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Jeannette Belliveau, resume

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Objective

Web design portfolio

To find a communications position that takes advantage of my versatility,

Testimonials and creativity and energy.

written references

Strengths

Supervising and inspiring reporters; boosting morale and teamwork;

editing and writing news, sports, features and photo captions; generating

marketing themes and tactics; designing publications and web sites;

photography.

Demand Media Studios: Livestrong.com

Writer/Copy editor

2009-present

Write and copy edit articles on soccer, squash, fitness, health, sports,

Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Alaska for Demand Studios,

which provides content for Livestrong.com, eHow.com, Trails.com,

Travels.com and related online information sites. Many articles focus on

soccer history, Zumba, women's fitness, weight training, restaurants, golf

courses, karaoke, hotels, dance clubs and luxury vacations.

Clips:

Contact:

How to Coach for Professional Soccer Training

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Nigeria National Soccer Team History

203 S. Ann St.

Baltimore, Md 21231

Mechanics Of The Ball Game Soccer

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Soccer & Its History in France

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Pro Soccer Information

Costa Rica Soccer Team History

2010-10-05

How to Get on a Men's College Soccer Team

Describe Soccer Cleats

Which Youth Soccer Shoes Have the Best Control?

What Is Considered a Goal in Soccer?

Women's National Soccer Teams

Alaska Newspapers

Copy editor, designer,

acting managing editor

2004-08

Major achievements: Coached entry-level staff to record number of

press awards for past two years.

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Copyedited six rural newspapers in Alaska. Young reporters won 14

Alaska Press Club awards in 2008-09.

Assigned reporters and taught the craft of journalism when filling in

for managing edtor.

Reported on Washington-area stories related to Alaska, including

the Supreme Court hearing on the Exxon Valdez oil spill damages,

the Senator Stevens investigation, the Alaska Federation of Natives

and the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.

Designed the Tundra Drums, Cordova Times, Arctic Sounder

and Dutch Harbor Fisherman, both on site in Anchorage and via

long-distance telecommute.

Edited online and blog content, including roving reporter's visit to

Greenland .

Beau Monde Press

Author, publisher, Web designer

1995-present

Major achievements: Wrote two books that had substantial impact on

how cultural geography and intercultural communication are taught and

on the debate on romance travel.

Author of a book used in 30 colleges to teach cultural geography

and intercultural communication: An Amateur's Guide to the

Planet: Twelve Adventure Journeys and Lessons for the

Contemporary United States . Also author of Romance on the

Road: Traveling Women Who Love Foreign Men, subject of

numerous BBC interviews.

Speak at colleges on culturally sensitive and adventure travel.

Speak on live radio and television.

Web design for own company, Beau Monde Press, as well as

other publishing, music and dental health companies.

The Baltimore Sun

Assistant financial editor

1987-92, 1998-2000

Major achievements: Won praise for skilled editing from often-critical

reporters such as film critic Stephen Hunter, who later won a Pulitzer

Prize, and Edward Gunts, noted architecture critic.

Editing goals: Precision of language, clarity of concepts, accuracy,

maintaining author's voice.

As assistant financial editor/graphics, analyzed data for

business-related graphics.

As acting financial day editor, supervised 12 reporters, created

news budgets, represented Business Desk at story conference,

shaped weekend analysis pieces.

As sports copy editor, edited, formatted and wrote headlines on

stories, checked accuracy of statistics against almanacs and

encyclopedias, occasionally required to extensively edit stories for

space or content reasons. Specialties: Washington Redskins, NFL,

soccer, sailing, NBA, sports finance.

As features copy editor, edited wide variety of articles, columns

and reviews.

Specialties: movies, gourmet food, World Beat music, Baltimore

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neighborhoods.

As metro copy editor, edited metro stories and projects, including

"The Urban Teen-Ager" by Kathy Lally. Strong headlines, accuracy

and speed cited frequently by slots.

The Washington Post

Graphics editor

1992-95

Major achievements: Helped vault The Washington Post past the better-

staffed New York Times with comprehensive coverage of elections, the

national Census and breaking news, including the O.J. trial.

Gathered information and designed graphics for the National and Foreign

sections of The Washington Post. Worked collaboratively with artists as

they created maps, illustrations, charts and infographics. Did original data

analysis on PAC spending to create charts for the Federal Page.

Major projects:

1992 and 1994 elections O.J. Simpson trail South Africa elections Los

Angeles riots World Trade Center bombing 1990 census Hurricane

Andrew Somalia intervention Fighting in Bosnia Great Flood of 1993

Additional journalism experience

Gaithersburg (Md.) Gazette

State news editor, copy desk chief, supervising numerous full- and

part-time copy editors.

Surrey Advertiser, Surrey, England

Copy editor on paper owned by The Guardian.

Montgomery Journal

Education and features reporter, winning six writing awards. Night

editor.

National Institutes of Health

Medical writer for the National Institute of Neurological

Disorders and Stroke; intern in four other institutes and at the

NIH Clinical Center.

Awards

Six writing awards from the Maryland-D.C.-Delaware Press

Association .

Led reporters at Alaska Newspapers to record 13 wins in two years

at Alaska Press Clubs.

Advanced Toastmaster certificate for completion of speech-writing

modules.

Numerous trophies for indoor soccer.

Software, language, visual information competencies

Software : QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Pagespinner (elegant html

coding), Movable Type (blogging), Adobe Acrobat professional,

Acrobat Distiller, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).

Languages : French, basic Spanish, some Indonesian, Swahili,

Chinese, Japanese.

Visual information: Attended renowned Edward Tufte's

Washington, D.C., one-day course on elegant and logical

presentation of graphics and statistical data.

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Education

University of Maryland, College Park, 1976, summa cum laude in

journalism.

Fellowships, international experience

Jefferson Fellow at East-West Center in Hawaii, 1991. Two months

of study on Asian-Pacific issues and reporting from Japan, China

and Borneo.

Worked for U.K. newspaper for more than three years.

Written extensively about Madagascar, China, Greece, Kenya,

Tanzania, Polynesia, the Yucatan, Indonesia and Brazil.

Studied Spanish during 2009 trip to language school in Copan

Ruinas, Honduras.

Community, professional service

Past secretary and treasurer for Upper Fells Point Improvement

Association.

Founding member of the Travel Publishers Association .

Past member, Investigative Reporters and Editors.

"Strong mastery of

technology."

"Thank you for your

superb work."

"I've heard nothing but

good things about your

terrific Colin Powell

piece."

"Brilliant, go-getter,

can-do attitude, can-do

ANYTHING!"

"Old school in her work

ethic."

More testimonials

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