Manager Director

ERIKA NAVARRETE

Last updated: June ****

ERIKA NAVARRETE

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SKILLS

• Computer: Publishing stories/video onto the web. Proficient with Active Content Manager and iNews. Developed own website.

• Languages: Fluent in Spanish, understand the basics of Italian and Portuguese.

• Editing: Digital editing on Avid Xpress Pro and Cool Edit. Tape-to-tape editing on DVC Pro.

• Camera: Shooting video on Sony Digital HD cameras and DVC Pro cameras.

EXPERIENCE

General Assignment Reporter, KOMU TV-8 (NBC), Columbia, MO: May 2008 – May 2009

• Operated at a commercial news station under a strict deadline for our daily live newscasts

• Reported day-turn stories and in-depth stories One-Man-Band style: writing, shooting video/stand ups, and editing in HD format.

• Uploaded, edited and updated stories and videos to the station’s website.

• Performed live shots, on-sets and weather walls.

• Composed scripts in the iNews rundown for stories and anchor intros/tags..

• Anchored the National Report for the five newscast, local morning show cut-ins, the news portion of the morning talk show.

Intern, Associated Press Television News (APTN), Brussels, Belgium: August 2008 – December 2008

• Gained hands-on experience in world news coverage from a news agency perspective in a multicultural newsroom.

• Conducted interviews at the European Union, NATO, protests and conferences with a videographer.

• Covered various stories during the Russian/Georgian crisis and the European financial crisis.

• Obtained sound-bites from EU prime ministers at the arrivals/departures of two EU Council Summits.

• Composed shot description scripts necessary for feeding video to London.

State Capitol Reporter, KMOX News Radio-1120 (CBS), Jefferson City, MO: January 2008 – May 2008

• Developed, wrote, voiced and produced my own stories for the air and uploaded them to the web.

• Reported during the legislative session, covering prominent state issues.

• Interviewed lawmakers and covered hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives.

EDUCATION

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, with emphasis in broadcast.

REFERENCES

Randy Reeves

• Managing Editor, KOMU-TV 8.

• *******@********.***, 573-***-****

Stacey Woelfel

• News Director, KOMU-TV 8.

• ********@********.***, 573-***-****

Phil Brooks

• Director of State Capitol Bureau, KMOX-News Radio 1120.

• ***@***.***, 573-***-****

Sandra Hodzic

• Executive Producer of Brussels Bureau, Associated Press Television News (APTN).

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