Experience

Managing editor | Casper Star-Tribune    
Casper, WY | June 2015 to present
• Led the reporting team for Wyoming’s statewide newspaper.
• Responsible for building the daily print plan and managing online and social media content.
• Worked with other managers to develop a long-term plan for print and digital products.
• Mentored a team of reporters who earned multiple state and regional awards for their reporting and writing.
• Enhanced the online product for the newspaper’s entertainment section and lifestyles magazine.

Assistant content director/features coordinator | Casper Star-Tribune    
Casper, WY | November 2013 to June 2015
• Supervised the Star-Tribune’s features and entertainment sections while assisting in newsroom management.
• Revamped a lifestyles magazine that now enjoys a growing readership and advertising base.
• Served as writing coach for the news reporting team named best in the state by the Wyoming Press Association.
• Led a features project that followed the son of a civil rights martyr as he traveled from Casper to Selma.

Reporter | Casper Star-Tribune    
Casper, WY | January 2007 to November 2013
• General assignment reporter with emphasis on health coverage and storytelling. Also covered crime and courts.
• Made the Star-Tribune the state’s top source for health news. Authored an award-winning series on Obamacare.
• Covered earthquake relief work in Haiti while embedded with a medical response team from Wyoming. Filed more than 40 blog posts and stories while traveling the country after the 2010 disaster.
• Spearheaded a six-month examination of Wyoming’s high suicide rate. Honored with a Top of the Rockies award.

Reporter | The Union Democrat
Sonora, CA | June 2003 to August 2006
• Wrote government, environment and crime stories for an afternoon daily.
• Documented the financial struggles of a failing public hospital, chronicled people living off the grid in the Sierra Nevada and investigated controversial Gold Country land developments.

Reporter | BeniciaNews.com/VallejoNews.com
Benicia, CA | July 2001 to April 2003
• Covered two California cities for a hyper-local news site. Reported on crime, government and schools.
• BenicianNews.com team earned top honors from Online News Association.

Intern | Center for Investigative Reporting
San Francisco, CA | September 2001 to December 2001
• Assisted reporters through online and public-records research and interviewed sources for investigative projects.

Awards

• 1st place, in-depth reporting, Wyoming Press Association (2013, 2014)
• Rural health journalism fellowship, Association of Health Care Journalists (2013)
• 1st place, health reporting, Top of the Rockies (2012)
• 1st place, general news, Wyoming Press Association (2008, 2010)
• Susan Yoachum award for political reporting (2000)

Education

San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA
• 2001 Graduate – Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.
• Graduated Summa Cum Laude with 3.96 GPA.

References available upon request