Nicole Norfleet

norfleet2009@gmail.com
http://www.nicolenorfleet.info
Permanent Address: Temporary Address:
1305 Lincoln Drive 8600 Falls of Neuse Road
Voorhees, NJ 08043 Raleigh, NC 27615
(856) 651-0658 (856) 278-3236

EDUCATION: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.A. in Journalism; News-Editorial; Graduated December 2009

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE: Print and/or online news reporting preferably related to business

EXPERIENCE:
Honors: Chips Quinn Scholars; Business Reporting Certificate Program; first place in regional
Society of Professional Journalists competition for Feature Writing/Online In-Depth Reporting;
placed in Feature Writing competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Raleigh, NC

Reporting Intern Present
• Writing breaking news and feature stories about the state of North Carolina
THE WASHINGTON POST, Washington, DC
Metro Reporting Intern Spring 2010
• Reported on the development and transportation team of the Metro desk and wrote business
stories for Capital Business, The Post’s new business weekly
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, St. Petersburg, FL
Business Reporting Intern Summer 2009
• Covered business in the Tampa Bay area including consumer stories about personal
bankruptcy and car buying and breaking news about security breach and federal raid
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, Philadelphia, PA
City Reporting Intern Summer 2008
• Interned as a general assignment reporter covering city stories relating to high gasoline
prices, crimes, court hearings and other events at paper with circulation of about 114,000
THE DAILY TAR HEEL, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Managing Editor for Online; Online Editor; Reporter Fall 2005 – Spring 2009
• Coordinated the 20,000-circulation paper’s print and online publishing; worked as editor
responsible for Web design, maintenance, online moderation; covered campus news
ROY W. HOWARD NATIONAL COLLEGIATE REPORTING COMPETITION
Winner Summer 2008
• Awarded a 13-day journalism study trip to Japan and South Korea to visit media outlets
BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE, New York, NY
Editorial Intern Summer 2007
• Contributed to articles by reporting and conducting research for national publication
PORTFOLIO.COM, New York, NY
Guest Blogger Summer 2007 – Fall 2007
• Frequently blogged for technology blog on business magazine’s Web site
IMPULSE MAGAZINE, Cherry Hill, NJ
Intern Summer 2006
• Freelanced, assisted in maintenance of Web site and MySpace and performed office duties

SKILLS: InDesign, InCopy, Final Cut Pro, Soundslides, Photoshop, Audacity, some HTML, some Flash

REFERENCES:
• Michael Bolden – editor of the transportation/development team at The Washington Post;
boldenm@washpost.com; (202) 334-6189
• Becky Bowers – deputy business editor at the St. Petersburg Times;
bbowers@sptimes.com; (727) 893-8859
• Barbara Laker – assistant city editor (now reporter) at the Philadelphia Daily News;
 lakerb@phillynews.com; (215) 854-5159
• Kevin Schwartz – director/general manager at The Daily Tar Heel;
kschwartz@unc.edu; (919) 962-0520