Kiyoshi Martinez | résumé

e-mail: kiyoshimartinez@gmail.com | AIM: kiyoshimartinez
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>>Experience

Communications and Public Affairs Specialist | Illinois Senate Republican Caucus, Feb 2008 - present

• Performing press and public relations duties
• Developing online communications strategies
• Monitoring media coverage of state government and politics

Web editor | 22nd Century Media, Sept 2007 – Feb 2008

• Managed and coordinated schedules for editorial content of five local newspapers in Chicago’s south suburbs (Orland Park, New Lenox, Frankfort, Mokena and Homer Glen)
• Helped develop new interactive features for newspaper websites
• Shot and edited video news stories and features for websites

Statehouse Capitol bureau intern | Rockford Register-Star, Jan 2007 – June 2007

• Wrote political news stories covering Illinois’ legislative and executive branches on a daily basis for a 60,000-circulation newspaper
• Covered topics ranging from telecommunications deregulation, tax proposals, education funding and global-warming legislation

Editor in chief, reporter, page designer | The Daily Illini, Aug 2004 – July 2006

• Managed, coordinated newsroom of 15 editors and 50 other student journalists at 20,000-circulation campus newspaper at University of Illinois at Urbana
• Produced two award-winning articles for news reporting on campus police using Facebook to arrest students & in-depth analysis of higher education funding
• Designed opinions, inside and features pages for both broadsheet and tabloid format in InDesign & Quark Express

Copy editor | UIS Journal, Aug 2006 – Dec 2006

• Line edited articles for weekly student newspaper at University of Illinois at Springfield
• Assisted in proofreading pages before publication

Public relations intern | Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Summer 2006

• Wrote articles about finding jobs in computer science field & features on ongoing technology research
• Fact-checked, edited and proofread department brochures and materials

Engineering intern | Packer Engineering, May 2003 - August 2003

• Conducted research into materials science engineering
• Performed failure analysis consulting on handgun barrel defects
  

>>Freelance & contributing work

Stringer | Newsweek, 2005

• Contributed reporting for article on children of fallen soldiers in Iraq War

Contributor | Center for Innovation in College Media Blog, 2007-08

• Wrote essay on the importance of social networks to news organizations 

Contributor | LameRerun.com Blog, 2007

• Wrote commentary and reviews on television shows and news
• Helped set up the site using WordPress blogging software & did CSS modification to existing theme

>>Education

Public affairs reporting | Aug 2006 – June 2007

• M.A. from University of Illinois at Springfield; GPA: 3.72

News-editorial journalism | Aug 2002 – May 2006

• B.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

>>Skills & awards

• Adobe InDesign CS, QuarkExpress, HTML, CSS, basic PhotoShop, AP style, Web design, WordPress
• Experienced in fact-checking, research, legislative process, interviewing, deadline writing, public records, databases, multimedia and social media
• First place, 2007 Illinois College Press Association for best news story: "Student arrested after police Facebook him"
• Honorable mention, 2007 Illinois College Press Association for in-depth reporting: "Increase in tuition coming"