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Suzanne Yada PDF Resume – Last updated 5-31-10

(This text resume last updated June 1, 2010)

Objective

To make your publication rock.

Work experience

Online editor
Jan. 2010 to May 2010
Spartan Daily, San Jose, Calif.
Directed CMS changeover and website redesign for the daily newspaper at San Jose State. Managed Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader feeds; aided in mobile application development; assigned and edited news blog posts; taught others InDesign, Flash Catalyst, Twitter and RSS; moderated online community; and hunted for story leads online.

Social media strategist/Steering committee member
Oct. 2008 to present
San Francisco Public Press, San Francisco, Calif.
Serving on marketing, steering and community engagement committees for the nonprofit news startup. Achievements: Created strategy to incorporate social media in the newsroom, assisted with developing business model, trained volunteers on social media tools, led blogging project with aggregated news and helped with web and print design.

Web producer
June 2009 to present
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, San Jose, Calif.
Uploading the weekly business newspaper content to its website, writing feature profiles on local startup businesses, aggregating articles on specific topics, creating online graphics and writing briefs and calendar items.

Reporter
Aug. 2009 to Dec. 2009
Spartan Daily, San Jose, Calif.
Wrote 39 stories for all sections of the paper, including news, sports, opinion, arts and features. Main beat: covering the California budget crisis and its impact on the public education system. Also covered general assignments, shot video and created an interactive Flash map of artwork in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. Clips can be found here.

Copy editor
Jan. 2009 to Sept. 2009
SHiFT Magazine, San Jose, Calif.
Copy edited and designed spreads for a startup magazine sent quarterly to business leaders in the Silicon Valley who have an interest in social responsibility.

Special section editor
April 2008 to Jan. 2009
Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, Calif.
Built a supplemental targeted publication for Visalia’s daily paper on downtown areas in Tulare County. Wrote articles, designed section and coordinated photos for the quarterly tab insert.

Radio host/marketing coordinator
Oct. 2007 to April 2008
KFSC-LP 94.1 FM, Visalia, Calif.
Hosted, produced, edited and scripted weekly radio show about the U.K. culture. Recorded interviews via Skype and edited in Adobe Audition. Set up social networking website and helped nonprofit radio station promote itself, raise funds and organize events.

Copy editor
May 2004 to Dec. 2007
Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, Calif.
Selected wire stories, copy edited, wrote headlines, designed inside pages and section fronts, uploaded articles to the website, helped moderate online comments, wrote a dining column with a blog and produced weekly entertainment videocasts for three months.
* I took 8 months off in 2005 to work abroad in Nottingham, England.

Editor-in-chief
April 2004 to Jan. 2005
Fusion Multimedia, Visalia, Calif.
Headed local youth magazine published every two months. Directed content and design, edited and proofed submissions, coordinated writers and photographers, and met with about 20 at-risk youth to brainstorm story ideas.

Editor-in-chief
Aug. 2003 to May 2004
College of the Sequoias, Visalia, Calif.
Led newsroom for College of the Sequoias weekly newspaper. Managed staff, developed workflow, designed front page and news sections, assigned and edited news stories.

Proofreader/Pre-press operator
June 1999 to Aug. 2002
Premier Color Graphics, Visalia, Calif.
Proofread graphic designers’ work to grammar and customer specifications; set up graphics files for press, including catching pre-flight errors, trapping, color separations and plate burning.

Education

San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif.
January 2008 to May 2010
B.S. in journalism (magazine), minor in business
Kappa Tau Alpha journalism honor society

College of the Sequoias, Visalia, Calif.
Aug. 2002 to May 2004
A.A. in journalism

Skills

AP style • InDesign • InCopy • QuarkXpress • Illustrator • Photoshop • Flash Catalyst • Audition • Audacity • FinalCut Pro • Premiere • Saxotech/Publicus • NewsEditPro • HTML • RSS • Social media

Honors

• Named one of 20 “Journalists to Follow,” Quill Magazine, Society of Professional Journalists, May 2010 issue
• Panelist and workshop facilitator on social media and entrepreneurial journalism, Alaska Press Club, May 6-9, 2010
• California College Media Association award, 3rd place multimedia, “The Hidden Public Art,” awarded Apr. 17, 2010
• Presenter, “6 in 60,” Online News Association conference, Oct. 1-3, 2009
• Panelist, “Reinventing Journalism and Yourself: One Tweet, One Friend at a Time,” AEJMC, Boston, Mass., Aug. 4-8, 2009
• “10 Journalists you should follow on Twitter,” Mark S. Luckie on 10,000 Words, Aug. 2008
• Five Journalism Association of Community College Awards, 2003-2004
• Herb Caen Scholarship Award, San Francisco Bay Area, 2009
• Ruth M. Byers Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2009
• Clarence F. and Lyle V. Burmahln Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2010
• Sylvia K. Johns Scholarship, College of the Sequoias, 2004