alicetruong email abpn5i@r.postjobfree.com

website alicetruong.com

twitter @alicetruong

a writer in a programmer s town

EXPERIENCE EDUCATION

northwestern university

FreelanCe san francisco Medill School of Journalism

(accelerated master s program)

+ uSa toDay oct. 2011-present: Pen column on tech products

+ M.S. in journalism

and produce corresponding Web show; articles regularly

- business reporting

printed in USA Today and syndicated across Gannett

- interactive storytelling

properties and partner sites, including aBC news

+ B.S. in journalism

- print/online journalism

+ DISCoVery Channel june 2011-present: Lead tech writer

- political science double major

for gadgets vertical with contributions to adventure/travel;

editor/researcher for Discovery International s documentary

SKILLS

series How We Invented the World (airing fall 2012)

+ ForBeS jan. 2012-present: Gadget reviews and features + web

CSS/HTML, Django

+ SyFy Channel/DVICe feb. 2012-present: Gadget reviews + video

and features Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro

+ graphics

+ yahoo! neWS may 2012-present: Profiles of tech innovators InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects

+ computer-assisted reporting

+ etC. may 2011-present: Business and tech reporting for SQL, Excel, Access

Facebook Stories, Investor s Business Daily, Silicon Valley/ + content-management system

San Jose Business Journal, gooD, WSJ, among others WordPress, Drupal, Movable Type,

Methode

+ language

English, Cantonese, Fujian/Hokkien

Wall Street Journal hong kong, new york, washington d.c.

+ photography+videography

+ reporter sept. 2010 - april 2011: Reported on Hong Kong real estate; Canon 5D Mark II, Canon T1i

portfolio includes front-page story on Asian WSJ, front-page story

HONORS

of AWSJ s business section, leading property story in U.S. paper s

money and investing section

+ freelancer oct. 2009 - june 2010, july 2011: Reported on tech trends

+ Graduated cum laude

and startups for WSJ s tech blog Digits

+ Dean s list (nine quarters)

+ multimedia intern june - sept. 2009, june - aug. 2010: Shot and edited

videos, compiled interactive graphics, reported for the Web and print + Kappa Tau Alpha journalism honor

society

MeDIll neWS SerVICe washington d.c., chicago + Mortar Board senior honor society

+ business reporter sept. 2009 - june 2010: Reported business stories + Alpha Lambda Delta freshman

for wire service; articles picked up by MarketWatch, Fox Business, honor society

Dow Jones, McClatchy, among others + Women s Education Aid Association

scholar

ChICago trIBune/reDeye chicago + Recipeint of John Brownell

+ copy editor dec. 2009 - march 2010: Fact checked, wrote headlines Memorial Scholarship Fund for print

+ reporting intern march - june 2009: Reported on stories for Chicago journalists

Tribune s tabloid publication with a daily circulation of 200,000; + Recipient of Harold F. Grumhaus

portfolio includes two cover stories; articles picked up by Chicago Memorial Scholarship Fund for

tribune, los angeles times, Baltimore Sun, among others journalists

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