Jenny Redden

118 E. 31st St., Apt. B, Tulsa, OK 74105 405-488-4985 jenny.redden@gmail.com

Experience Education
Tulsa World Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Okla.
Satellite Adviser.................................................................................. September –­­ January Spring 2008 graduate
• Mentored 60 high school students through Satellite, the nation’s leading teen section • 3.8 cumulative GPA
• Worked with beginning reporters, photographers and illustrators in news-editorial journalism
• Edited teen copy, offering feedback and constructive criticism with a minor in Spanish
• Transformed Web site from static, shoveled product to dynamic, daily updated site • Named Top News-Editorial
• Led weekly meetings to brainstorm, discuss and assign stories, art and illustrations Senior in 2008
• Coordinated recruiting, training and marketing for the program
• Oversaw production of section’s layout, collaborating with World staff page designer
• Wrote feature stories for the World’s Scene section and Spot magazine Skills
The Daily O’Collegian Reporting, four years
Editing, three years
Editor-in-Chief....................................................................................................... Fall 2007 Management, three years
• Managed nearly 100 employees at the university’s student-run daily newspaper Layout and design, two years
• Worked to elevate previously neglected Web site, ocolly.com, to comprehensive Web, one year
college communications device
• Managed $8,000-a-month budget
• Implemented “O’Colly Boot Camp,” a three-day training workshop for editors
• Sought professionals to mentor staff after O’Collegian adviser retired Other experience
• Served as public face of the O’Collegian
• Worked at least 40 hours per week as a full-time student Lab Instructor, 2007-08
Media Style and Structure
Managing Editor............................................................... August 2005 — December 2006 Taught more than 50 students
• Determined news content for the O’Collegian
during weekly lab sections
• Coordinated all sections of the newspaper and oversaw content in each
of introductory writing course.
• Managed a staff of 30 student reporters
• Edited stories for content before they went to copy desk
• Instituted weekly writers’ meetings to create cohesion and team mentality
Projects Reporter.............................................................................................. Spring 2008 References
• Investigated university cell phone policy, which might evade state open-records law
Barbara Allen
• Evaluated OSU regents’ compliance of open-meeting law
Tulsa World
• Covered new university President Burns Hargis
Assistant Scene editor
• Wrote features about personalities within community and breaking news as needed
315 S. Boulder Ave.
• Also worked as features editor, police reporter and staff writer during college tenure
Tulsa, OK 74103
918-581-8480
Internships barbara.allen@tulsaworld.com

The Chronicle of Higher Education.......................................................Summer 2008 Susan Ellerbach

• Compiled information for salary database of community college presidents Tulsa World
for Chronicle’s annual publication Managing editor
• Wrote stories for the Chronicle’s Web site 315 S. Boulder Ave.
Student Press Law Center.......................................................................... Summer 2007 Tulsa, OK 74103
• Wrote breaking stories for the advocacy group’s Web site 918-581-8329
susan.ellerbach@tulsaworld.com
• Spent summer writing articles for the Washington, D.C.-based group’s magazine
• Selected to write exclusive story about Fairfax (Va.) Public Schools’ expression
Joey Senat
policy when confidential documents were forwarded to SPLC director
OSU journalism professor
Tulsa World..................................................................................................... Summer 2006 206 Paul Miller — OSU
• Copy edited and wrote headlines for local and wire stories for the news section Stillwater, OK 74078
• Wrote stories for the City Desk 405-744-8277
• Designed inside pages of the news section using Coyote joey.senat@okstate.edu