EDUCATION
BA, Social Media Design Management | Northern Michigan University | Expected Graduation — December 2024
Northern Michigan University's Deans List | Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
DIGITAL NEWS ANCHOR, SUB EVENING NEWS ANCHOR
WLUC TV6 - Gray Communications
February 2023 - Present
Molly lead the TV6 Digital Desk and grew the station’s digital audience in the evening on the TV6 website, social media and streaming sources through:
TV6's "First Look" 5 p.m. evening newscast with 'First Look at the Web' segments, LIVE from TV6's Over the Top (OTT) Production Desk.
Reporting breaking news events, national stories and trending online content, both national and local, using video, live cameras, graphics and social media/web content.
Solo producing, presenting, and technically directing daily content from TV6's state-of-the-art OTT streaming desk, using video, live cameras, graphics and social media/web content.
The TV6 Digital Desk Live Stream was LIVE on both YouTube and Facebook. While running the stream, Molly monitored both comment sections and responded to questions/comments.
Producing and anchoring half hour news casts (Sunday at 6 & 11 p.m. EST, Weekdays at 10 p.m./11p.m. EST) on an as needed basis.
Checking packages and VOSOTS, choosing national content to compliment local stories, timing newscasts, producing graphics, choosing camera shots and writing on-air scripts/creating graphics for breaking news stories.
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COLLEGIATE WORK EXPERIENCE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The North Wind - NMU's Independent Student Newspaper
January 2024 - Present
Part-time, remote on-campus job during the Fall and Winter semesters, managing the North Wind’s day-to-day operations by:
Setting the tone of paper, Addressing complaints by sources and readers
Hiring, disciplining and firing editorial staff, Serving as a recruiter for editorial positions, Setting long-term goals for news, opinion, features and sports sections, Responsible for the direction of editor desks
Writing a minimum of one story/editorial per week, including a staff column in regular rotation
Led weekly budget and critique meetings, Meeting monthly with the North Wind Board of Directors, creating and presenting an editorial update
Working with business staff to stay within budget constraints
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
The North Wind - NMU's Independent Student Newspaper
January 2022 - 2024
Part-time, remote on-campus job during the Fall and Winter semesters, facilitating the North Wind’s online presence by:
Publishing stories to the North Wind Website and posting content to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, Final copyediting
Creating and distributing weekly newsletters (one on Canva for the student/faculty body, one with MailChimp for the U.P. community)
Writing occasional news pieces, including staff columns in rotation
Monitoring site analytics and boosted traffic through SEO modifications and completing an redesign overhaul of the NW website (Summer 2023)
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GENERAL EXPERTISE
OTT Production, JVC Software
Reading the news, News script writing News Producing, News Directing (both on-air and streaming/web)
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro; Edius
Writing, Editing, Proofreading, AP Style, Conducting interviews
Website Building with WordPress (SNO), Google Sites
Meta Business Suite (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), X, TikTok
German (Second Language) — ●●●○○
This resume was last updated on 9/17/2024.