Journalist resume

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Johanna Greet

56 Hodges Road
Pilberry, NSW 2009 Australia
Mobile: 0903 222 343
Home: 02 9299 0709
Email: jgreet@example.com

Summary

I have over seven years experience writing and editing for online and print media. I have held various editor and associate editor positions in some of Australia's forefront independent media publications. A consistently dependable team player, I thrive in a high-pressure environment, enjoy the challenges of meeting deadlines and managing a team, and am comfortable researching, writing and editing on a wide range of topics.

Education

Employment History

Responsibilities:

• Pitch story ideas to editors
• Research and write stories for submission
• My work has been published in The Courier Pigeon,The Pilberry Morning Herald, The Bi-Monthly, Pen Club, Cleopatra, Sunday Magazine, yourcall.com and others

Responsibilities:

• Commission submissions from contributors
• Prepare written and visual content to daily deadlines
• Manage staffing and budgets
• Write stories and editorials

Achievements:

• Developed and coordinated a political blog which has received submissions from around the world
• Contributed to site redesign and development
• Doubled traffic to site
• Managed a team of 36

Responsibilities:

• Project design
• Identity management
• Staff management
• Quality assurance
• Commission and edit submissions

Achievements:

• Managed an editorial and design staff of nine
• Increased readership by 20 per cent
• Developed an interactive online political portal which received an average of 10,000 hits per day

Responsibilities:

• Commission and edit stories
• Make final decision about feature story selection and layout
• Liaise with managing director
• Staff management

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the editor to commission stories and organise contracts
• Liaise with in-house teams of writers, photographers, printers, designers and production staff
• Organise and research projects to tight deadlines
• Subedit manuscripts
• Obtain rights to use material from other publications
• Write reports and articles

Skills

References

Available upon request.