Sunday, July 26, 2015

My resume

Lisa Kohlbrenner     multimedia journalist and editor 


EXPERIENCE 
Assignment editor  FOX 30/CBS 47 Action News, Jacksonville, Fla.  August 2012-June 2015Runs assignment desk, pitches stories, maintains contact with outside sources, police and fire departments, assigns news units. Helps department heads to coordinate production activities. Help to write and edit online stories and social posts. Books interviews and satellite time as needed. Answers viewer calls, sends nightly daysheet, tracks court case, events, government meetings.

Copy editor   Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla.   June 2000-July 2001, Feb. 2003-Sept. 2011
*Print duties: Edited news, feature and business stories for grammar, style, content, and consistency. Wrote headlines and photo captions. Served as a chief and/or pressroom liaison several times a week, working directly with pre-press and printing staff to ensure deadlines were met.  Regularly designed seven community news zoned sections in addition to editing the stories. Wrote stories for print and blogs for Jacksonville.com.
**Non-print duties: Posted stories to and moderated comments on Jacksonville.com; managed five-person TV team in coordination with news partner First Coast News; served as on-air talent for 11:15 p.m. “Tomorrow’s Headlines Tonight” live TV segment; read and produced weekly radio teases for WJCT 89.9 FM.  

Radio host/intern    WHLG-FM Coast 101.3, Stuart, Fla.                                        February 2002- February 2003
Served as on-air personality. Voice-tracked the midnight to 5 a.m. shift. 

News copy chief     The Stuart News, Stuart, Fla.                                            July 2001-February 2003
Served as nightside editor on all stories and as liaison with pressroom to ensure deadlines were met. Edited stories for grammar, style, content and more. Wrote headlines and other display text.  Designed section fronts.
Edited stories, wrote headlines, designed section fronts and designed inside pages for 50,000-circulation daily.

Journalist     Palatka Daily News,         Palatka, Fla.                       October 1998-July 1999
Served as reporter/photographer/copy editor/website editor for daily paper serving 20,000  people. 

Writing samples: http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/lisa-kohlbrenners-blog  OR  lisakohlbrenner.blogspot.com

Education and training 
University of Florida, bachelor of science degree in journalism, 1998
Newsplex in Columbia, S.C., convergence training. Week of training on various media, May 2003


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