Customer Service Representative

GEORGE SZOSTAK

** ***** ******, **** ***, Stoney Creek, Ontario L8J 1M0

*************@*****.*** H 519-***-****

COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA RELATIONS

Experienced broadcast journalist with strong writing and communications skills Skills & Abilities:

• Researching and gathering information in a timely fashion to write stories under deadline.

• Recognizing reliable and relevant content through reputable sources and established contacts.

• Explaining issues succinctly on television and public speaking to live audiences.

• Proof reading and vetting scripts while giving guidance to others who gather information and write stories.

• Generating communication ideas and assigning reporting, writing and presentation tasks to reporters and photographers.

• Coordinating projects and deploying resources including people and equipment to cover breaking news and developing events while taking direction from superiors and collaborating with team members.

• Attending in person and digesting information from federal and provincial government budget lockups, criminal trials in court, news conferences, city council meetings, or public hearings such as bankruptcy proceedings and writing details from those proceedings to deadlines and explaining details on television.

• A keen visual sense for presenting people, issues, or events in visual media.

• A strong interest, understanding and following of the economy, financial markets, financial services industry, all levels of politics including municipal and corporate news.

• Working effectively with co-workers, source contacts, private and public groups in an effort to understand issues and to develop and foster valuable relationships. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LCBO

Customer Service Representative (2019- 2022)

Cashier, product display, and helping customers find and select products at a Liquor Control Board retail outlet. CTV – NATIONAL NEWS

Freelance Assignment Editor (2018 to 2019)

Working with CTV News affiliates across Canada and with national reporters, writers and resources staff involved in producing CTV National News.

Contract Assignment Editor (2017 to 2018)

Assigning CTV National domestic news stories, vetting scripts, working with reporters, writers and resources staff in producing CTV National News.

GEORGE SZOSTAK

30 Times Square, unit 170, Stoney Creek, Ontario L8J 1M0 *************@*****.*** H 519-***-****

CHCH TV – HAMILTON ON

Assignment Editor for CHCH Morning Live (2002 to 2015) Responsible for being aware of news developments locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and selecting those events to be presented in daily three-hour broadcasts and to expand coverage of those events from outside sources or deploying our own people and equipment. On a daily basis under deadlines, developing story ideas, assigning news gathering crews including writers, reporters, photographers, video editors, microwave truck operators and creators of graphics. As assignment editor for a live on-air program, serving as the main communications hub for crews in the field such as reporters and photographers, truck operators, newsroom writers and video editors, control room director and producer, management, and outside communications including police, media and corporate relations people, government agencies and the public.

CHCH TV – HAMILTON ON

Business Editor – Producer (1996 to 2000)

Developed the program concept for “The Morning Market” and initiated the partnership between CHCH-TV and Bloomberg Information Television in New York to launch and broadcast Canada’s first daily two-hour TV business program on a multi-screen format that provided business, economic and financial markets news using Bloomberg resources and those of CHCH.

As producer and co-host of “The Morning Market” I negotiated the use of the Bloomberg multi-screen format to include Canadian content that included my daily interviews with business and financial markets news makers from trading rooms at Canadian financial institutions, The Toronto Stock Exchange and in trading rooms in New York. CHCH TV – HAMILTON ON

Business Editor (1988 to 2000)

As business editor, I created and hosted a nightly business report at CHCH TV that aired every week day during the evening news, covering business and economic news along with financial markets which included interviews with corporate leaders, economists and industry analysts. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

General assignment reporter covering municipal affairs, crime and social issues at CHCH TV, Reporter-Anchor CFCL TV in Timmins, News Writer CHML Radio in Hamilton and sports reporter at the Hamilton Spectator. EDUCATION

Communication Arts diploma with a major in Broadcast Journalism from Mohawk College in Hamilton, included studies in economics and advertising. Participated in the Canadian Securities Course at the Canadian Securities Institute.

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