The Palm Beach Post | June 2008 - Present | West Palm Beach, Fla.
Internet Producer (August 2008 - Present): design and implement innovations in The Post’s social media efforts; train reporters and editors in best blogging and social networking practices, including how to interact with our audience and drive traffic; create real life community by organizing in person meet ups for local online social media users; contribute to blogs on technology and the local online community; edit the homepage; handle breaking news online; create multimedia packages.
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing Intern (Summer 2008): kept the homepage fresh by rotating top stories and updated other pages; created and edited interactive graphics and photo galleries; found and added related content to stories; helped set up the main Post Facebook and Twitter accounts.

IRIN, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations | May - July 2007 | Nairobi, Kenya
Researcher Intern: contributed articles and interview features on the humanitarian impact of urbanization in the developing world to IRIN-News, a news service specializing in complex emergencies.

International Crisis Group | August 2006 - March 2007 | Brussels, Belgium
Media Assistant: pitched op-eds to editors, wrote press releases and acted as a liaison between journalists and regional analysts for Crisis Group, an NGO working in conflict prevention and resolution. In addition, gathered endorsement from over 140 former heads of state, ministers, congressional leaders, heads of international organizations and Nobel Peace Prize winners for a Middle East peace initiative statement designed to generate new momentum. It was unveiled in The New York Times, Financial Times, Le Monde and Asharq Al Awsat.

Transparency International | July - August 2005 | Berlin, Germany
Online Communication Group Intern: fact checked the flag-ship annual Global Corruption Report, monitored the press for corruption-related news and researched the use of blogs to increase traffic to the Web site of T.I., an NGO fighting corruption.

BBC News Interactive | Summer 2004 | London, U.K.
World News Intern: uploaded articles to the BBC content management system; wrote headlines, subheadings, and captions; selected photos from wires and edited them in Photoshop for articles and slide shows.

Agence France-Presse | Summer 2004 | London, U.K.
Stringer: wrote 250- to 300-word breaking news stories in English based on press conferences and rewrites from local news, and translated longer French ones into English on tight deadlines.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | 2007 - 2008 | New York, N.Y., USA
M.S. Journalism: articles published in the New York Post, Village Voice, AM New York (among others) and have been blogged about; reported about Highbridge in the South Bronx during fall 2007 on issues such as African immigration and Yankee Stadium.
New Media concentration: video featured on nytimes.com; multimedia Master’s Project about women who decide to give birth at home; reporting, producing and editing NYC24, an online multimedia magazine incorporating text, video, audio and interactives.

University of St Andrews | 2002 - 2006 | St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.
M.A. International Relations: Dissertation on economic agendas and natural resources in African civil wars; intern for the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies conflict-mapping project.
Collegiate journalism: Within one year as business manager for The Saint, cleared the $20,000 debt and started making profit; also served as reporter, op-ed contributor, gossip section editor for the newspaper; news broadcaster for Star FM radio.

Languages: French (fluent); German (conversational); Swahili, Arabic, Russian (beginner).
Dual French-American citizen; Educated in Japan and France.

Skills: video and audio recording and editing (Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools); web and multimedia editing (HTML, Adobe Flash); digital SLR photography and photo editing (Photoshop, Photo Mechanic); knowledge of various content management systems and blogging softwares; active in social networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

Affiliations: Society for Professional Journalists, Online News Association, Association of Health Care Journalists.

Find me on: Twitter, LinkedIn and Flickr. I also have Facebook, Del.icio.us, Last.fm and other social networking and bookmarking sites aliases.