Resume

Kaylee DeWitt

kayleedewitt.blogspot.com | (203)731-0026 | kaydewitt11@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Brigham Young University | August 2011-Present | Provo, UT

·         Double Major in Journalism and Russian

·         GPA: 3.74

·         Recipient of Florence Chambers Bay Scholarship, Brigham young Grant, and Christensen Scholarship

Work Experience

Web Writing Intern | Deseret News | Sept. 2017-Present

·       Wrote web and list articles which were published on deseretnews.com

·       Used Google Analytics to record pageviews and engagement times per story

Social Media Marketing Intern | MindWhale | June 2017- Sept. 2017

·       Wrote two blog posts or Storify articles every week on trending mental health topics to create a market funnel to the company’s services

·       Promoted blog posts through social media

Writing Fellow | Brigham Young University | September 2016- April 2017

·         Made marginal corrections to essays written in Russian about organization and analysis

·         Wrote letters to students explaining possible global revisions in essay

·         Met with students individually for 30 minutes to discuss and edit essays

Assistant Campus Desk Editor/Producer | September 2016-December 2016

·         Fact-checked/edited news stories written by student reporters.

·         Produced content/graphics to enhance the stories, such as listicles, storify, calendar, Google Map, and timeline. L

·         earned basic coding in html and kept a news roundup blog.

Intern/Staff Writer | Vesti Segodnya | May 2016-July 2016 | Latvia

·         Studied in Latvia

·         Attended press conferences, wrote news stories and columns, conducted interviews, translated interviews from English to Russian, took photos

·         Interviewed Latvian Olympic team, British ambassador, Indian ambassador, Polish ambassador, etc.

Staff Writer | Daily Universe | January 2013-April 2013

·         Wrote and published 27 articles for the Daily Universe (11 published in newspaper, 16 online)

·         Awarded best overall writer award for Campus Desk of the Daily Universe

BYU Bookstore | Sales Associate | January 2016-April 2016

·         Worked cash register and assisted customers

Full Time Missionary | December 2013-June 2015

·         Taught religion in Ukraine

·         Learned and spoke Russian

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

·           Proficient in using Adobe InDesign, Excel,

·             Digital Photograpy

·             Fluent in Russian

·             Studied abroad in Latvia from May 2016- July 2016

·             News Writing

·             Earned Girl Scout Silver and Gold Awards

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