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Online Editor and Producer

Nicole Mooradian

Nicole Mooradian
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  • Los Angeles,  CA United States

Professional Status
Freelancer

Job/Career Available

Emmy-Winning Web News Editor and Online Producer

Nicole is a two-time Emmy Award-winning web editor and self-proclaimed "news junkie" with a passion for writing, editing and all things online.

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Professional Experience

Part-time employee

Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, CA - United States(Part-time - Since October 2010)

  • Create and post Amazon.com affiliate links
  • Track sales data from online affiliate partnerships, including Travelzoo, Amazon, Wine Club
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Researcher

Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, CA - United States(Temporary Work - Since August 2010)

  • Verified teachers' identities for value-added ratings database
  • Geocoded thousands of locations for Crime L.A. project (part of Mapping L.A. project)
  • Wrote generic copy and looked up police department contact information for large cities for Crime L.A. project
  • Researched city contracts
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Freelancer

self-employed(Since April 2010)

  • Freelance website design and development.
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KPHO.com Web News Editor

Internet Broadcasting - Phoenix(June 2008 - April 2010)

  • Wrote articles based on reporters' notes and information received from the assignment desk on a daily basis
  • Kept website on top of breaking news
  • Prepared and uploaded video for website
  • Wrote articles based on reporters' scripts
  • Copy edited reporter-posted stories
  • Designed interactive features
  • Increased online presence with new Twitter feeds, headlines widget e-mail signature
  • Assisted in site graphics conversion and redesign
  • Prepared sidebar material (e.g. slideshows, uncut video, maps) for stories
  • Answered viewer e-mail and telephone calls
  • Trained and supervised web interns
  • Trained majority of newsroom staff on ibPublish CMS.
  • Beta-tested early and later versions of ibPublish
  • Worked with producers and reporters to drive content from broadcast to Web and vice-versa
  • Updated social media services like Twitter and Facebook
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Press-Telegram Intern

MediaNews Group(July 2007 - August 2007)

  • - Reported and wrote stories for the Metro desk; two appeared on A1
    - Helped produce (wrote, edited and/or taped) numerous online videos for presstelegram.com and other MediaNews Group websites
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NBC10.com Intern

Internet Broadcasting / NBC Universal(June 2007 - July 2007)

  • Maintained editorial content of the website by converting AP broadcast scripts into print stories and writing copy
  • Created slideshows that appeared across entire network of NBC O&O TV station websites
  • Wrote quizzes
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Summer employee

West Semitic Research Project(January 2006 - January 2007)

  • - Used Adobe Photoshop to color-correct high-resolution photographs of ancient artifacts
    - Organized photographic negatives of archaelogical finds
    - Helped with Maarav (journal) mailing
    - Updated and maintained Inscriptifact.com
    - Updated and maintained official West Semitic Research Project website
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Education

BA

Washington and Lee University (September 2004 - September 2004)
  • Journalism and Mass Communications, Sociology and Anthropology
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