High School Assistant

Location:

Las Vegas, NV

Posted:

February 10, 2013

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Resume:

writer, journalist, all-around can-do girl.

Roxanna Asgarian

***********@*****.*** 702-***-****

Writing experience:

Work has been published in The New York Press, NYPOST.com, The New York Times The Local, The Brooklyn Paper, Bay News, CRATE Literary Magazine, AOL Patch and The Daily Texan.

New York Magazine

Assistant Editor, February 2012 present

Copy-edited everything that went up on NYMag.com, including Daily Intel and Grub Street blogs and The Cut and Vulture websites. Helped relaunch The Cut as a standalone site, and contributed to the high-volume and precise output of New York Magazine s vast web presence.

The Local, Brooklyn blog of the New York Times

Associate Editor, Fall 2011 and Freelance Reporter, Fall 2010 Spring 2011

Edited work of community contributors as well as first-semester graduate students. Handled the site s daily content and social media output, and storyboarded multifaceted projects focused on maximizing community engagement. Frequently wrote both hard news and features tailored to a small community of engaged residents.

VBS.tv, VICE Media

Intern, Summer 2011

Vice s online news channel, VBS.tv, broadened my skill set to include preproduction and production of a high-energy broadcast product. Researched extensively for international news pieces and contributed pitches and ideas to the production team. Did the production bible for a story about assassinations of environmental activists in the Amazon that ended up on CNN.com.

The Brooklyn Paper

Editorial Intern, Summer 2010

Sent out daily to cover a wide range of news pertinent to Brooklyn and its many diverse neighborhoods. Contributed weekly to the Brooklyn Paper, and was published on the front page of the Park Slope Courier and the Bay News.

The Daily Texan

Copy Editor, News Reporter, Senior Life & Arts Writer, and Weekly Columnist, 2006 2009

Published multiple front-page stories and ran a weekly Life & Arts column for the University of Texas s daily student newspaper, which has a circulation of 30,000.

Education:

MA from City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, 2011

Bachelor of Journalism degree from University of Texas, Austin, 2009

Honor s diploma, Chaparral High School, Las Vegas, 2005

Skills:

Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, WordPress, Movable Type, and other content management systems, and can shoot and edit photo and video.

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