high school and community sports around the greater Helena area.
• Launched a sports betting column for 406mtsports.com following the Montana Lottery’s rollout of Sports Bet Montana (the first and only legal sports book in the state) which I was able to turn into a weekly radio segment on KGEZ.
• Oversaw most of the desk duties for the IR sports section, such as copy editing and page trafficking. Also filled in to traffic the news section once a week.
Copy Editor/Page Designer | The Bulletin | Sept. 2017–Aug. 2019
Bend, OR
• Proofread each article for the sports section for grammatical errors and to ensure adherence to AP style and Bulletin style guide.
• Worked with reporters, photographers, graphic artists, supervisors and others to ensure that all elements worked together properly in every package that accompanied an article.
• Wrote headlines, short article previews and photo captions to provide key information in tight spaces.
• Monitored stories and wrote accurate, engaging and SEO-friendly headlines for bendbulletin.com.
• In addition to copy editing responsibilities, oversaw the design and layout of the sports section in addition to special publications.
Skills
• A thoughtful, people-first manager who prioritizes the needs and desires of the newsroom while also providing clear direction for each employee.
• Excellent command of AP style and BLOX.
• Proficient with Parse.ly analytics, SEO writing and disseminating content through social media platforms to maximize digital traffic.
Education
• Northern Arizona University, 2015-2017
• BS in Journalism and a minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice