Stephanie Simoni

Reporter
 

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EXPERIENCE

WJCL (ABC)/WTGS (FOX), New Vision, Savannah, GA - Market 97
General Assignment Reporter (January 2007- Present)
• Extensive live experience
• Sets up, develops, and delivers live feature reports for the morning shows
• Reports on-the-scene ‘live’ breaking news for morning shows
• Conducts live interviews during guest segments
• Delivers, writes, and edits compelling stories for evening newscasts
• Co-produced morning show
• One man band experience
• Works one-on-one with school children for Lunch Menu Program
   o A collaborative effort with Savannah Chatham Public Schools, involves students
      in newscasts everyday throughout the school year
   o Gives tours and teaches children how to utilize production equipment

WTOP Radio, Bonneville Station, Washington, DC - Market 9
Intern Reporter and Assistant Editor (September 2005-May 2006)
• Assigned to cover breaking news updates during the Women’s NCAA Championship
• Set up and conducted interviews for daily stories
• Wrote and voiced stories for the station fifteen hours a week
• Used reporter ingenuity and executed personal story ideas for the station

American University Television News, Washington, DC
Reporter and Head Writer (September 2005-December 2005)
• Wrote and reported live breaking news on national, international, and local news
• Reported every week for the entire American University campus
• Filmed Environmental Documentary
  o Camped in Tallahassee, Fl with Environmental film maker Wolfgang Obst
  o Taped alligators, snakes, vultures, and turtles

National Association of Home Builders Production Group, Washington, DC
Intern, Production Department (January 2004- May 2004)
• Researched, scanned, and selected footage for Home and Garden Television shows
• Collected interviews and photography for shows by going on shoots and filming talents
• Collaborated with producer in choices dealing with music, graphics, and voice
  inflection of talent for expanding show to a younger target audience

ADDITIONAL TELEVISION EXPERIENCE

TV Guide Channel, “Making News Savannah Style”
Subject of News Documentary (November 2007-Present)
• Followed by photographer to catch the daily life of a reporter
• Interviewed by director numerous times throughout the work day

EDUCATION

American University, Washington, DC University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Graduation 2006 (February 2005- July 2005)
BA, Broadcast Journalism; GPA 3.75/4.0
Minor: International Studies Focus: Asian Studies
Major GPA: 3.56/4.0
Cultural Education: (June 2002- Sept. 2006): Traveled across the world to more than thirty countries

AWARDS AND HONORS

National Society Collegiate Scholars, Alpha Lambda Delta, Dean’s List
(Spring 2005 and Spring 2006)

Stephanie Simoni

Savannah, GA
 (781) 856 - 3815

stephaniesimoni@gmail.com
 

 

 

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