Marketing & Communications Manager

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Huber Heights, OH ***** 740-***-**** **************@*****.***

Alicia Coffman

Education August 2004-April 2008 Brigham Young University Provo, Utah

BA in Communications, Print Journalism emphasis

Awards:

 2nd place in the National Newspaper Association Best Education Article contest.

 Kappa Tau Alpha member, which is the National Honor Society in Journalism.

 Forace Green Journalism Award, which is for the outstanding, most promising graduating senior in the communications department – about 3,000 students.

Work experience

Feb. 2009 – Jan. 2010 Columbus County School District

Grant writer, public relations coordinator, web master

 Write grants for school district and 18 individual schools

 Write news releases for district and individual schools

 Write news articles and take photos for district and individual schools

 Create appropriate coding and html listings for articles and photos for Web site

 Write letters in support or disapproval of bills on behalf of the superintendent

 On board of Education Foundation

July 2008-Nov. 2008 The Columbus Dispatch 199,524 circ. (Daily) Web Intern

 Wrote Web exclusive articles and web content

 Created Web photo slideshows daily

 Created appropriate coding and html listings for articles and photos for Web site

 Did research for back log articles on Web site

April 2008-June 2008 Newsweek 3,160,000 circ. (Weekly) Web Intern Reporter

 Wrote articles for Newsweek.com or printed publication daily

 Did research for articles to be written by senior writers

 Came up with story ideas for other writers as well as myself daily

 Attended daily planning meetings with senior editors

September 2007-April 2008 The Daily Universe 18,500 circ. (Daily) Editor in Chief

 Chose which stories will run on the front page daily

 Edited all stories that ran on the front page

 Read and chose the Associated Press stories that ran each day

 Supervised front page package decisions

 Organized and ran front page meetings

June-August 2007 The Marietta Times 11,000 circ. (Daily)

Intern Reporter

 Wrote two articles a day, full-time, five days a week

 Took my own photographs

 Responded to police calls

 Used microfilm to find news from 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago for each day of publication

May-June 2007 Columbus Parent Magazine 20,000 circ. (Monthly)

Intern and writer

 Intern for magazine editor in chief, Donna Willis

 Did research for other writers

 Wrote the feature article for June issue

 Assisted with laying out pages

 Wrote advertisement inserts

 Wrote articles for online edition

September-December 2006 The Daily Universe 18,500 circ. (Daily) [ City, State ]

Reporter

 Covered education in Utah County, which included covering three school districts

 Wrote stories of differing styles such as Wall Street Journal Style as well as profile, in-depth, feature and human interest stories

 Formed relationships with education professionals on the school, district and state level in Utah

Freelance 2007: At Home in Columbus, Columbus Health Source Magazine

References Available upon request.

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