Resume

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Experience | Blogging | Projects | Skills | Honors | Education | Memberships

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EXPERIENCE

The Grand Rapids Press — (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
(Circulation: 133,107 daily; 182,252 Sunday)

  • Sports Copy Desk/Web Intern (May 2010 – Present)
    Starting May 17: Beginning second stint with The Press on the sports copy desk, which will include pagination, proofreading and possibly Web posting. Hoping to work with the Web desk and innovate as the summer continues.
  • Copy Desk Intern (May – Aug. 2009)
    Designed and proofread section fronts, inside Region pages on deadline and inside Sunday pages. Primary Saturday Religion section designer. Wrote headlines and decks. Also posted stories to MLive.com, the parent site of the Press, including aggregation. Other experience: Monitoring Associated Press wires, weekend sports copy editing.

Central Michigan Life — (Mount Pleasant, Mich.)
(Circulation: 13,000 Monday, Wednesday and Friday)

  • Editor in Chief (Aug. 2009 – May 2010)
    Managed the online and print operation of the award-winning student publication, including overseeing an editorial staff of 10 editors and 100 reporters, photographers and videographers. Led the shift to a Web-first newsroom (24-hour deadline mentality, link journalism, multimedia presentations and building an online community via chats and comments). Built and launched a redesign of the publication’s website, cm-life.com (before and after).

    During my editorship:

    • Central Michigan Life won its first-ever ACP Online Pacemaker Finalist award.
    • The extensive multimedia project “24 Hours in Mount Pleasant” placed 16th in a Hearst national collegiate competition.
    • Pageviews on cm-life.com boosted by 40 percent since Jan. 2009 (when I began as online editor).
    • Facebook fans boosted by 2,500. Twitter followers boosted by 800.
  • Online Editor (Jan. – May 2009)
    Improved the publication’s online presentation. Posted stories and laid out Web site after deadline each production night. Also, promoted social networking via Twitter and Facebook, introduced Soundslides, optimized the site for news search engines and added front-page elements such as a video player, Soundslides presentation and events calendar.
  • Senior Football Writer (Aug. – Dec. 2007, Aug. – Dec. 2008)
    Extensively covered the CMU football team during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Wrote a wide range of previews, recaps and columns. Managed a blog throughout the 2008 season, using it for live updates, pregame and postgame notes, photos, links and several weekly features. Also used the Central Michigan Life Web site for live updating during games.
  • Host, “SportsLine” Video Program (Aug. – Dec. 2008)
    Hosted a twice-a-week online video show that discussed the CMU football team, from game recaps and thoughts to previews and predictions.
  • Previous roles: Summer editor-in-chief, News editor, assistant sports editor, lifeline editor, staff reporter.

The Detroit Free Press — (Detroit, Mich.)

  • Sports Freelancer (Sept. – Dec. 2009)
    Helping in covering CMU football and other Michigan college football games for the Free Press throughout the fall.

The Saginaw News — (Saginaw, Mich.)
(Circulation: 46,000 daily, 56,000 Sunday)

  • Metro Intern (May – Aug. 2008)
    Wrote more than 60 stories in 12 weeks for mid-size daily. Covered two townships, one school board and one village. Also wrote stories on general assignment and helped editors out on deadline each morning with phone calls and fact-checking. Other experience: Tabulating township election results.

BLOGGING

  • BrianManzullo.com – (July 2009 – present) A multimedia journalist’s blog and online portfolio on journalism, new media, sports and more.
  • Chip Shots Weblog — (July 2008 – Jan. 2009) A Central Michigan Life blog covering the CMU football team during its 2008 season. Posted real-time updates and photos during games. Posted links, analysis, predictions and more during the week.

PROJECTS

  • Redesign of cm-life.com – (July – Aug. 2009) Spent up to four weeks researching, planning, branding and developing Central Michigan Life’s new Web site (original post here) after switching content management systems (from College Publisher to WordPress).

SKILLS

  • Social media/networking
    • Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, YouTube, live blogging, live tweeting, CoverItLive, linking
  • Graphic design
    • InDesign, Photoshop, NewsMaker, some Illustrator and Flash
  • Web development
    • (X)HTML, CSS, XML, some PHP and JavaScript
  • Content management/publishing
    • WordPress, Movable Type
  • Video production
    • Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, Soundslides Plus, some iMovie
  • Audio production
    • GarageBand, Audacity
  • Other
    • MediaGrid, Microsoft Office, Photo Mechanic, basic MySQL
    • Leadership, personnel management, teamwork, patience, flexibility, efficiency

HONORS

  • Michigan Press Association (2008)
    1st Place, Sports Column, “Tiebreaker rules make little sense”
    2nd Place, Sports News, “Big ballin’”
    3rd Place, Sports Feature, “Living for football”
  • Society of Professional Journalists, Region 4 (2007)
    2nd Place, Sports Column Writing

EDUCATION

  • Central Michigan University (Aug. 2005 – May 2010)
    Bachelor of Science
    Major:     Journalism — News Editorial (B.S.)
    Minor: Media Design, Production and Technology
    Cumulative GPA: 3.45

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Society of Professional Journalists, CMU Chapter (Aug. 2007 – Present) — Attended SPJ’s Region 4 conferences in 2009 and 2010 (Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio, respectively)
  • Central Michigan Life Editorial Board (Aug. 2008 – May 2010) — Worked with a team of five to discuss editorials and other opinion page content for each edition.