Amy Kant
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Summary
Online content producer for local television news station, specializing in social media engagement and the production of high-profile creative and interactive web material using HTML, CSS and a variety of web applications.
Tools
Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, YouTube, WordPress, Blogger, LinkedIn, KickApps, Topix, Flickr, Cover It Live, Ustream, Omniture, Google products, social media monitoring tools, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, AVID Newscutter, Agility, Avid Unity, I-News, HTML, CSS with some experience using Flash, PHP, XML and JavaScript.
Professional Experience
- Develop and manage social networking presence for news, sports, weather and morning show teams, effectively driving brand awareness, engagement and traffic to social media pages.
- In-house expert in computer-assisted reporting, social media and new media integration.
- Implement interactive media strategies, including live video/chat, editorial meeting live blog and special online live events.
- Conceptualize and produce high-profile creative and interactive web material using HTML, CSS and a variety of web applications.
- Manage and produce content for 25 hyper-local community websites and serve as editor for all community reporter submissions.
- Gather local and national news from multiple sources and reproduce them into compelling on-line news content.
- Work with web editorial team to manage daily production of the site and strategize/plan future endeavors.
- Gather and edit video from multiple sources and prepare them for digitizing, encoding and FTP.
- Work in the field covering special events using social media.
- Produced and was on-air talent for “Hot on the Web” segment on FOX 6 WakeUp News.
WITI-TV FOX 6 News, Milwaukee, WI (www.fox6now.com)
Online producer, community and social media manager: August 2006-present
Assignment Editor: April 2004-August 2006
Pink Ink Studios, St. Louis, MO (www.pinkinkstudios.net)
Twitter Manager & Product Designer: October 2008-present
WDJT-TV CBS 58 News, Milwaukee, WI (www.cbs58.com)
Assignment Editor: November 2003-April 2004
Education
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Journalism/Mass Communications major, Print Journalism emphasis (3.658 cumulative GPA)
Honors and Awards
- 2009 Milwaukee Press Club Award for Best Investigative Report or Series: Drug Doctors (Producer)
- 2008 Chicago/Midwest Emmy Nomination: Dating, Lies and Videotape (Producer)
- 2006 UW-Milwaukee Senior Graduation Honors
