Sarai O. E. Johnson 931.215.4531 johnsonsarai92@gmail.com

EDUCATION: HOWARD UNIVERSITY School of Communications Bachelors of Arts in Communications: May 2014 Major: Print/Online Journalism Minor: English

DIGITAL EDITING SKILLS: Mastery of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Photoshop, InDesign, PageMaker, Associated Press and

Chicago editing styles; content management software including Drupal, Ellington, and NewsGate; and extensive social media experience: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, BlogSpot, and Tweet Deck.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

3/15-present Editorial Assistant Local Media Connection; Alexandria, Va.

Generate local content daily for print and online, including calendar & entertainment listings, news briefs, crime reports, business briefs, school and education notes. Community engagement, communication with community, readers and sources. Continuously seek new sources of local information. Update websites daily, post to social media. Frequently update the ConnectionNewspapers.com and associated web sites and social media. Design and paginate weekly entertainment, calendar and notes pages for multiple papers.

9/14- 3/15 Creative Writing Teaching Intern Writopia Lab; Washington, District of Columbia

Assist instructors to prepare lesson plans, instruct workshops and classes. Other responsibilities included editing online literary magazine, The Parenthetical.

9/13- 7/14 Communications Intern The Aspen Institute; Washington, District of Columbia

Prepared content for online and digital publication. Tasks included: reading and editing position papers; reading and editing seminar and presentation transcripts; preparing and writing posts for The Aspen Idea Blog; selecting images and editing documents in InDesign and Photoshop for The Aspen Idea magazine.

5/13-8/13 Pulliam Fellow The Indianapolis Star; Indianapolis, Ind.

Researched, pitched and reported stories for the Star’s Entertainment/Arts beat. Also prepared multimedia packages and content for online and print publication.

12/11-5/13 Editorial Fellow DC Modern Luxury; Washington, District of Columbia

Hired, trained and managed a team of five interns. Edited and managed content for the "Scene" and "On The Scene" sections. Produced content for online and print publication.

9/11-5/12 Section Editor 101 Magazine; Washington, District of Columbia

Created print and online story budgets, assigned stories to and managed a team of writers within assigned beat, edited 3-4 articles per week on a deadline, represented the magazine at media events.

5/11-1/13 Assistant Editor Baby & Children's Product News / Nashville House& Home& Garden; Nashville, Tenn.

Prepared magazine for publication, maintained company relationships with manufacturers, fact-checked content, researched new products, wrote 5-6 blurbs per week, and 2-4 feature-length articles per month, represented the magazines at media events and trade shows including HKTDC in Hong Kong (2012 and 2014).

1/11-5/11 Editorial Assistant Intern DC Modern Luxury; Washington, District of Columbia

Prepared calendar for publication, researched events within beat, updated contact lists, maintained relationships with contacts, wrote blurbs about social events, and fact checked content.

9/10-5/11 Reporter/Copy Editor WHBC830am.com; Washington, District of Columbia

Created press releases, interviewed community leaders and edited six-ten articles per week on a deadline.

OTHER PROJECTS: Freelance Reporter; Black Moms Daily Consultant; Population Services International

HONORS: Top Ten Finalist in the Virginia B. Ball Writing Competition (2009) Regional Scholastic Art &Writing Awards Gold Key Recipient (2010) Howard University Founders Scholarship (2010-2014)