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ExperienceHeritage Media West Saline, Mich.Community engagement editor, online editor October

2012 to present Manage Heritage Medias website, which features news from Washt-enaw County, ensuring the home page is fresh and relevant, and ag-gregating local content from competitors websites. Post and interact as @HeritageNews on Twitter and assist local edi-tors with individual mastheads Facebook pages. Monitor Twitter forbreaking news in the area. Track website statistics on an hourly basis via Omniture and changethe website to feature more popular stories accordingly.

Create interactive, engaging online-only content, often featuring read-er contributions, with Google Maps, Storify, Flickr photo slideshows, etc. Manage a community blog roll, which features more than 65 localblogs.

Assist in reporting breaking news and enterprise story packages.

Editor December 2010 to October 2012 Plan, budget and manage all day-to-day editorial operations for theChelsea Standard and Dexter Leader, two weekly newspapers. Supervise a reporter and five freelancers, which includes assigningstories, editing copy and mentoring as needed.

Serve as page administrator of the newspapers Facebook and Twitteraccounts. Design and layout about 15 pages during weekly production cycle. Write engaging headlines, cutlines and decks. Develop enterprise stories with a team of reporters and work togetherto create story packages. Fill in on reporting and photography.

Hillsdale Daily News Hillsdale, Mich.

Staff writer, paginator December 2009 to July 2010 Wrote three stories daily concerning education, crime and gov-ernment. Responsible for the news and sports editors work twice weekly. Proofread pages and copy edited for two reporters. Designed, laid out three pages during evening shifts.

Contact734-752-2666

emcclain@gmail.com

@eamcclain

8195 Melvin Ave.

Westland, Mich.

SkillsOnline

Social media

HTML, CSS

Adobe Omniture

Content Management SystemsWordPress

NewsEdit Pro IQue

Town News

PaginationQuarkXpress

Adobe InDesign

Operating systemsWindows

Mac OS X

EducationStudied journalism

Wayne State UniversityDetroit

Clips and more:www.eamcclain.wordpress.com

Awards Led a team of reporters and wroteseveral stories covering a tornadothat hit Dexter, Mich. to receiverst place in Spot News for ClassA Weekly and Best MultimediaPresentation, competing against

all newspaper classes, in the 2012Michigan Press Assocation awards. Co-wrote the second half of a serieson preserving rural downtowns forsecond place for News EnterpriseReporting, Class A Weekly in 2012MPA. Designed and oversaw print layoutto win third place in Design and Gen-eral Excellence for Class A Weeklyin 2012 MPA awards.