Taylor Harvey

taylorlharvey@gmail.com taylorlharvey.com @tharveyuw 908.489.0567

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
City Life Editor | The Madison Commons Madison, WI | May to August 2013
+ Brainstorm, explore and report various hyperlocal, issue-based stories for The Madison Commons, a news outlet focusing on various grassroots community-based stories significant to Madison residents not typically found in mainstream media. + Conduct interviews and gather data to produce under-reported enterprise stories at community/neighborhood level. + Create data visualization projects (i.e. maps, timelines) to accompany reports. + Promoted from City Life writer (Jan. to May 2013)

Areas of Expertise
Reporting, Editing Breaking coverage Feature writing Investigative reporting Interviewing Research, Fact-checking Copy editing, AP Style Leadership Mentoring, Training Headlines, Cutlines Digital Photo

Editorial Intern | Isthmus Madison, WI | May to August 2013

+ Exercised strong and versatile reporting skills to pitch &cover various state, local and higher education governments & issues for Madisons award-winning weekly newspaper. + Reported multiple stories surrounding a controversial development proposal, a local news highlight of summer 2013.

Skills
Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Suite, iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, Audacity, Wordpress, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, some HTML & CSS.

News Manager | The Daily Cardinal Madison, WI | May 2012 to May 2013
+ Directed news content quality for the nations only competing daily student newspaper, winner of three major awards in 2012-13. + Managed, mentored & trained papers seven news editors and 40+ reporters. + Instituted higher standards for web content, breaking coverage, social media. + Acted as point-person in breaking news events. + Developed ideas for and edited feature & investigative pieces. + Held weekly brainstorm sessions to generate out-of-the-box and intriguing story ideas. + Focused and edited papers coverage for diversity, honesty and relevancy the student body.

Coursework

Journalism/Communication: Mass Media Practices City News Editor | The Daily Cardinal Intermediate Reporting Madison, WI | May to December 2011 Hyperlocal Reporting Interpretation of Contemporary Affairs +Researched, assigned and edited all city news stories, i.e. zoning codes, local government and crime/courts. New Media Tech. for Social Change + Recruited and led 10 reporters. History of Mass Comm. + Broke herion epidemic story and later published enterprise feature. Effects of Mass Comm. Intro to Strategic Communication Creative Messages in Media

Once a Badger, always a badger

University of Wisconsin-Madison | August 2013 University of Cape Town | January to June 2012

Other: African Studies Certificate Extensive History Coursework

+ B.A. in Journalism, Reporting & Strategic Communications Tracks + Certificate in African Studies