Jonathan M.

Alexander
j.alexander1127@yahoo.com; 704-975-6324

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE:
News & Observer, Raleigh. NC; Aug. 2013 Present; Freelance Writer
Generate story ideas for feature stories for sports section, write feature stories and fill in for sports reporters juggling multiple stories.
Covered Duke spring football game, covered N.C. Central mens basketball teams path to their first ever trip to Big Dance, covered UNC
Chapel Hill Spring football game, covered UNC LAX in NCAA tournament, first of local reporters to break the news of the hiring of the
N.C. Central football coach, currently covering the aftermath of the firing of the previous N.C. Central football coach Henry Frazier.

The Durham News and Chapel Hill News (community papers for News & Observer); Aug. 2013 Present; Staff Writer
Beat reporter covering Durham Public Schools and Chapel Hill-Carborro City Schools (local area school systems).
First to break the news of resignation of Durham Public Schools superintendent, uncovered overspending in district-issued credit card.
Broke news that the Orange County school board forced their superintendent to resign.

Duke Office of News and Communications, Durham, NC; May 2013 July 2013; Intern/ staff writer
Wrote stories, generated story ideas on Dukes campus, shot and edited video, took photos, audio slideshows.

N.C. Central University Campus Echo student newspaper, Durham, NC; Nov. 2010-May 2013; Assistant editor-in-chief/sports editor
Assistant editor-in-chief and sports editor from August 2012- May 2013. Managed staff of 12 reporters, edited stories, generated story
ideas, took photos, wrote sports stories, wrote campus stories, shot and edited video, posted online content.
Sports editor from August 2011-May 2012, managed 3 reporters, generated story ideas, wrote sports stories, edited stories, took photos.
Staff writer from November 2010-May 2011. Wrote general assignment and sports stories.

Petoskey News-Review, Petoskey, MI; June 2012- Aug. 2012; Intern/ general assignment reporter
Wrote news and sports stories for daily newspaper, shot and edited video and audio slide shows and generated story ideas.
Helped kick start the papers multimedia. Brainstormed ideas of how to improve the papers social media and multimedia projects.

MULTIMEDIA/PRODUCTION SKILLS
QuarkXpress 6.5 Desktop Publishing; College Publisher 5 Content Management System; iMovie Video Editing; Adobe Premiere
Video Editing; Adobe InDesign Page Design; Adobe Photoshop, News Gate 3; Cameras: Canon T3i, 7D; Nikon d5100 video, stills.

JOURNALISM MEMBERSHIPS
National Association of Black Journalists, February 2012-present
Started as student member. Attended 2013 national conference in Fla. Participated in student project designing conference newspaper.

AWARDS
2014 Historically Black College University National Newspaper Conference Awards
First Place Best Sports Coverage
Second Place Best News Story He can do it, can she do it too?
Third Place Best Sports Feature Story Cant keep King down
2012 Historically Black College University National News Media Conference:
Third Place Best Sports Feature Story Where have all the brothers gone?
2011 Historically Black College University National News Media Conference:
Second Place Best Sports News Story Eagles Scratch Seattle

EDUCATION
N.C. Central University (Durham, NC): BA in Mass Communication - May 11, 2013
Freedom Forum Diversity Institute (Nashville, TN): Multimedia Scholars program - May 2012.
Learned how to shoot and edit video and how to create an audio slideshow. Used programs like Photoshop, and Final Cut Express.
REFERENCES
Mark Schultz - Editor of The Durham News and Chapel Hill News; 919-932-2003, mschultz@newsobserver.com
Steve Ruinsky Sports editor of the News & Observer (Raleigh, NC); 919-829-4530, sruinsky@newsobserver.com
John McCann Sports reporter for the Herald Sun (Durham, NC); 919-824-4375, jmccann@heraldsun.com

SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter: @jonmalexander1 or https://www.twitter.com/jonmalexander1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/jon.my.alexander
Blog: jonmalexander.wordpress.com