ASHLEY HINSON

News Anchor/Reporter
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Work Experience

KCRG TV-9 News- Midday Anchor/Morning Reporter
September 2005- Present

-Anchor newly expanded one-hour-long show with variety of news and interviews
-Four live hits during morning show from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.,
including variety of breaking news, interviews, and straight lives
-Fill in anchor for morning and other
newscasts
-Linear Editing

 

KJCT News 8 This Morning Morning - Co-Anchor

-Co-Produce and Anchor Western Colorado’s only Live Morning Newscast
-Anchor cut ins to Good Morning America, CNN Headline News, and Radio Morning Show Newscasts
-Live adlibbing and Breaking News skills in addition to writing, editing and anchoring news.
 -Daily Interviews via satellite or live in-studio.
-Employee of the Month for September2004 for Outstanding Contributions to the Newsroom
-Fill in Anchor/Reporter for nightly and weekend newscasts
-Editing with Leitch Non-Linear editing systems, as well as portable laptop editor.

Annenberg TV News (ATVN) -  Anchor and Reporter

-Covered important events such as the California Wildfires, Democratic Presidential Debate as well as the Health Beat and Education Beat as a News Anchor/Reporter.
-Produced material for newscast by writing shooting and editing stories.
-Extensively worked with Blue Screen and Chroma-Key as weather anchor.
-Knowledge of both Linear and Non-linear (Avid) editing systems.
-Created graphics using Adobe Photoshop.
-Anchored the Emmy Winning-Student Produced Newscasts at ATVN.
-Worked with AP Newscenter.

Spring 2002 - General News Intern/Spring 2003 -Entertainment Intern at KABC-Los Angeles

-Assisted in logging interviews and writing scripts.
-Aided in preparation for 2002 and 2003 Academy Awards.
- Worked with staff to shoot stand-ups and put together  packages for nightly newscasts
-Supported assignment desk by answering phones and calling for interviews.
-Gained working knowledge of newsroom conduct, graphics editing and commercial
  broadcast writing.
 

August 2000 - August 2001 Production Assistant/Tape Editor WOI-TV Des Moines, IA

-Operated studio camera and teleprompter.
-Worked extensively with Electronic Newsroom (ENR) software to log and archive tapes.
- Edited (linear) VO/VSV/PKGs for both 5 p.m. and 10p.m. newscasts
-Served as a general newsroom assistant, making beat calls and answering phones.

August 1999-May 2001 News Director KWDM Radio 88.7 FM

-Served as coordinator of 4 person news staff.
-Wrote and broadcast live news updates during morning and afternoon dayparts.
-Hosted two on-air shows with music, advertisements, and talk segments
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Education

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA       August  2001- 2004
 BA Broadcast Journalism, May, 2004. GPA- 3.47- (Grad. in 3 years)


Involvement


-Secretary of RTNDA USC Chapter
-Member Lambda Pi Eta, Communication Honor Society
-Annenberg TV News
-Concertmaster- University Orchestrar
- Mesa County  "First Book" Committee Member
-Volunteer-Teach Violin lessons lo Junior High Students
-Partners Organization- Volunteer Auctioneer for Fundraiser
-Girl Scouts of Chipeta Council- Volunteer/Host for fundraiser events
-1999-2001-violinist in Des Moines Symphony Orchestra
-Judge for Wisconsin Broadcaster’s Assoc. 2005 Awards, Fruita Fall Fest and Palisade Peach Festival

Ashley Hinson

Represented by:

Neal Gordon
MarketJump

(706) 627 - 4363

hinsonashley@yahoo.com