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I am a multifaceted young journalist and Central Michigan University alum who currently works as online sports producer at The Arizona Republic (azcentral.com) in Phoenix. Along with experience in writing, editing and design, I also have knowledge in Web producing and developing, managing social media, shooting/editing video, recording/editing audio, photography and producing audio slideshows (Soundslides).
As 2009-2010 editor in chief of Central Michigan Life, I took on the challenge of single-handedly rebuilding cm-life.com, using a new content management system (WordPress) and using it to reinvent Life’s news operation and workflow. We began hosting live chats, livestream video, crowdsourcing and empowering our social media resources. This all-around effort earned Life its first-ever Associate Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker Finalist award this past year.
My objective: To, in one way or another, help shape journalism’s future. Whether it’s to make one news outlet’s Web presentation better or invent something that completely revolutionizes journalism, I want to be a part of the next step.
There are many different ways to tell a story in today’s age, and many different techniques journalists can use to make those stories the best and most informative they can possibly be. There are many who fear of the future of journalism, an industry as uncertain as it is essential. I embrace it.
~Brian J. Manzullo
More information:
- Central Michigan Life wins first national ACP Pacemaker award since 2006 (Central Michigan Life — Nov. 1, 2010)
- Central Michigan Life an ACP Online Pacemaker finalist for the first time (Central Michigan Life — April 1, 2010)
- Manzullo named Michigan Press Association College Journalist of the Year (Central Michigan Life — Oct. 9, 2009)
- Two CM Life editors place in national Hearst writing competition (Central Michigan Life — April 1, 2009)
