Kate Yanchulis

College Park, Md.
E-mail: kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

Education | Experience | Skills | Leadership and Community Involvement


EDUCATION

B.A., Journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism
 •   Outstanding News-Editorial Senior Award
•   Outstanding Multimedia News Senior Award

B.A., American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities
•   Top American Studies Scholar
•   American Studies Departmental Honors Citation

December 2010 from the University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
4.0 GPA •   Summa Cum Laude   •   University Honors Citation

EXPERIENCE

Website content writer, Saint Timothy Catholic School, Chantilly, Va.

 

Work part-time developing the structure and writing and editing the
content for website redesign. February 2011-present.

Beat reporter, The Diamondback, College Park, Md.

 

Became the first woman to cover Terrapin football and men’s basketball
as a beat reporter for this 17,000-circulation independent daily student
newspaper. Produced stories and blog posts daily on deadline while
reporting on Division I sports teams. September 2007-December 2010.

Multimedia reporter, News21, Carnegie-Knight Initiative, College Park, Md.

 

Conducted in-depth investigative reporting on the politics and pollution
of the Chesapeake Bay for this national journalism fellowship sponsored
by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.
January-August 2010.

Intern, USA TODAY, McLean, Va.

 

Focused on online editing and publishing for the Sports Network Desk,
where the online and print sides of this national-circulation paper
converge. Controlled appearance of Web pages and created multimedia
elements. Also covered sporting events. May-August 2009.

Intern, Express, Arlington, Va.

 

Edited articles, fact-checked pages, and wrote articles for the Sports
section of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area weekday newspaper
owned by the Washington Post Co., which has more than 300,000 daily
readers. September-December 2008.


SKILLS

  • Proficient in HTML, CSS, Macromedia Dreamweaver, WordPress, Adobe Photoshop and Flash and social media
  • Basic Adobe Soundbooth and Audition, Audacity and Final Cut
  • Studied sports journalism under former Washington Post sports editor George Solomon and online journalism under former Washingtonpost.com editor Leslie Walker

LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Professional:

  • Student correspondent, Online News Association National Conference, October 2010
  • Society of Professional Journalists, University of Maryland chapter, 2008-present
  • Participant, Sport Journalism Workshop of the Shirley Povich Professor at UMD, 2008 and 2009
  • Recipient, Stanley E. Rubenstein Memorial Journalism Scholarship, 2008

Community:

  • Youth soccer referee, Grade 8, Chantilly Youth Association, 2000-present
  • Middle school volunteer basketball coach, St. Timothy Catholic School, 2005-2008
  • Community service committee, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, 2008-present

Academic:

  • Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar, one of the top students in the University of Maryland’s senior class, 2010
  • Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society, University of Maryland chapter, 2009-present
  • Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, University of Maryland chapter, 2009-present
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Maryland chapter, 2010-present
  • Primannum Honor Society (Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma), University of Maryland chapter, 2008-present
  • Top Ten Freshman, Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society, University of Maryland Chapter, April 2008

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