Writer/Editor

SALLY S. GRAHAM

**** ****** ****** ● Lilburn, GA 30047 ● 678-***-**** ● *****@********.***

WORK HISTORY

CNN International Atlanta, GA ● February 2000 – Present

Writer ● 2005 – Present

● Exercise sound editorial judgment to produce accurate, balanced scripts using AP style

● Build beat of the day with latest video and graphic elements under strict deadlines

● Proactively pitch hard and feature stories on international affairs

● Solicit feedback from team members: producers, supervisors, copy editors and fellow writers

● Provide guidance to associate producers, editorial coordinators

● Write, produce and voice reports on cultural topics on a freelance basis

Writer/Producer, Special Projects Rotation ● March 2008 – January 2009

● Wrote for World Report, CNN’s longest running feature show

● Edited copy from contributors around the world

● Wrote, field produced, line produced, and managed post production of EcoSolutions

● Maintained EcoSolutions Facebook page

● Managed CNN Heroes coverage for CNNi

Coordinating Producer/Writer ● September 2001 – March 2005

● Coordinated live shots and video elements for daily hour-long news and business shows

● Wrote news, sports and business crawl items

Video Journalist/Inside Africa Production Assistant ● February 2000 – August 2001

● Wrote top story and Question of the Day for feature show’s weekly web page

● Produced viewer e-mail segment

● Supervised interns

Georgia Council for the Arts Atlanta, GA ● 1999 – 2000

Technical Writing Consultant

● Provided editing assistance to grant applicants throughout metro-Atlanta

● Made site visits and prepared reports outlining recommendations

Palau Community College Republic of Palau, Micronesia ● 1996 – 1998

Social Science and English Instructor

● Negotiated with WKCR FM to establish and supervise the first student-run radio show in the entire country

● Provided voice-overs, PSA's, and wrote ad copy

● Developed and taught Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Introduction to Field Ethnography

● Spearheaded and publicized a popular “brown bag” Pacific Film Fridays series

● Featured in the Tia Belau, the national newspaper of Palau

Duke University Durham, North Carolina ● 1994

Oral Historian, Center for Documentary Studies

● Presented information about the project on local TV and radio shows

● Interviewed and strategized with African American religious, political, and community leaders in Albany, GA and the South Carolina Sea Islands to document personal experiences of legal segregation

Seabrook School Foundation Midway, GA ● 1993

Executive Director

● Provided scholarly recommendations to living history museum on African American culture

● Supervised four restoration employees

University of Mississippi Oxford, MS ● 1992 - 1993

Field Researcher, Sponsored by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Atlanta, GA

● Conducted and transcribed 100+ Marantz audio, reel-to-reel interviews for documentary of 30,000-acre plantation.

● Wrote fieldnotes, tape-recorded and transcribed 50+ church services.

● Photographed residents and daily events

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

Peabody Journalism Award 2008 ● RAVE Review 2008 ● Writer for CNN Today – Asian TV’s “Best News Program” - 2006

DuPont Award for Broadcast Journalism 2005 ● Peabody Journalism Award 2005

Jefferson Journalism Fellowship – East-West Center 2004 ● National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar - East-West Center 1997

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Forthcoming, entries on Mildred Taylor and Jerry Clower, Mississippi Encyclopedia, 2011.

Contributor, book review, Singing in Zion: Music and Song in an Arkansas Family, Mississippi Folklife, Spring 1999.

Guest Presenter, “Asian Women Workers in the Service Industry of Palau: A Preliminary Investigation of Sex Trafficking,” Moving Cultures: Remaking Asia-Pacific Studies Conference, East-West Center, June 1998.

American Studies Lecturer, “The Land Where Deer Sleep: The Cultural Traditions of Georgia’s Ichauway Plantation,” Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, March 1995.

Contributor, “’God Got to Raise Up Somebody’: Carolyn King on the Role of Women in the Church and the Origin of Sin,” CrossRoads: a journal of southern culture, March 1994.

EDUCATION

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS ● M.A. Southern Studies ● August 1993

Columbia University, New York, NY ● B.A. History ● May 1990

Junior Year - School for International Training ● Kenya 1989 / Rollins College ● Australia 1988

Yale University ● Summer 1985

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