RÉSUMÉ

JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE

The Wall Street Journal, October 2009 - present, Hong Kong
Multimedia editor: manage and produce video content across Asia. Develop video strategy for audiences in different Asian countries together with online editors and bureau chiefs. Commission, conceptualize, produce, report, shoot and edit videos across all sections; give editorial guidance to freelancers and reporters; conduct video workshops with reporters (past training sessions conducted in Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong). Other duties also include special project management, web production, writing, photography and interactives.

The Wall Street Journal, July 2008 - October 2009, New York
Videographer and multimedia journalist: shoot and edit feature, analysis and breaking news videos for various sections of wsj.com, marketwatch.com and barronsonline.com; core responsibility of liaising with international bureaus on video content; conduct video workshops with reporters (past training sessions conducted in Washington D.C., Dallas, Beijing and Frankfurt); pitch and write articles and produce multimedia/flash packages for the Web Site. Worked for two weeks in the Beijing bureau on stories related to the 2008 Olympics; worked on enterprise project in Vietnam; covered presidential debate in Washington D.C. bureau.

Freelance work, June 2005 – May 2008
Freelance writer and photographer: Wrote features on culture and international affairs, including an article about the Clinton Global Initiative and the impact of tourism on the cityscape and economy of Prague. Photographic, multimedia and print publications included: WSJ.com, CBC.ca, WNBC.com, Monocle and cafebabel.com

Time Out London, June 2005 – June 2007, London
Freelance restaurant critic for the eating and drinking guides in London: Wrote for the Vietnamese chapter of the Eating and Drinking Guide in London 2006, 2007 and 2008, including an introduction and more than a dozen restaurant reviews in 2007

London Student - Europe’s Largest Student Newspaper, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007, London
Culture editor, columnist, staff writer and photographer for the London Student: Managed eight editors and laid out a 16-page pull-out bimonthly; wrote features on internet-based music labels in Europe and the commercialization of illegal street art in London

Associated Press, July 2006 - August 2006, Berlin
Intern for the international service of the Associated Press Office for six weeks: Wrote more than a dozen of published news articles and features under deadline, including articles on the restitution of a Kirchner painting, a proposal to restore parts of the Berlin Wall and a Guggenheim exhibition in Bonn

Vidicon, October 2005 – December 2005, Berlin
Intern at a production company of tv-documentaries for three months: Researched topics and wrote proposals on topics such as small businesses cropping up during the World Cup; helped with filming and editing

Frankfurter Rundschau, July 2005 – September 2005, Frankfurt
Intern at a national daily newspaperfor two months: Wrote more than 60 published news articles and longer features under pressing deadlines, including a series on Koreans in Frankfurt

Itchy City, May 2005 – June 2005, London
Intern as an editorial assistant, followed by freelance writing for UK city guides: Edited various articles and wrote a longer piece on the city of Berlin as a tourist destination

PRINZ Living Guide Magazine, July 2004 – September 2004, Frankfurt
Intern for Prinz Magazin in Frankfurt, Germany: Wrote more than twenty articles on cultural events, including a longer feature on jazz bars in Frankfurt

EDUCATION
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, May 2008 (graduated with honors as one of the top five students in the class), New York
Degree: MS Journalism (New Media)
Coursework: Reporting and Writing I (high honors), Business and Financial Reporting, New Media Newsroom (interactive multimedia applications, videos and slideshows; high honors), Computer Assisted Reporting, International Reporting (high honors), Graphics in the Newsroom, New Media Workshop (high honors), Multimedia Master's Thesis on Burmese refugees (high honors)
University College London, August 2007, London
Degree: BA German with Italian studies (First class with distinction, dean’s list of humanities and arts dep., best German BA in London)
Freie Universität Berlin, March – July 2006, Berlin
One semester abroad
Coursework: Theoretical and practical film studies

OTHER
Language Skills: Fluent in German and in spoken Vietnamese, conversant in Italian and French
Multimedia Skills: Final Cut Pro, basic Motion, Flash, Soundtrack Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere and Microsoft Office Suite, advanced use of digital SLRs, HD video camera equipment, audio recording devices and studio lighting equipment
Affiliations: Filmshop (filmmakers collective)

AWARDS
2010 Finalist for the South Asian Journalists Association Journalism Award for the multimedia project "The Rise of Rural India;" category: Outstaning business story about South Asia, or South Asians in North America: All media; role: project manager/reporter
2010 Society of Publishers in Asia Award for Editorial Excellence for the multimedia project "The Rise of Rural India"; category: Multimedia; role: project manager/reporter
2009 Audience Award for the 48 Hour Film Festival in Hong Kong; role: editor
2009 Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards: Finalist in the Multimedia Presentation Category for FromBurmatoNewYork.com; role: producer/reporter
2009 Webby Awards: winner in the student category for video (Meet We Se: A Burmese Refugee Navigates a New Country); role: producer/reporter; nominated in the travel category for video (Beijing in an Olympic Year); role: producer/reporter; Official Honoree (HIV in Vietnam) in the documentary: single episode category for video; role: producer/reporter
2008 Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship as one of the top five students of the Columbia Journalism School class of 2008
2007 Alice EmilyBithell Prize for the best performance in modem literature papers in German at BA level in London.
2007 Third Prize from the Foreign Press Association Scholarship Fund

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010 Multimedia workshop instructor for the Hong Kong International Media Conference at Hong Kong University
2009 Guest speaker on multimedia journalism at Columbia University Journalism School, New York University, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism.
2007 Workshop instructor in music production for teenagers at opera festival Unerhoert #3 in Magdeburg


ACTIVITIES
2009 Founder and organizer of Hong Kong chapter for Filmshop filmmakers collective
2008 Webmaster for Columbia University chapter of Society of Professional Journalists
2007 Organizer of University College London German Department's cultural festival in London
2006 Co-organizer of Vagina Monologues Production in Berlin
2005 Co-organizer of Generations Jazz Festival, an international music event, hosted in London

INTERESTS
Above all, I enjoy cooking anything from Vietnamese to French.
I'm also an on-and-off active musician, playing the guitar and violin, and have performed at the London Savoy as a jazz singer, at the Tacheles in Berlin with a Techno band and as a violinist in a band at South by Southwest.
Then there's soccer.


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