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TRACI PATTERSON

**** * ***** ***., *******, IL 60647

*****@**************.*** 303-***-****

EXPERIENCE

CED Magazine, February 2007 - Present, Chicago, IL

Managing Editor

. Edit/manage all editorial content, including CED's monthly

magazine, wallcharts and website

. Responsible for coordinating, creating, editing and deploying

daily e-newsletter

. Write feature and department articles for the magazine

Write for daily e-newsletter

. Spearheading redesign of CED's website Have completed a

redesign of daily e-newsletter

. Writing samples:

o http://www.cedmagazine.com/video-a-portable-feast.aspx

o http://www.cedmagazine.com/Article-Money-VOD-Ads.aspx

Intersect Solutions, June 2010 - Present, Chicago, IL

Freelance Proofreader

. Edit, rewrite and critique whatever copy or content the

consulting firm needs perfected

Reader's Digest-Medill Collaboration, August - December 2006,

Evanston, IL

Web Associate, Market Research Associate, Staff Writer, Staff

Photographer

. Wrote feature and department articles and took digital

photographs for an internationally distributed prototype that

explored Reader's Digest's digital future

. Edited copy, video and photographs for an extensive redesign

of Reader's Digest's website

Freelance Writer, April - August 2006, Chicago, IL

. Medill News Service: covered music, theater and photography

in Chicago

. Hospitality Lighting magazine

Windy City Times, June - December 2005, Chicago, IL

Features Intern

. Wrote a published profile of a well-known furniture designer

for the local magazine

. Writing sample:

o

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICL

E.php?AID=9938

The Satellite, August 2003 - August 2004, Gainesville, FL

Editorial Intern

. Assisted editor with editing magazine copy each month

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EDUCATION

Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, 2006, Evanston,

IL

Master's in Magazine Publishing

. Concentration: Magazine Writing and Editing

University of Florida, 2005, Gainesville, FL

Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Communications

. Concentration: Magazine Journalism Minors: English,

sociology

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SKILLS & INTERESTS

Computer

. Content management systems (CMSs) Social networking

Microsoft Office Photoshop Lightroom InDesign

Illustrator Dreamweaver Fireworks Flash QuarkXPress

RSS iMovie Adobe Acrobat Basic HTML

Photography

. Have had several years of training and continue to study

digital photography at Richard Stromberg's Chicago

Photography Classes

. Received a year of training in black & white photography at

the Chicago Photography Center

. Participated in a 2006 WITHiNSIGHT photography show at the

Chicago Photography Center

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