Lindsey Nolen: Assistant Editor in Raleigh, NC

Research and developed article summaries for the website. Located stories of importance to condense. Wrote in-depth feature stories, edited clips. Ran website while Editor was in Italy for two weeks (September 28, 2014 - October 13, 2014).

Manage social media and coalition websites, event planning, organize guest speaking opportunities, create iContact newsletters, uploading contacts, managing newsletter success statistics, create updates, overlook public policy issue activity, lobbying and advocacy

Excavated and analyzed archeological findings on the North Ridge in Petra, Jordan. Our findings shed light on the Nabataean peoples who resided in northern Arabia and the Southern Levant from CE 37 - c. 100. http://petranorthridgeproject.wordpress.com/about/

Reports on City Council issues/concerns/changes Attend City Council meetings and Interview City Councilors Attend city workshops Blog from specific locations about occurrences in downtown Raleigh, NC Report on elections from various local polls

Designed and administered survey to identify subscriber perceptions of recycling Empirically analyzed respondents understanding of recycling and it’s barriers Compiled portfolio of campaign strategies based on survey results

Reported on various sporting events held within the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) Covered NC State-related athletic events such as the baseball team’s run for the NCAA championship in Omaha, NE Organized local sport updates

Reported on various topics including current events, municipal township meetings, special feature stories, and sporting events Sport coverage includes local high school team competitions including championship basketball and baseball games, and sports awards banquets Special assignments include feature articles on the annual local folk festival and SPCA Campaign Create advertisements using Adobe and InDesign software. Perform other newspaper-related tasks to facilitate meeting production deadlines

Was a Production Assistant on the set of Scotty McCreery’s music video for “See you Tonight” Repositioned cameras and retrieved devices for camera operators Checked microphones and attended to set Grouped extras and took them to set

Conducted research for the news department of the Independent Weekly. This included attending and taking notes on Senate and House of Representatives meetings, the Legislature meetings, and various other meetings. I also wrote a full-page springtime feature article and numerous smaller articles. I conducted vast amounts of research through the census borough and through other resources. I also went through meeting agendas picking out stories which may be of importance and presenting them to the editor for review.

I edited the Upper Perkiomen Anthology. The author, Larry Roeder, my boss at The Town and Country newspaper, asked me to do so for him.

Made and received calls based on the marketing of Cutco products

Shadowed staff writer, Melissa Dribben

Pulled patient charts for upcoming appointments; filed and alphabetized patient charts, greeted and checked in patients, paged doctors; copied and scanned office documents, cleaned and organized office