Resume - Jessica Galliart

Jessica Galliart

1311 N. Greenview/Apt. 7, Chicago, IL 60642 316-304-2900 312-369-8959(work) ●[email protected] Website: JessKnowsBest.WordPress.com  Twitter: @JessicaGalliart

Career Goal 

Magazine Editor – Report on topical issues, write profile pieces, lay out and design magazine sections, manage reporting staff and freelancers, and copy edit.

Related Experience Editor-in-Chief—The Columbia Chronicle—Columbia College; Chicago, IL (June 2008 – present)  Manage staff of 30-plus writers, editors, photographers, graphic designers, copy editors.  Oversee all components of 40-plus page weekly print and online publication. Freelance Writer—Venus Zine / VenusZine.com—Chicago, IL (Aug. 2008 – present)  Pitch story ideas to section editors pertaining to women in the arts.  Concentrate on music features, TV and film profiles, features, and Q&As. Coordinator—Billboard/UWIRE College Town Tour Guide—Chicago, IL (June 2008 – Sept. 2008)  Wrote, assigned content for all sections, wrote “Town Intro,” photographed places featured.  Organized all content, music clips, photos, supplemental material. Editorial Intern—Venus Zine—Chicago, Illinois (May 2008 – Aug. 2008)  Assisted Music Features editor with copy editing, fact-checking, posting stories, web issues.  Set up Google Doc system for assignment sheets for better communication among editors. Features Editor—Echo Magazine—Columbia College; Chicago, IL (Jan. 2008 – May 2008)  Wrote pieces for front-of-book section, departments, and features.  Collaborated with writers on story pitches, edited feature pieces, fact-checked many articles. Editor (several positions)—The Columbia Chronicle—Chicago, IL (Aug. 2007 – May 2008)  Staff Writer, Copy Editor, Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor, A&E Editor.  Reported on a variety of topics, copy-edited weekly 40-plus-page newspaper.  Managed, organized, and budgeted content. Managed assistant editors and freelance writers. Art Director – GeezerJock magazine—Euflexxa Extra—Chicago, IL (May 2007 – July 2007)  Designed 24-page daily supplement for 10 days during 2007 National Senior Games.  Designed advertisements; Prepared four-page feature spreads prior to Senior Games. Copy Editing Intern—The Daily Herald—Arlington Heights, IL (May 2007 – Aug. 2007)  Copy-edited news stories, according to The Daily Herald and AP stylebooks.  Copy-edited all mock-up pages at drop deadline, sent pages to printer.  Wrote and contributed headlines for news stories, features, columns, and obituaries.

Education 

Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL 60605 Bachelor of Arts: Magazine Journalism Projected graduation date: May 2009 Cumm. GPA: 3.3 Proficient in: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Xpress, Wordpress, iMovie, Garage Band, Audacity, HTML, CSS

Awards/Honors       

Presidential Scholarship—Columbia College Chicago—2005-2008 (renewable) John Fischetti Scholarship—Columbia College Chicago—2007, 2008 1st Place, Entertainment Supplement—Illinois College Press Association Convention 2009 2nd Place, Feature Story—ICPA Convention 2009 2nd Place, Special Supplement—ICPA Convention 2009 1st Place, Feature Story—ICPA Convention 2008 Third Place, Headline Writing—ICPA Convention 2008

References    

Chris Richert – Columbia Chronicle General Manager, (312) 344-8955 Nancy Day—Columbia Journalism Department Chair, (312) 369-8989 Amy Schroeder—Venus Zine founder, former editor, (773) 310-1144 Noah Isackson—Contributing Editor, Chicago magazine; instructor, (773) 802-0711