Positions held

September 2017 – present. Journalist at The Ararat Advertiser (Australian Community Media, formerly Fairfax Media):

  • Building and maintaining relationships with community members, police, politicians, councils, and government bodies.

  • Cover breaking news, sometimes with live blogs.

  • Writing accurate stories to three daily digital deadlines and twice-weekly print publication

  • Cover Magistrates’, County and Supreme court, crime, council, community and sports news, among other beats

  • Writing features

  • Manage our social media channel (primarily Facebook)

  • Allocate relevant stories for our print publication, including front and sometimes back page

  • Handle complaints and feedback with minimal assistance

  • Photography and video skills for web stories

2017 August-September 2018, Cadet reporter at the Loddon Times (no website) and Gannawarra Times.

  • break stories important to the local community across two LGAs
  • cover events and produce stories for a tri-weekly deadline
  • still and sports photography for articles
  • maintain website; devise and manage social media strategy (Facebook, Twitter).
  • interview talent, community members, local and state politicians

2017 July-August, intern at ABC 7.30:

  • researching stories
  • fact checking
  • transcription
  • developing story pitches
  • shadow editors and film crew

2017  Freelance writer/reporter for the Yarra Reporter:

  • reporting on local events and issues
  • taking my own photos for articles where relevant
  • pitching stories and meeting deadlines

2017  Staff writer and sub-editor for Rabelais Student Magazine:

  • writing feature pieces for several editions of the magazine
  • editing articles submitted by students and guest contributors
  • I also wrote the style guide for our editing team
  • managing social media

2017  Staff writer for upstart:

  • weekly shifts covering hard news events
  • writing feature pieces
  • sub-editing guest contributions
  • writing and posting on social media
  • uploading media to the blog and making info-graphics to enrich stories.

2015  Current affairs reporter for 3CR radio:

  • sourcing stories
  • interviewing talent
  • recording and filing packages to a weekly deadline
  • light social media promotion.