Resume

The Des Moines Register

Des Moines, Iowa

Digital Producer II/Content Creator

Devised and executed SEO strategies to grow statewide sports search traffic by 4 million referrals from 2023 to 2024, and expanded digital audience by uploading content to YouTube and Instagram
Produced daily trending content about Iowa, Iowa State, Drake and Northern Iowa Athletics

January 2024 - Present

The Star Press

Ball State Athletics Reporter, High School Sports Editor

Muncie, Ind.

December 2022 - January 2024

Covered Ball State Athletics, writing weekly array of analysis, feature, trend and breaking news stories
Revived absent East Central Indiana high school sports coverage by hiring, assigning, editing and publishing stories from a network of freelance writers and photographers of varying experience and quality

Sports Reporter, Photographer

Led sports coverage of 16 high schools through digitally-focused stories and personally-shot pictures/video that prioritized premium content, expanding our subscription base and garnering over 500,000 pageviews
Became area’s leader in breaking news, game coverage, highlight videos/photographs and feature content
Assisted with Ball State Athletics coverage, specifically football, men’s basketball and baseball

October 2021 - December 2022

Palladium-Item

Richmond, Ind.

Sports and Education Reporter, Photographer

Managed and produced all content for sports and education sections, writing digitally-focused enterprise, feature, preview, award, breaking news and trend stories daily packaged with personally-shot pictures/video
Generated 350,000+ pageviews by building source network that led to breaking news and exclusive stories

November 2020 - October 2021

Fadeaway World

NBA Writer

Increased website’s depth of basketball coverage by publishing daily NBA blogs on trending league news, analysis, trade rumors, historic rankings and profiles with improved journalistic standards
Produced content with fresh and intriguing angles to over 6 million followers on Facebook and Twitter

June 2020 - October 2020

USA Today

McLean, Va.

Sports Team Intern

Gathered NCAA basketball, NFL and MLB data for annual March Madness, NFL Draft and spring training print editions, and published COVID-19 and major sports breaking news/trending topics digital content
Reported on an XFL game, wrote feature on Eli Rogers that was the most viewed story throughout the USA Today network on the date of publishing with over 400,000 initial pageviews

January 2020 - May 2020

The Diamondback

College Park, Md.

Women’s Basketball Beat Reporter

Wrote preview, breaking news, feature, and game stories and gave on-camera interviews during the season

October 2019 - May 2020