Jaime Dunaway
1819 Newton St. NW Washington, D.C. 20010 | (417) 439-2641 | [email protected]| @JaimeDunaway
EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
M.A. in journalism
Graduation Date – May 2018
University of Missouri—Columbia, Missouri
B.A. in journalism and B.A. in international relations
Graduation Date – December 2015
University of Arkansas—Fayetteville, Arkansas
GPA 4.0
JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Editorial intern
January 2018 – May 2018
Slate Magazine—Washington, D.C.
Community outreach team
August 2017 – December 2017
Columbia Missourian—Columbia, Missouri
Multimedia intern
June 2017 - August 2017
Associated Press—Dallas, Texas
Assistant sports editor
August 2016 – December 2017
Columbia Missourian—Columbia, Missouri
Breaking news intern
January 2016 – May 2016
ArkansasOnline—Little Rock, Arkansas
General assignment intern
May 2015 – July 2015
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette—Springdale, Arkansas
SKILLS_________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1819 Newton St. NW Washington, D.C. 20010 | (417) 439-2641 | [email protected]| @JaimeDunaway
EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
M.A. in journalism
Graduation Date – May 2018
University of Missouri—Columbia, Missouri
B.A. in journalism and B.A. in international relations
Graduation Date – December 2015
University of Arkansas—Fayetteville, Arkansas
GPA 4.0
JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Editorial intern
January 2018 – May 2018
Slate Magazine—Washington, D.C.
- Contributed daily stories that provided analysis and commentary for Slate’s political, technology and culture blogs
- Helped cover special events, such as the Olympics and the March for Our Lives gun-control rally
- Wrote clickable headlines, social media posts and detailed SEO descriptions to drive traffic
Community outreach team
August 2017 – December 2017
Columbia Missourian—Columbia, Missouri
- Compiled weekly analytics reports to present at beat meetings
- Live tweeted and produced Snapchat stories from events
- Aggregated social media posts to produce user-generated content
- Moderated comments on the website and on social media
Multimedia intern
June 2017 - August 2017
Associated Press—Dallas, Texas
- Produced a multimedia project that included text, photos and video about funding cuts to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification
- Published two text and photo features while covering the Dallas Cowboys training camp
- Wrote six weekend stories and nearly 20 breaking-news briefs
- Produced a video about a protester injured in the 2016 sniper attack on Dallas law enforcement for the Broadcast News Center
- Created two video stories that were viewed by thousands of followers on the AP Central Twitter account
- Shot the lead photo used in a national project investigating how juvenile offenders are sentenced
Assistant sports editor
August 2016 – December 2017
Columbia Missourian—Columbia, Missouri
- Used news judgment to determine how local stories were featured in the paper based on online metrics
- Designed the sports homepage during games and updated scores on social media
- Edited stories quickly after games to meet tight print deadlines
- Wrote nightly high school and college sports notebooks that included call-in results and other briefs
Breaking news intern
January 2016 – May 2016
ArkansasOnline—Little Rock, Arkansas
- Produced multimedia web content from news events, such as court rulings and business fires
- Attended news conferences at the state Capitol and helped with 2016 elections coverage
- Built the website homepage two days a week by choosing the most newsworthy and interesting stories
- Managed social media operations on the ArkansasOnline Facebook and Twitter accounts, which have more than 80,000 combined followers
General assignment intern
May 2015 – July 2015
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette—Springdale, Arkansas
- Wrote daily features from community events, such as the Walmart shareholders meeting
- Contributed one story a week to the entertainment section
- Covered the cops beat on a rotating shift
- Wrote one enterprise piece about the development of the housing market in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas, that was the most-read story over the weekend, according to online data
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- Can proficiently use Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Premiere