Resume
Contact: caseycora@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Reporter – tampabay.com April 2007 – present
Produce the newspaper’s breaking news blog; responsibilities on any given day include police reporting, news photography, finding and creating multimedia opportunities, crafting Web headlines and coordinating breaking news coverage across multiple bureaus.
Reporter – Dec. 2006 – April 2007
Covered the evening shift as a police reporter and general assignment writer in the newspaper’s flagship newsroom in St. Petersburg.
Reporter – May 2006 – Dec. 2006
Covered community news, including city government and general assignment, for the twice-weekly Neighborhood Times section.
EDUCATION
•Master of Arts, Journalism and Media Studies - Dec. 2007
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
•Bachelor of Arts, Journalism - Dec. 2004
Eastern Illinois University
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION and TRAINING
• Screened entries for the Online Journalism Association 2008 Awards in the “Investigative Journalism: Large” category.
• Participated in audio storytelling, online writing and video planning classes at the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors multimedia workshop in Tampa, Fla. in May 2008.
• Attended (virtually) “Writing Headlines for the Web,” a NewsU.org webinar sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, July 31, 2007.
•Taught an Introduction to Mass Media class to 40+ undergraduates while serving as a teaching assistant to two nationally-recognized scholars in journalism ethics.
WEB JOURNALISM and SOFTWARE
Proficient in Web-based news platforms and multiple blogging software suites; iMovie; SoundSlides; Audacity; learning to operate in a Django framework; above-average familiarity with the Adobe software suite, including Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop and GoLive; can adapt quickly to new content management systems. Initiating an ambitious database-driven project about Tampa Bay homicides.
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