Virginia Redlon

Virginia Redlon

Sports Writer

Carmel, NY
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Summary

*Examples of work available on website listed*

*Reference letters available upon request*

Experience

2018 Jan - 2018 May
Journalism Teacher's Assistant
Purchase College, State University of New York / Purchase, NY
  • Selected to work closely under Purchase College and Columbia University professor Simon Surowicz, winner of several Emmy awards, a DuPont and a Peabody award for his work as a producer at NBC, CBS, and ABC News.
2016 Sep - 2018 May
Co-Captain
Purchase College Women's Lacrosse / Purchase, NY

Four-Year team member, 2014-2018

2016 Sep - 2018 May
Sports Editor, Staff Writer, Multimedia Producer
Purchase College, The Purchase Phoenix / Purchase, NY

The first Sports Editor at the Phoenix.

  • Wrote and made corrections to sports news articles using AP Style
  • Produced video and multimedia sports stories
  • Reported on games and scores, took photographs
2014 Sep - 2018 May
Intercollegiate Athletic Student Assistant, Information Desk Attendant
Purchase College, State University of New York / Purchase, NY
  • Day of game/event set-up, operations and take-down, stats and scorekeeping, filmed games
  • Aided and answered questions of gym-goers, registered gym memberships, secured and helped in maintenance of the equipment center and fitness center
2014 Oct - 2018 Apr
Student-Athlete Representative
NCAA Intercollegiate Athletics Board / Purchase, NY

Attended meetings, provided feedback to the board from the perspective of a student-athlete in the department.

2015 Jun - 2017 Aug
Summer Intern
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County / Brewster, NY

Large-scale event planning, advertising, purchasing, event set-up/operations/take-down

Education

2014 - 2018
Purchase College, State University of New York
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism / Sports Writing, Video Editing, Multimedia Production

Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

May 2018

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism

Select Coursework:

  • Journalism I &II
  • Race, Gender and the Media
  • Broadcast News I & II
  • Multimedia Tools
  • Media and the Law
  • History of Journalism

Senior Project: A long-form, faculty-reviewed, journalistic work in the form of a website. Grade: A-.

Published at: https://virginiaredlon.wixsite.com/seniorproject

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