WORK EXPERIENCE            


KESQ News Channel 3 (ABC), Palm Springs, California            June 2011-Present
Bilingual News Reporter
·        Reporter for the 5, 6, 10, and 11 newscasts·        Fill-in anchor for the weekend newscasts 



KTLA-5, Los Angeles, California                                                 June 2010-August 2010
Intern - Entertainment Department

·       Assisted in live morning show production

·       Wrote scripts/interviews for morning show celebrity guests

·       Interviewed for junkets and Red Carpet movie premieres

·       Produced ‘Music Spotlights’ on new music artists

·       Edited packages/VOs and pitched story ideas


KTLA-5, Los Angeles, California                                                June 2009-August 2009
Intern - Entertainment Department

·       Assisted in live morning show production

·       Wrote scripts/interviews straight for air

·       Interviewed for junkets and Red Carpet movie premieres

·       Produced ‘Music Spotlights’ on new music artists

·       Edited packages/VOs and pitched story ideas


E! Entertainment, Los Angeles, California                                  May 2010-August 2010
Intern - E! News Now

·       Assisted in E! News Now online video production

·       Prepared plasma, framed shots, and ran teleprompter in studio for talent

·       Pitched story ideas

 
FOX Sports, Los Angeles, California                                          May 2010-August 2010                                        
Intern – Foxsports.com Video Production

·       Worked in FOXSports.com video production department

·       Edited sports videos to go on FOXSports.com

 
KOMU-8 News Station (NBC), Columbia, Missouri                  September 2007-May 2011           
Anchor/Reporter

·       Dayside/live reporter

·       Anchor of ‘Around the World’ news segment

·       News/Sports anchor
EDUCATION                                    

University of Missouri, B.A.                                                   May 2011 

School of Journalism                                   

Radio-TV Journalism

Dual Degree: Spanish      Minor:  Sociology         


ORGANIZATIONS                       

University of Missouri Honors College                                 April 2009-Present
Ambassador                                                                                                 

·       Student representative for the University of Missouri Honors College

·       Travel to high schools in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia raising awareness of the Mizzou Honors College

·       Attend monthly meetings

 

Missouri Student Association                                               September 2008-Present                          
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee member

·       Member of the Chancellor’s Student Unions Advisory Committee and the Chancellor’s Recreational Advisory Committee

·       One of two students on these faculty committees

·       Meet a few times every semester and discuss campus student unions/recreational issues

·       Report minutes of meeting back to the Missouri Student Association

 


ORGANIZATIONS                        

Tiger Crew                                                                            October 2008-Present

·       Advertise for the Missouri Baseball Team

·       Lead crowd spirit section during baseball games

·       Provide bats for hitters and rake the field

·       Chosen over 70 applicants

 

Friday Night Fever                                                                September 2009-Present              

·       KOMU-8’s high school football coverage           

·       Collect information on the football games

·       Assist photographers

·       Shoot football games

·       Edit highlights for the 10pm sportscast

 

PROFESSIONAL                        

Radio-Television Digital News Association                          September 2007-Present

Member

·       Attend monthly meetings

Spanish Club                                                                          August 2010-Present

Founding member

·       Meet weekly for a ‘conversation table’

 

SKILLS                                                                 

·       On-air broadcast experience at KOMU, KTLA, E!, and FOX Sports

·       Detail-oriented, enthusiastic, highly motivated, innovative, resourceful, open-minded, affective public speaker

·       Fluent in Spanish

·       Proficient in Avid Newscutter XP, Final Cut Pro, iNews, DAISY, ENPS, TONS, Photoshop,  Snapstream,  News Navigator,  can shoot with Sony PMWEX-1 HD Cam, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 

 

REFERENCES

Lorraine Viruez, KTLA-5 Entertainment Producer
lviruez@tribune.com
323.470.3756

Stacey Woelfel, KOMU-8 News Director
staceywoelfel@komu.com
573.884.6397