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ASHLEY (NIKI) DOYLE2317 S. Memorial Parkway Huntsville, Ala. 35801 256-532-2627

[email protected] www.nikidoyle.com

EDUCATIO N Auburn University Auburn, Ala.Graduated in May 2007 Bachelor of Arts

Major: Journalism Minor: BusinessOverall GPA: 3.80 Honors: Summa Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE The Huntsville Times Huntsville, Ala.

March 2009 Present Social Media Editor

Train newsroom staff to use our content management system (Moveable

Type Enterprise 4.2), Twitter and Facebook to share news items andinformation

Establish best practices for using social media to disseminate news

Monitor traffic to al.com and use analytics tools to determine popularcontent and refine best practices

Oversee content on the Huntsville section of al.com

Coordinate with other editors and reporters to create online extras

July 2007 March 2009 Crime and public safety reporter

Covered breaking news and worked on long-term projects

Served as city editor one weekend a month

Led the award-winning coverage of the murder of Huntsville police officerEric Freeman, one of only eight officers here to die in the line of duty since

the department was founded.

Established CrimeTrack, a blog dedicated to tracking crime in Huntsville

Sent text alerts of breaking news events as one of only two reporters

allowed to use this feature

Took photographs and shot and edited video for the Web

June 2007 July 2007 Intern

Hired within the first month of my internship

The Auburn Plainsman Auburn, Ala.

Aug. 2006 May 2007 Editor-in-ChiefJan. 2006 May 2006 Copy Editor

Aug. 2005 Dec. 2006 Associate Copy Editor

Dec. 2004 May 2005 Assistant Photo EditorSept. 2004 Nov. 2004 Campus, Sports and Photography volunteer

The paper placed second in the Best College Newspaper category in theSoutheast Journalism Conference Best of the South competition while I

was editor

Editor responsibilities included dictating the overall direction of aweekly paper, overseeing a 27-person staff and serving as the final

say on content and budget decisions for a financially independent

college newspaper


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Other responsibilities: Wrote stories and columns, shot photos,edited copy and paginated using QuarkXPress and InDesign

EXPERIENCE The Birmingham News Birmingham, Ala.

May 2006 Aug. 2006 News Intern Worked as a general assignment reporter

Responsibilities included reporting, writing and editing

Wrote breaking news stories and worked on long-term projects

TimesDaily Florence, Ala.

May 2005 June 2005 News Intern

May 2004 Nov. 2004 Sports InternOct. 2002 March 2003 Staff Writer

Worked as an unpaid intern in all editorial departments, including copy

Wrote sports, features and news stories; shot most photos for stories Shot photos of Auburn football games after returning to college

Wrote for the td extreme, the papers high school page

The Prep Sports Reporter Rogersville, Ala.

Sept. 2002 Nov. 2002 Staff Writer

Worked as reporter and photographer

Featured reporter of the week for the first publication

The East Lauderdale News Rogersville, Ala.

April 2002 May 2003 Photographer

Shot photographs of local events

Worked with one other photographer to shoot the 2002 and 2003editions of the East Lauderdale News Vacation Guide

ACTIVITIES Society of Professional JournalistsAuburn Chapter President (2006-2007), Vice President (spring 2006)

AW ARDS First place, Best Non-Deadline Reporting2008 Alabama Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) Awards

First place, Best Deadline Reporting

2007 Alabama APME AwardsFirst place, Best News Reporter

2006 Southeast Journalism Conference Best of the South competition

First place in region, Online Reporting

2005 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards

Overall Winner (best entry) 2002 Alabama Scholastic Press Association contest

First place photography portfolio 2002 ASPA contestThird place photography portfolio 2003 ASPA contest2002 Special Merit Award in Layout & Design, Walsworth Publishing Company

SCH O LARSH IPS Full tuition freshman academic scholarship (2003-2007)

Boone Scholarship for Journalism Excellence, full tuition (2006-2007)


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Lynne Hopkins Memorial Scholarship (2006-2007)

Decatur Daily/Barrett C. Shelton full tuition journalism scholarship (2005-2006)

HO NO RS Mortar Board honor society

Phi Kappa Phi honor societyGolden Key International Honour Society

National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Alpha Theta Chi honor society

University Honors College, 1 semesterThe Chancellors List, 2 semesters

The National Deans List, 3 semesters

CO MPUTER Proficient in Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word, Comet,

SK I L L S Microsoft Excel, Photoshop 7.0, Moveable Type, Wordpress, NewsEditPro

(Baseview)

Working knowledge in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop CS4 and Final Cut Pro

Working knowledge in HTML and CSS

Have used Twitter and Facebook to promote newspaper Web sites

Able to record, edit and upload video and audio to the Web

REFERENCES Available on request

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