Kerry Davis

959 Jackson St., San Francisco CA 94133 phone: 415-235-4023 email: mskerrydavis@gmail.com @mskerryd

Objective Highly-engaged multimedia reporter seeks a job that melds creativity and passion with oldschool journalistic values. Reporting Experience Multimedia Reporter, IDG News Service, San Francisco, Calif. 9/11-present Write, shoot video and photos, edit, host videos, use social media and generally craft interesting and relatable pieces from technology stories. Major Accomplishment: My apps and autism piece profiling a family, frantically hailing cabs in Spain and Taiwan to rush and post videos in an hour or less, communicating in the universal language of tech. Multimedia Reporter, National News21 Fellow, College Park, Md. 5-11-8/11 Applied for and won a spot with News21, a national multimedia reporting project that investigated complex health and public policy food safety issues for three months. Major Accomplishment: Doggedly pursued Food and Drug Administration approval to visit a U.S. Port of Entry to report on food imports. It took six weeks to get a yes. Multimedia Reporter, Capital News Service, Annapolis, Md. 1/11-5/11 Covered typically dry legislative coverage with multimedia creativity on the environment beat. Shot videos and turned them same-day. Managed and updated the Chesapeake website, hosted the Twitter feed and collaborated to put together multimedia components for print stories. Major Accomplishment: Surviving being stranded without gas on a DNR boat on an overnight poaching stakeout. Freelance Reporter, WPRI-TV, East Providence, R.I. 12/05-4/07 Researched, interviewed, reported, edited and condensed information while filing live-shots for the CBS/Fox affiliate TV station in DMA market 53. Major Accomplishment: Led the 5 oclock newscast within 15 minutes of arrival on a breaking news location, where I quickly interviewed a source, edited the tape and ordered graphics too. Reporter and fill-in anchor, KVLY-TV, Fargo, N.D. 7/02-12/05 Built strong network of sources on courts and government beat. Conceived, wrote, voiced and edited long-form sweeps stories as well as daily stories for the NBC affiliate in DMA market 118 (now 120). Major Accomplishment: The day I ran the post-verdict news conference after a major decision on my beat. No other reporter knew the subject like I did and it showed. Skills Video journalism, photography, audio collection, writing, interviewing and voice-over techniques. social media and anchoring/hosting. Proficient use of: Soundslides, Audacity, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, html, CSS, CMS and Premiere. Education Master of Journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park. Graduated: May 2011. Bachelor of Science, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Graduated: May 2003.