Jennifer

Bissell
203-550-5220| bissell.jennifer@gmail.com 321 E 108th St. Apt. 4E | New York, NY 10029

SKILLS
AP style, beat reporting, spot news Investigative features, database reporting Attention to detail, editing, deadline driven Non-fluent Spanish, statistics, advanced math Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Instagram, Vine InDesign, Photoshop, Wordpress, HTML Digital SLR photography, layout design New York resident, strong business sources

JOB EXPERIENCE

Fairfield County Business Journal White Plains, N.Y. Weekly circulation: 75,000 | June 2012 Present
Reporter: Write at least five print stories a week and two online briefs everyday. With a small staff, I cover everything but I primarily focus on government and economic development. Since joining the journals staff I have been able to increase the publications emphasis on in-depth reporting and original data analysis for watchdog stories. I also shoot my own photos using a digital SLR camera.

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

St. Paul Pioneer Press St. Paul, Minn. Daily circulation: 193,549 | September 2011 December 2011
Computer-assisted reporting intern: Completed three front-page articles by using computer-assisted reporting to investigate city databases. For the projects I used the Freedom of Information Act to request the data and Excel and Access to analyze it. Then I thoroughly reported on each of the topics and created charts for publication.

Gannett, St. Cloud Times St. Cloud, Minn.

Daily circulation: 20,710 | May 2011 August 2011

Intern reporter: Wrote soft features and hard news for the metro desk. Eight of the articles I wrote made the front page, including in-depth pieces about the citys floundering housing market and lack of affordable housing for the growing new immigrant population.

The Minnesota Daily Minneapolis

Nations best daily student newspaper 2009, 2010 and 2011, according to the Society o f Professional Journalists

Daily circulation: 27,000 | September 2009 May 2011

Business reporter: Wrote about 80 articles on the business beat about new shops, trends, student entrepreneurs and close coverage of the Jimmy Johns union protests. Additionally I wrote a few spot news articles one involving a shooting and two database projects. Columnist: September 2009 May 2010. Produced a weekly, opinion-based column analyzing national politics.

Twin Cities Business Magazine Minneapolis

Monthly circulation: 30,617 | June 2010 August 2010

Web intern: Wrote 10 online stories each week about the Twin Cities business community, focusing on new products, campaigns, acquisitions and financial earnings. I also uploaded the magazines web content using CrownPeak and fact checked a business directory.

NEED Magazine Minneapolis

Out of circulation | March 2009 December 2009

Blog manager: Recruited and managed more than 20 blog writers and photojournalists, marketed online presence and organized web content using Wordpress and Blogger. Intern: March 2009 June 2009. Wrote about humanitarian organizations for blog, transcribed interviews, fact checked articles and maintained Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts.

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota Minneapolis

September 2008 December 2011

Bachelor of Arts in journalism and mass communication, minor degree in business management 3.64 GPA, cum laude honors For my honors thesis I launched a print publication targeting non-daily newsreaders called Gimme the Gist.

TRAVEL REFERENCES

After graduating a semester early, I spent five months backpacking in Europe, visiting 23 cities in 11 countries. My favorite experience was digging a ditch for a yoga studio in the mountains of southern Spain for two weeks. I built a website for the trip and kept a data mine of my expenses at thelongroute.com. Patrick Gallagher Fairfield County Business Journal | former editor | 914-671-0385 | patrick.gallagher2011@gmail.com MaryJo Webster St. Paul Pioneer Press | CAR editor | 651-228-5507 | mwebster@pioneerpress.com Gayle Golden University of Minnesota | journalism professor | 6 12-624-2136 | golde017@umn.edu