Journalism work
- 2013-2015: Engagement producer and local network editor at Indy Star Media, Gannett
- Engage an audience on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and other social media platforms as a personality for IndyStar.com;
- Compile the Cheat Sheet utility column each morning that summarizes the top news links for busy readers;
- Find and aggregate photos, videos and trends on social media as a blogger for IndyStar.com;
- Advocate for The Star's journalism and promote the value of a digital subscription.
- On Twitter, write 4-5 posts per hour to the main @indystar brand account, as well as follow up with tweeted questions and complaints;
- On Facebook, write 1-2 posts per hour to generate audience engagement and promote the Star's articles, photos and videos;
- Help identify trends using analytics and observation to increase clickthrough and build followers;
- Advise the newsroom on best practices for social media, such as the use of current hashtags, effective strategies for promotion of their work and how to sharpen their voices online.
- Cheat Sheet site: http://www.indystar.com/cheatsheet;
- MuckRack portfolio: http://muckrack.com/heycori/portfolio;
- 1998-2013: Page designer and CCI superuser at the Indianapolis Star Media Group, Gannett
- Produce a "magazine"-style sophistication on covers and key inside pages;
- Design clean, easily read pages even with the most challenging newshole;
- Translate the editors' perspectives and judgment into the print layout;
- Manage time to enable production of a large volume of work.
- Keep the user interface simple and stable to enable users to produce a large volume of work quickly;
- Stay on top of needed tweaks and changes;
- Help troubleshoot user issues and production problems;
- Train computer system users who are new and also who would benefit from additional knowledge;
- Design improved ways to get work done.
- 2008: Helped install a new version of our CCI NewsDesk content management system
- 1997: Copy editor at The Indianapolis Star (following a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy editing internship here in 1995)
- 1996: Correspondent at The Peoria Journal-Star (following a 1994 internship)
- 1992-1995: Opinions editor, columnist, copy editor, reporter for The Daily Illini at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A. in Journalism, News-Editorial sequence)
Software + scripting: Familiarity with ...
- Adobe Photoshop (and some Illustrator), Dreamweaver, Fireworks, InDesign
- Quark XPress
- CCI newspaper content management and production system
- Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook
- Unix, Java, Python
- HTML/XTML/XML/CSS
- Some JavaScript, J Query
- GIS: Maptitude, ArcMap, TransCAD, Quantum GIS, GRASS
- Engage an audience on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and other social media platforms as a personality for IndyStar.com;
- Compile the Cheat Sheet utility column each morning that summarizes the top news links for busy readers;
- Find and aggregate photos, videos and trends on social media as a blogger for IndyStar.com;
- Advocate for The Star's journalism and promote the value of a digital subscription.
- On Twitter, write 4-5 posts per hour to the main @indystar brand account, as well as follow up with tweeted questions and complaints;
- On Facebook, write 1-2 posts per hour to generate audience engagement and promote the Star's articles, photos and videos;
- Help identify trends using analytics and observation to increase clickthrough and build followers;
- Advise the newsroom on best practices for social media, such as the use of current hashtags, effective strategies for promotion of their work and how to sharpen their voices online.
- Cheat Sheet site: http://www.indystar.com/cheatsheet;
- MuckRack portfolio: http://muckrack.com/heycori/portfolio;
- Produce a "magazine"-style sophistication on covers and key inside pages;
- Design clean, easily read pages even with the most challenging newshole;
- Translate the editors' perspectives and judgment into the print layout;
- Manage time to enable production of a large volume of work.
- Keep the user interface simple and stable to enable users to produce a large volume of work quickly;
- Stay on top of needed tweaks and changes;
- Help troubleshoot user issues and production problems;
- Train computer system users who are new and also who would benefit from additional knowledge;
- Design improved ways to get work done.
- 2008: Helped install a new version of our CCI NewsDesk content management system


