Director of Public Relations/Assistant City Clerk, The City of Franklin, Kentucky

October 2023 - Present

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Work with each department of the City as the Public Information Officer, Create Content and Manage Official City of Franklin Ky Social Media Pages, assist the City Clerk with duties such as government meeting agenda planning, open records requests, record keeping, and community engagement. 

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Assistant Director, Simpson County Tourism Commission

April 2022 - October 2023

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Assist the Tourism Director with ongoing projects, event planning for festivals, tourism related activities and annual parades, document filing, create marketing campaigns, work directly with community partners, content-creation for social media platforms to promote the VisitFranklinKy appeal. 

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Group Managing Editor 

​January 2019 - March 2022

 

Manage editorial content, invoicing, freelancers and day-to-day tasks for three newspapers, including the Franklin Favorite, the Portland Leader and the Macon County Times. Previously group managed the Warrick County Standard, McLean County News and Newburgh Magazine.

 

 

Editor, Franklin Favorite weekly newspaper

February 2017 - March 2022

 

​Write and assign stories to staff, monitor production process, plan editorial calendar and budgets, conduct interviews, manage day-to-day office responsibilities, manage and hire freelance writers and photographers, plan and build special publications for the newspaper.

 

 

Co-host of the Megs and Talley Show on 1220 WFKN

​April 2018 to December 2018

 

​Co-host of the Megs & Talley Show, a personality radio show on 1220 WFKN Franklin. The show included local and national news, events, sports and more.

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Freelancer Writer, Big Frontier, Chicago, Ill.

March 2014 to December 2017

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Wrote white papers, researched information, placed data into spread sheets, contacted publication editors, assisted clients with business social media growth.

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Features Reporter, Franklin Favorite weekly newspaper

September 2014 to February 2017 

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Reporter and photographer for the weekly community paper, copy edited stories for print, ran social media and posted to the newspaper's webpage, represented the newspaper at events, conducted interviews.

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Freelance Writer, Pioneer Press/Sun-Times Media, Chicago, Ill.

May 2014 to September 2014

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Wrote stories and took photos while on assignment at various community events for the features section of the publication.

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Editorial Assistant, SociaLife Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

January 2014 to September 2014

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Pitched and wrote two-to-five stories per week, attended community happenings, fashion shows and beauty events and conducted interviews for the online lifestyle magazine. 

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Writing and Research Intern for Robert K. Elder, Chicago, Ill. 

January 2014 to May 2014

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Typed audio transcriptions, created a book proposal, researched information for projects for Elder, who is the former Vice President of Digital Content and Editor-in-Chief of Sun-Times local.

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Web intern, Freelance Writer, NBCChicago.com, Chicago, Ill.

June 2013 to August 2013; Auto show coverage in February 2014

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Wrote stories, created photo slideshow galleries, edited photos, pitched stories, attended meetings and monitored social media trends. Ran web coverage of the Chicago Auto Show 2014 as a freelance web producer for NBC Chicago Channel 5. 

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Assistant Campus News Editor, The Columbia Chronicle

January 2013 to April 2013

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Wrote multiple stories per week, copy edited, created page layouts in Indesign CS6, conducted interviews and fact checked assignments. 

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Young Editorial Staff, Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo, MI

Fall 2008 to Summer 2009

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Pitched commentary ideas to the board, wrote six opinion pieces for publication.

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