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JOURNALISM
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Research, write, and produce daily reports, features and larger
projects for major news organizations.
-- Collect and edit digital audio for use in radio broadcast
-- Interview subjects, gather ambient sound, record voiceover and
mix final pieces
-- Work in print, radio and web, including voice talent in all radio
work
-- Write grants and queries and manage project budgets
Areas of emphasis: science, medicine, technology, law, and
cultural issues. Experience in many U.S. cities as well as overseas.
Recognitions:
First place, reporting series, WA Press Assn.
Third place, documentary, WA Press Assn.
Special projects grant, WA Commission for the Humanities
MULTIMEDIA
-- Research content
themes, help direct visual design
-- Collaborate with others to direct narrative concepts
-- Manage production of small- and large-scale projects, oversee
and manage contributing
writers, programmers and artists
-- Create web pages and graphics, process media, including audio,
video and animations
Areas
of emphasis: documentary, journalistic and educational
web-based projects
Recognitions:
Webby, Education category (Exploratorium)
PBS/POV Web Development Fund grant (Working Stiff)
Yahoo Site of the Week
(Working Stiff)
RESEARCH/WRITING
-- Conduct deep
library research, including legal, medical and government documents
-- Create oral histories and use interviews as research tool
-- Judge accuracy, currency, and context of source material
-- Write factual and persuasive papers of varying length, from single-page
essays to multi-chapter documents of over 100 pages
Areas of emphasis: immigration
and refugee policy, international relations, medical and bioethics
Recognitions:
MA in International Studies, including Masters Thesis on the
media of
Russian immigrants in the United States. (U of WA)
TEACHING
-- Develop teacher
guides to accompany online science education sites
-- Create short
curriculum units for high school students, focused on cultural studies,
history, social studies, environmental issues, and science
-- Guest teacher and speaker in public high schools
-- Coordinate outreach efforts from university to teachers in public
schools, work with
teachers to develop educational materials
Areas of emphasis: ethnic and
cultural studies, science, international relations
SCIENCE
-- Conduct and
report on experiments in biochemistry laboratories
-- Research and write educational materials
-- Report about issues in the science community
Areas of emphasis: biotechnology,
agriculture, and medical ethics.
Recognitions:
Published as co-author in Brain Science
Cited as lab technician in Biochemistry
First place, reporting series, WA Press Assn., five-part series
on biotechnology
LANGUAGE
SKILLS
Experience working and reporting in Russian, conversational in French.
Reading
knowledge of Hebrew.
International reporting experience in Kiev, Ukraine, St. Petersburg,
Russia and Melbourne,
Australia.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Web:
HTML (hard code) * Photoshop * Dreamweaver * BB Edit * Flash * Freehand
Audio:
SaDie system * Sound Forge
* Protools * Deck II * Sound Edit * Analog
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