MELANIE  KAHN


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Nancy Shafran
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Professional Experience:

FOX 28 News / WSJV-TV,
South Bend, Indiana
Television News Reporter / Fill-in Anchor,
May 2006-February 2008

• Responsible for generating story ideas for the ten o’clock newscast and presenting stories live on a daily basis.
• Fill-in anchor
• Fill-in producer

KIDK-TV / KIFI-TV,
Pocatello, Idaho
Television News Reporter,
March 2004-May 2006

• Night side Bureau Reporter: Responsible for shooting, writing, editing and generating enterprise stories for the six o’clock and ten o’clock news on a daily basis.
• Primary political reporter covering all local elections and political issues.
“Silent Screams: Modern Day Slavery” Documentary, Boston, Massachusetts

Filmmaker, fall 2003
• Producer, writer, correspondent, photographer and editor of a documentary concerning contemporary slavery in Sudan.
• Documentary is being shown in High Schools throughout the country.
NBC, Washington, D.C.

“Meet the Press” Intern, summer 2003
• Participated in planning, research and taping.
• Handled correspondence with the public, NBC Network, local and national press organizations, political contacts
and maintained extensive political research files.

“Dateline” Consumer Intern, summer 2002
• Worked directly with the producer and correspondent of the consumer unit, on a full time basis, in the Washington D.C. Bureau.
• Assisted in the production of stories by researching original story ideas, conducting interviews and writing story proposals.

WHDH-TV,
Boston, Massachusetts
Assignment Desk Intern, spring 2002

• Assisted in the duties of the assignment desk editor for WHDH-TV, with responsibilities that included research,
phone interviews and MOS interviews.

Special Skills:
• Linear Editing
• Non-linear editing (Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Avid)
• AP News Center, ENPS, I-News
• Able to shoot with all DVCPRO cameras

Education:

Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Arts, December 2003
Major: Political Science
Minors: Communications and Media Studies, Drama
Cum Laude, Dean’s List

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