TONY RUSSELL // VETERAN TV REPORTER & DIGITAL JOURNALIST

Skills: Live television reporting field/studio, Adobe Premiere 5.5, Final Cut Pro, Grass Valley Edius, Avid Newscutter, Bitcentral/OASIS, Panasonic HPX-370, Sony PMW-320/350 ENG Camera, Sony EX-3, Adobe Audition, Cool Edit Pro, Jutel Radio Man, Avid Newscutter, Avid iNews, AP ENPS,WorldNow, Internet Broadcasting Web Publisher, Accelerated Media Technologies Horizon DT microwave/SNG truck, TEC microwave truck. Dejero, TVU and LiveU.

Work Experience:

• Nightside Reporter, KJRH-TV, Tulsa, OK, April 2017 to January 2019 .
Nightside reporter covering daily turn and enterprise assignments. I cover breaking news, weather and several metro beats.

• Deployed with the corporate disaster response ‘jump team’ for Hurricane Irma coverage in 2017. Hurricane coverage made national news on NBC News “Today” when a dolphin was rescued on Marco Island, Fla.
• First Tulsa station and reporter to respond to the Duck Boat tragedy on Table Rock Lake in Summer 2018.

• Senior Nightside Reporter, KOTV-TV, Tulsa, OK, May 2013 to Feb 2017 .
Nightside reporter covering daily turn and enterprise assignments for a top CBS affiliate in a metro market. Managed three metro beats and political beats.

• Reporter, KHBS/KHOG-TV, Fort Smith, AR, March 2011 to May 2013.
Multimedia journalist covered live nightside and weekday morning show assignments.

• Video Journalist, WMBF-TV, Myrtle Beach, SC, May 2010 to August 2010
Newscast editor, fill-in reporter.

• Intern, CBS News, Washington, D.C., Summer 2009
I worked with the producers and reporters at CBS Evening News Weekend Edition. I worked with CBS Radio National correspondents, researched stories and booked guests for interviews.

• Intern, CBS Radio Affiliate KMOX-AM, Saint Louis, MO, Winter 2008
Worked in the KMOX Newsroom. I learned to write and file stories for the hourly newscasts. I also conducted interviews for radio news stories.

• Intern, Fox News Channel, Washington, D.C., Summer 2008
Worked with the senior producer for the U.S. House of Representatives. Worked at the D.C. Bureau Booking Unit and assisted correspondents.

Education:

University of Mississippi Oxford, MS Bachelor of Arts, December 2010, Major:
Journalism (Broadcast) Minor: French
Awards and Activities: 2017 Oklahoma Assocation of Broascasters Spot News: Wildfire Coverage (station). Arkansas Associated Press Awards: 2011, 2012. The Fund for
American Studies Journalism Fellow (2014). The Fund for American Studies 2008 Summer
Institute on Political Journalism. Mississippi Association of Broadcasters: 2008 Silver Award.

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