Susan LulgjuraJ
E-mail: susan.lulgjuraj@gmail.com Twitter: @Soozonsports
JOURNALISM Experience
Editor/Contributing
Editor, Beckett Media, Aug. 2010 – Present
- Write
several blog posts a week about focusing on trends, features and updates
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Develop and write feature stories for national monthly publications
- Built
social media base separate from mainstream accounts; 1,000 Twitter followers
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Administrator of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook
Staff
Writer/Social Media, The Press of Atlantic City, Nov. 2004 – Aug. 2012
- First staff
writer to embrace social media and blogging to engage readers
- Develop social
media strategy for sports department
- Write web-only
content and post stories to PressofAtlanticCity.com
- Administrator
of Facebook page with more than 11,000 fans
- Managed several multimedia
projects of special inserts for daily paper
- Created video
series using Final Cut
- Write feature
stories and on-deadline reports for print
- Philadelphia
Phillies playoff coverage; 2008 MLB All-Star Game in New York City
- Covered NFL,
MLB, NBA, NCAA, NHL and LPGA sporting events
- More than 2,600
Twitter followers
Staff
Writer, The Journal News, Westchester, N.Y., Nov. 2002 – Nov. 2004
- Pitched and wrote stories about Red
Sox documentary, Yankees Old-Timers day
- Covered several high school sports
beats, writing game stories and features
Education
College
of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, N.Y., 1998 – 2002
Bachelor
of Arts degree in Communications
Awards
2008 - New
Jersey Press Association, Sports Writing Portfolio, 1st place
- First woman in
state, first Press reporter to win category (circ. 65,000+)
2010 - New
Jersey Press Association, Sports Writing Portfolio, 2nd place
skills
Digital storytelling, video editing,
blogging, social media
Website publishing using Town News
CMS, WordPress and Blogger.com
Final Cut Express, Windows Live Movie
Maker, Microsoft Office, Basic HTML
