Résumé

Associate producer, The Seattle Times — June 2011 – Present
Blogger, 10,000 Words — Oct. 2010 – Present
Product Designer, Publish2 — Dec. 2009 – Jan. 2011
Designer, PressThink — Sept. 2010 – Oct. 2010
Designer, Spot.Us — Oct. 2009 – Present
Creative Director, CoPress — May 2009 – February 2010
Graphic Designer, Cal Poly Housing — October 2008 – December 2009
Online Editor, Mustang Daily — June 2008 – December 2009
Intern, Center for Innovation in College Media — December 2008 – May 2009
Webmaster/reporter, Mayberry Broadcasting Co. — June 2007 – December 2008
Reporter, Southern Sierra Messenger — May 2006 – August 2007
Student, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo — June 2007 – December 2009

Blogger – 10,000 Words / MediaBistro

October 2010 – Present
Writes blog posts about trends, news, and tips in online multimedia storytelling, specifically in how it relates to the design process.

Sample clips: Applying multimedia skills to non multimedia jobs, 5 ways journalists can use QR codes, Four major sins of news design

Designer – PressThink

September 2010 – October 2010
As a freelancer, media critic Jay Rosen hired me to redesign his widely-read and respected journalism blog.

Product designer – Publish2

December 2009 – January 2011
Envisioning and executing the future of news. Lead design initiatives for the journalism start-up that builds collaborative web tools for newspapers. Responsibilities include creating user interface concepts for web app, writing specs for new functionality, completing QA testing for new functionality, designing in-house marketing materials, writing blog posts, doing market research.

Designer – Spot.Us

October 2009 – Present
Worked with journalism revolutionary David Cohn to continually redesign Spot.us, an experimental community-funded journalism site. First redesign in Oct. 2009, second redesign in Jan. 2010. Responsibilities include: product planning, mockups, CSS implementation.

Creative director – CoPress

Privately Held; Newspapers industry
May 2009 – January 2010 ( 9 months)

The design associate is the go-to person for all things design, multimedia, and interactive at CoPress. This person plays a central role in design and multimedia education efforts including, but not limited to, mentoring clients on the basics of website design, preparing educational videos on the importance of web platforms, and leading webinars on different elements of design.

Graphic designer – Cal Poly State University University Housing

Educational Institution; Higher Education industry
October 2008 – December 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Assists professional and graduate student staff to develop online resources and print materials to support educational initiatives for on campus residents.
• Produce publications, posters, flash presentations and programming resources in print and web formats.
• Design promotions and educational resources for a variety of Department based activities such as alcohol and drug free social alternatives, staff recruitment and education presentations.

Online/mulitmedia editor, reporter – Mustang Daily

Newspapers industry
June 2007 – December 2009 (2 years 7 months)

Edit online content, create still graphics for print and interactive graphics for the Web, create multimedia content for the Web, layout pages of sports section

Intern -Center for Innovation in College Media

Online Media industry
January 2009 – May 2009 ( 5 months)

As the CICM intern, I blogged weekly about trends in college media and wrote tutorials for student journalists to take back to their newsrooms.

Webmaster – Mayberry Broadcasting Co.

Broadcast Media industry
June 2007 – April 2009 (1 year 11 months)

Former intern reporter for KTIP AM 1450 news radio station. Responsibilities included reporting mostly government, crime and education in the southern part of central San Joaquin Valley Calif.

After moving to attend college, currently only hold the post of Webmaster for www.ktip.com.

Reporter – Southern Sierra Messenger Newspapers

Newspapers industry
May 2006 – August 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Covered local government, education, and art beats for a weekly newspaper in Sierra-Nevada foothills

Education

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Bachelor of Science Journalism

2007 – 2009

Activities and Societies: Mustang Daily, Technical Association of Graphic Arts, University Housing, College Based Fees Committee

Yes, I attained my bachelor’s degree in two years. I’m an overachiever. Proud of it, suckas.

1 Comment

At 2012.01.29 21:46, Can a journalist be a capitalist? | Lauren Rabaino said:

[...] (perhaps naively) that I still have hope that I can do it at a newspaper. Places like Spot.us (disclosure: I worked with them) or places like, dare I say it, Patch, are good examples of thinking outside the box outside of a [...]

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