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Kim Kern

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Guilford, Connecticut 06437 *************@*****.***

EXPERIENCE

THE BOSTON GLOBE – Boston, Massachusetts 01/2012-06/2012

BLOGGER

Demonstrated ability to meet strict deadlines on a daily basis; strong ability to multitask and prioritize interviews, writing, recording and editing videos.

Key member of team responsible for investigative reporting on recovering tornado victims of Western Massachusetts. Work published on Boston.com and Bostonglobe.com.

Interviewed children among the affected areas from the tornado. Produced, edited, recorded, and published video titled “Children of the Storm”. Worked closely with Globe editors to master a final product.

WGGB-TV ABC40/FOX6 – Springfield, Massachusetts 12/2011-05/2012

PRODUCER/INTERN

Fully immersed in day to day operations of a fast paced newsroom including producing, shooting, editing and reporting. Helped generate story ideas in morning news meeting.

Traveled with camera crew to stories to research and produce on-air VO/SOTs. Writing and reporting seen on-air.

UVC-TV-19 – Amherst, MA 09/2011-12/2011

ON-AIR REPORTER

Responsible for creating, writing and editing packages on current events around campus

Conducted interviews and collected data on hard and soft news for weekly broadcast.

SUMO SKINNY LLC – Boston, MA 06/2011-12/2011

INTERN/BLOGGER

Contributed to blog targeted at college audience. Interpreted news in a more readable way to the average college student.

Created own story ideas. Wrote and reported multimedia content on health education in weekly blog

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN – Amherst, MA 09/2008- 04/2010

REPORTER/WRITER

Participated in morning news meetings to help generate story ideas on current events on news.

Brainstormed story ideas, researched and conducted interviews, drafted a solid article, sat down with editors to edit and produce a final product seen in the daily newspaper.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST - Amherst, MA 09/2008-05/2012

Bachelor of Art in Journalism, MAJOR GPA 3.64 - Dean’s List

Certified Political Science Minor

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Conversational Spanish, Conversational French TECHNICAL: Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, iNews, MS Office - Word, Excel, Access, Power Point; Research Databases, Windows Movie Maker, IMovie, Many Eyes, Avid Studio SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Delicious, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger

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