Professional
Experience

• Traveled to Jefferson City on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to speak with lawmakers over a recent legislative bill that would allow educators to conceal and carry in classroom.
• Created a network source book for staff writers to find interviews in a quick and efficient manner.
• Established a beat for politics, budgets and government stories.
• Played a major part in tearing down the universities budget to discover a surplus at which time they stated they were going through a financial crisis.
• Designed pages with Adobe InDesign for the news desk.

Freelance Reporter – Kearney Courier, Smithville Herald and Gladstone Dispatch Kearney, MO, Smithville, MO and Gladstone, MO

• Wrote several news stories that dealt with the Kearney City Council and School Board. Discovered plans for a new tutoring system for secondary education and investigated community center plans for the city.
• Worked with the Editor-in-Chief of each paper to find interesting stories that would provide readership.
• Reported on Ground Breakings and worked on stories dealing with the Kearney School District earning high awards for test scores during a time of economic decline towards budgets.

• Wrote editorials dealing with issues that faced students on a daily basis from student fees and excess funding for programs that weren’t represented for the entire student body.
• Developed a readership with my column, “Out Front with Hunt.”
• Established a relationship with readers submitting columns on a weekly basis.

• Authored several front page articles and covered a variety of writing assignments.
• Assisted with editorial functions including final editing.

Computer Skills

Online Creator Skills

Running the online social media sites on facebook, twitter, Instagram and GriffonNews.com

Links:

[https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Griffon-News-News-Desk/117138145106229]

[https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Griffon-News/166491853613]

[https://www.facebook.com/TheGriffonNewsOpinion]

[https://twitter.com/GriffonNewsCom]

[https://www.instagram.com/GriffonNewsCom]

[https://www.griffonnews.com]