Resume

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

- Develop and write feature stories for national monthly publications

- Built social media base separate from mainstream accounts; 1,000 Twitter followers

- 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