Michelle Monroe

Local Address: 1745 E. Glenn St. Tucson AZ 85719

(916) 375-9299

Employment

News editor, Arizona Daily Wildcat (December 2009 — present)

• Hire news reporters
• Hold desk meetings to review the previous weeks positives and negatives
• Meet individually with reporters to discuss improvements and story ideas
• Enterprise story ideas and develop beats for reporters

News reporter, Arizona Daily Wildcat (August 2009 – December 2009)

• Covered the technology beat, including complete system transformation on campus
• Wrote general assignment stories as needed including one about two University of Arizona alumni who won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in local reporting on a sheriff’s racial profiling
• Enterprised a continuous series on interesting classes offered at the University of Arizona
• Covered Greek Life beat

Copyeditor, Arizona Daily Wildcat (January 2009 – December 2009)

• Was responsible for line editing all news and police beat stores three nights a week
• Wrote headlines and cutlines
• Stayed until deadline to review flats

Sports stringer, Arizona Daily Star (May 2009 – November 2009)

• Covered weekly high school football for story capsules on deadline
• Loaded box scores onto Web site with attention to accuracy
• Covered interscholastic baseball tournament

Desk assistant, Residence Life – Pima Hall (August 2009 – present)

• Research and problem solve on a variety of student issues and questions
• Maintain building security

News reporter, Arizona Summer Wildcat (May 2009 – August 2009)

• Covered a range of topics from technology on campus to a comparison of statistics and acceptance rates of the University of Arizona and the University of California schools

Copy chief, Arizona Summer Wildcat (May 2009 – August 2009)

• Filled positions on copy desk
• Supervised two people
• Scheduled hours
• Stayed until deadline to review all flats
• Wrote headlines and cutlines
• Was responsible for line editing all newspaper content

Awards and Achievements

• Nominated for and participated in the University of Arizona’s Fall 2009 Mark Finley Gold Pen Award for Best Beginning Newswriter Competition

Education

• University of Arizona, expected graduation May 2012
  • Journalism major
  • 3.757 GPA cumulative

References by request