Chen Shen Email: chloeshen23@gmail.

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Mobile: +1-617-817-8682 / +86-134-7264-4101
Skype: chloeshenchen
Editorial Experience
Social Media Global Editor/Coordinator at Peoples Daily 2015/09 Present
o Curated posts for Peoples Daily on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and developed global strategies for audience development to
grow accounts following. Increased Twitter following from 1.6 million to 2.89 million, raised Facebook following from 5.7 million to 32
million, and set up the Instagram account to achieve over 675000 followers.
o Handpicked and oversaw the translation of at least 10+ news pieces from Chinese to English every day. Edited the story to make all
headlines social friendly, and helped craft optimal social language for each story.
o Pulled analytics and data from all social platforms to analyze overall performance of each story/ photo/ video.
o Conducted trainings for editors and reporters on social media best practices, training new hires on video/photo optimization.
o Launched social media accounts & curated content for Tsinghua University, Fuzhou, Xiangyang, Hisense Group and other Chinese
institutions, companies, and local governments on Facebook, Twitter.
o Oversaw the management of the official WeChat public account for the Chinese Consulate in New York, managed Chinese translation
needs, both from English to Chinese and Chinese to English, for the articles published on the website of the Chinese Consulate. Supervised
& guided translators, production personnel to help them work with the optimal terminology applicable to the Consulates needs.
o Prepared the information and advocacy materials such as website, brochures, booklets & reports for all the official social media accounts.
Communications Intern at United Nations Global Pulse 2015/07-2016/04
o Researched, wrote, edited & produced blogs, articles, brochures & other web/print content for Pulse Lab New York.
o Worked with the designers, the communications team and the data & analysis team in New York, Jakarta and Kampala to condense research
findings into accessible articles, blog posts, and presentation materials.
o Provided event planning and community outreach support for special projects during the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly.
o Shot, produced & edited three videos for UN Global Pulse that were all displayed during the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly.
Videographer and Technology Intern Reporter at Boston Business Journal 2014/05 2014/12
o Shot, produced & edited videos for technology desk on Boston technology & startup, and for banking/finance/real estate stories.
o Worked with research editor on annual/monthly/weekly Books of List compilation and financial data processing.
Editorial Intern at Bloomberg Businessweek China in Beijing 2012/07-2012/09
o Pitched, interviewed and wrote stories in Chinese for the real estate sector of the magazine.
o Translated documents and reports on real estate from English to Chinese. Transcribed interviews and translated from English to Chinese.
Intern Reporter on the Metro Desk at China Daily in Shanghai and Hong Kong 2011/09 2012/03
o Assigned to do different interviews and to cover different press conference every day. Wrote stories for the metro page.
o Translated 2-3 Chinese news to 100 word-less briefs every day in English for publication.
Translation Experience
Editorial/Translation Intern at FTChinese.com in Shanghai 2013/05 2013/09
o Pitched, translated 2-3 English articles daily from Financial Times & How to Spend It to Chinese and published them on FTChinese.com
Blogger, Editor & Translator at DJChina.org 2014/07-2015/09
o Translated and copy-edited a series of articles and tutorials on Data Journalism and Big Data.
Translator/Interpreter at Shanghai International Arts Festival Committee 2011/08-2011/10
Translation Intern at the United Nations Pavilion in Shanghai World Expo 2010/01-2010/08
Interpreter/ Event planning Intern at Shanghai International Film 2013/06
Child Education Experience
Science/English Teacher at central elementary school in Konka, Tibet 2012/05-2012/07
o Taught third grade to fifth grade Tibetan students English classes and sometimes also taught science classes.
Proficiencies
o English-Chinese translation, interpretation, polishing, social media content creation and curation
o Editorial writing and editing, digital production of videos and photographs
o Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Open Source CMS (WordPress, Drupal)
o Facebook/ Insights, Twitter/ Analytics, Periscope, Instagram, YouTube, HTML5
o Native Chinese speaker who is fluent in Mandarin and English writing and speaking
Education
Master of Science (MS), Business & Economics Journalism Boston University 2013-2015
o Worked as a reporter for Boston University News Service for two years. Pitched, wrote and edited stories in various topics.
o Worked as a research assistant and later a teaching assistant. Helped professor on his book published about Armenian Genocide history.
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Translation & Interpretation Shanghai International Studies University 2009-2013
o Graduated with honor and top scholarship, top 2% of the class.
o Vice President of the Student Union, in charge of the IT support as well as the volunteer recruitment.
Minor, Journalism Fudan University 2010-2012
o Graduated with honor and first degree scholarship, top of the class.