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Web Production and Design
The Chronicle
I worked as one of two online editors for The Chronicle, Duke University's student-run daily newspaper. The biggest project I undertook while on the staff was the creation of an online feature devoted to the Duke lacrosse scandal. The site, titled Duke in Turmoil: A Year of Lacrosse, presents the paper's complete coverage of the scandal as well as web-only features such as an in-depth timeline of the case and discussion boards. The site became a resource for Duke students, Durham residents, and the local and national media. It also won two awards - one from CollegePublisher for best online news coverage and the other from Associated Collegiate Press for best online package (honorable mention). I also led development of blogging at The Chronicle, including creating the paper's first ever news and editorial blog and sports blog.
Music in the Museum
I created this website for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History during an internship with the Museum's new media program in 2006. I worked with curators to select objects for the site and, with their help, researched, wrote, and edited copy. I also selected and edited photos, graphics, and audio for the site, and designed it within the larger template of the Museum's website.
All Songs Considered
I was responsible for the "Open Mic" portion of NPR's All Songs Considered during an internship with NPR in 2005. Now called Second Stage, Open Mic featured independent and undiscovered artists. I was responsible for selecting music and contacting artists, writing artist bios, designing graphics for each week's show, editing audio, and updating the site each week.
Next Generation Radio @ WUNC
Several times a year, NPR conducts programs around the country to train college students in radio journalism. In May 2008, one of these projects was held at WUNC, my local member station. NPR's project manager asked if I would be their web producer for the week-long project, and I agreed, thus becoming the first student web producer for Next Generation Radio. I designed and created this site to showcase the students' work in just under five days. I also maintained a blog that chronicled the project.
Brownstone
It rarely gets updated anymore thanks to Facebook, but along with two other Duke students, I helped design and maintain this website for my dorm.
The Digital Divide
Another random design example - this is a website/paper I did for an introductory computer science class freshman year.
Writing/Production (Radio)
The Tech Life At Duke
This 12-minute audio piece, which I wrote and produced at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, explores the dependence on technology in the Duke community and speculates on what this might mean for the world at large. It was created in fall 2005, so some of the ideas presented as "new" are now widespread and mainstream, but it remains a good example of my writing, audio production, and interviewing/reporting skills. You may want to listen to the host intro before listening to the piece itself. The audio was recorded with a tape recorder (!) and edited using ProTools.
WUNC Newscast Clips
During my summer 2007 internship with WUNC (North Carolina Public Radio), I reported, wrote, and produced news stories each day to air across North Carolina on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. This Word document contains transcripts of several of the stories I wrote throughout the summer.
Writing/Production (Video)
Duke Stroll Show
This short video piece chronicles Duke University's first-ever stroll show, a kind of dance competition meant to bring together different Greek organizations on campus. It was created in fall 2007 for a television journalism class. I shot almost all the video and wrote the script, my partner (another Duke student) recorded the narration and shot some of the video, and we edited it together using Avid. The camera we were provided with for the class was an inexpensive Canon consumer model, and the only external mic we had access to was a wireless lapel mic.
The Team Six ISIS 140 Video
This video was produced as an exercise in filming and editing for an information science class in spring 2007. It was created using an inexpensive consumer camera with no external mics and edited with Apple's iMovie.
Writing (Print/Web)
For Duke Students, the Quest for Tickets is an Obsession
This story ran in the Durham (NC) Herald-Sun in March 2006. Everyone in Durham (and most of North Carolina) knows that Duke students camp out for weeks to get basketball tickets, but few non-Duke students are familiar with the actual procedure for "tenting" - and it's more complicated and exciting than it sounds. This article was meant to tell that side of the story and ran on the front page the week of the Duke-Carolina basketball game.
Duke Lacrosse Scandal Commentary
In spring 2006, during my sophomore year, three members of the Duke men's lacrosse team were accused of raping an exotic dancer. As we now know, the players were completely innocent, but the situation blew up into a national scandal that eventually resulted in the dropping of all charges and the resignation and disbarrment of Durham, NC's District Attorney, Mike Nifong. I experienced the lacrosse scandal on three levels - as a Duke student, as a tour guide for the Office of Admissions (and thus a representative of the university), and as a journalist. Within a few days of the accusations being made, a National Public Radio staff member asked if I would write a commentary for the NPR website from my perspective as a Duke student (I had interned at NPR the summer prior to the scandal). This piece was written and went up almost right after the story broke in the national media.
Academic Writing & Research
Trade and Religion: Two Crucial Motives Behind the Indian Encounters of Marquette and Jolliet
This research paper discusses the relationship between explorers and American Indians during the Marquette-Jolliet expedition of 1763, which mapped the northern portion of the Mississippi River. It was completed in fall 2007 for my senior capstone seminar in history.