AUDREY SNYDER
Email: [email protected] Twitter: @audsnyder4 YouTube: TDCfootball EXPERIENCE USA TODAY Freelance journalist November 2011 - July 2012 •Supplied breaking news coverage during the Penn State scandal and its aftermath •Wrote football game stories, courts coverage, sidebars, student reaction, town hall stories and profiles •Used Twitter, photos and videos to supplement coverage •Produced enterprise stories for several of the company’s magazines and special editions THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Penn State athletics reporter March 2011- May 2012 •Served as the newspaper’s primary football beat reporter •Provided around-the-clock coverage during the firing of Joe Paterno as well as the hiring of his successor •Worked under tight deadlines to file breaking news stories, game stories, sidebars, notebooks and features •Used Twitter, videos, chats and live blogging to supplement game coverage •Produced at least six stories per week for print, as well as web updates UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Team USA beat writer October 2011 - Aug. 2012 •Traveled to London to provide on-site web coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games •Wrote event previews, feature stories and game coverage for the USA Daily newsletter that was distributed to more than 2 million readers •Worked with a team of reporters to provide daily sport-specific recaps as well as updated medal counts and web content MLB.COM Milwaukee Brewers associate reporter May 2011 - Aug. 2011 • Associate beat reporter for the Brewers and covered the opposing teams on my own when needed •Produced daily game stories, sidebars, notebooks, features, injury updates, previews and news stories •Wrote under strict deadlines, completed numerous stories per day and covered the MLB Draft • Consistently pitched story ideas, took initiative with interviews and recorded Flip videos THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stringer November 2011- July 2012 •Assisted in coverage of Penn State men’s and women’s basketball •Contributed with instant analysis, web stories and feature stories during the Jerry Sandusky hearing •Assisted in coverage of the Sandusky sexual abuse trial and provided updates from inside the court room
NCAA Final Four correspondent March 2012 - April 2012 •Wrote several daily stories about the tournament that were displayed on the NCAA’s homepage •Pitched unique story ideas and executed a series of sights and sounds videos and blog posts •Produced an audio slide show and several photo galleries to package with my stories and blogs ACHIEVEMENTS and AWARDS •2012 Ralph Flamminio Memorial Scholarship recipient as top collegiate journalist in Pennsylvania •Spent two weeks in South Africa reporting on racial, class and gender issues in athletics for McClatchy News Services •Served as copy/wire editor, features writer and football beat reporter during four-year tenure with Penn State’s student-run newspaper, The Daily Collegian •Interned with The Reading Eagle as a Penn State football correspondent. Helped launched the company’s blog, conducted in-game chats, wrote notebooks, features, news stories and shot and edited videos •Summer News and Features intern with The Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa. •Multimedia work from my YouTube account has more than 360,000 views and was picked up multiple times by ESPN, Good Morning America and CBS •Numerous Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards for Sports News and Features •Multiple Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Collegiate Keystone Press Awards for stories ranging from Public Service to Sports •Second Place, Professional Keystone Press Award for coverage of Penn State’s sexual abuse scandal •Damon M. Chappie Memorial Award for collegiate Investigative Reporting •Elected as a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha journalism and mass communications National Honor Society •Certificate in Sports Journalism from Penn State’s John Curley Center
EDUCATION Pennsylvania State University Degrees: Print Journalism (BA) & Secondary Education English/Communication (BS) Graduation: May 2012 GPA: 3.71 |