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Patrick J. Carr Twitter: @patrickcarr_ Website: patrickjcarr.wordpress.com Mobile: (530) 859-1459 email: [email protected] SKILLS AND STRENGTHS • Motivated reporter with strong communication and organizational skills • Well-rounded sports journalist with excellent digital, print and multimedia storytelling abilities • Strong social media and SEO command and that’s resulted in higher engagement on Twitter and Facebook EXPERIENCE San Diego Union-Tribune Sports Intern; San Diego, CA January 2015-May 2015 • Wrote feature stories on various sports at largest daily newspaper (250,000 circulation) in San Diego County • Covered San Diego Padres’ Opening Day in 2015 The Daily Aztec Sports Editor, Senior Staff Writer, Staff Writer; San Diego, CA September 2013-Present • Manage 15-person sports staff and edit all sports content for grammar, spelling and AP Style errors • Implement SEO-friendly practices on web stories, which have produced some of The Daily Aztec’s highest- viewed stories since August • Cover San Diego State football and men’s basketball while performing editor duties • Examined data and found San Diego State’s student section “The Show” didn’t effect opponents’ free throws • Co-anchored weekly sports video segment, which was consistently the highest viewed video of the semester The Lance Managing Editor and Chief Sportswriter; Redding, CA September 2012-May 2013 • Played key role in rebuilding community college newspaper after it was dropped due to budget cuts • Covered eight different sports including Shasta College softball’s state playoff run in 2013 SB Nation, MountainWestConnection Contributing Writer; San Diego, CA August 2014-January 2015 • Explored the San Diego State mascot debate, which included a poll that had more than 250 responses making it the highest voted poll on the website that week • Wrote blog-style sports articles including breaking news and game previews about San Diego State sports KPBS Newsroom & Production Assistant; San Diego, CA January 2015-Present • Performed website quality control including posting reporter audio and video clips • Edits video and operates production equipment such as cameras and teleprompter for evening newscast KRCR News Channel 7 (ABC) Newsroom Intern; Redding, CA June 2014-August 2014 • Researched stories for evening newscasts and wrote four broadcast stories per week on tight deadline • Produced one-minute afternoon news update twice a week that aired on sister station KAEF in Eureka EDUCATION San Diego State University, B.A., Journalism Expected graduation: December 2015
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Patrick J. CarrTwitter: @patrickcarr_ Website: patrickjcarr.wordpress.comMobile: (530) 859-1459 email: [email protected]
SKILLS AND STRENGTHS• Motivated reporter with strong communication and organizational skills• Well-rounded sports journalist with excellent digital, print and multimedia storytelling abilities• Strong social media and SEO command and that’s resulted in higher engagement on Twitter and Facebook
EXPERIENCESan Diego Union-TribuneSports Intern; San Diego, CA January 2015-May 2015• Wrote feature stories on various sports at largest daily newspaper (250,000 circulation) in San Diego County• Covered San Diego Padres’ Opening Day in 2015
The Daily Aztec Sports Editor, Senior Staff Writer, Staff Writer; San Diego, CA September 2013-Present• Manage 15-person sports staff and edit all sports content for grammar, spelling and AP Style errors• Implement SEO-friendly practices on web stories, which have produced some of The Daily Aztec’s highest-
viewed stories since August• Cover San Diego State football and men’s basketball while performing editor duties• Examined data and found San Diego State’s student section “The Show” didn’t effect opponents’ free throws• Co-anchored weekly sports video segment, which was consistently the highest viewed video of the semester
The Lance Managing Editor and Chief Sportswriter; Redding, CA September 2012-May 2013• Played key role in rebuilding community college newspaper after it was dropped due to budget cuts• Covered eight different sports including Shasta College softball’s state playoff run in 2013
SB Nation, MountainWestConnectionContributing Writer; San Diego, CA August 2014-January 2015• Explored the San Diego State mascot debate, which included a poll that had more than 250 responses
making it the highest voted poll on the website that week• Wrote blog-style sports articles including breaking news and game previews about San Diego State sports
KPBSNewsroom & Production Assistant; San Diego, CA January 2015-Present• Performed website quality control including posting reporter audio and video clips• Edits video and operates production equipment such as cameras and teleprompter for evening newscast
KRCR News Channel 7 (ABC) Newsroom Intern; Redding, CA June 2014-August 2014• Researched stories for evening newscasts and wrote four broadcast stories per week on tight deadline• Produced one-minute afternoon news update twice a week that aired on sister station KAEF in Eureka
EDUCATIONSan Diego State University, B.A., Journalism Expected graduation: December 2015
