CANDICE JADE NORWOOD candicenorwood.com • cjnorwood13@gmail.com • @cjnorwoodwrites • Washington, DC

EXPERIENCE: Vox.com Jan. 2016 – Present Washington, D.C. | News website; around 22 million unique visitors/ month Race & Identities Intern • Report, write news stories and explainers on race, gender and identity topics • Write headlines and web blurbs; select images and graphics for web stories Washington Post Sept. 2015 – Dec. 2015 Washington, D.C. | Daily newspaper; total average circulation: 474,767 Local Desk Intern • Reported, wrote 1-2 breaking news stories, blurbs or features per week covering D.C. courts, public safety and community events • Assisted with researching and gathering content for print and online stories C-SPAN (T-Howard.org) June 2015 – Aug. 2015 Washington, D.C. | Nonprofit television network for public affairs programs International Programming Intern • Selected to participate in the T. Howard Foundation Internship Program • Logged video of foreign, domestic events for online and on-air broadcast • Assisted with researching and editing video, graphics and on-air scripts • Coordinated production reports for foreign and domestic programs • Participated in a 2½ -day professional development orientation NPR Jan. 2015 – May 2015 Washington, D.C. | Public multimedia distributor; 26 million weekly listeners Editorial Intern for NPR Education • Researched, pitched, wrote web stories covering national education issues • Converted radio scripts into text stories for the NPR website • Participated in professional development, radio production training • Assisted reporters with gathering, editing content used for radio segments Newsday June 2013 – Aug. 2013 Long Island | Daily newspaper; total average circulation: 377,744 Long Island Desk Intern • Wrote 30 breaking news, general assignment, feature stories and blurbs • Covered local government, cops, courts, human interest and other topics • Pitched ideas, worked with photo and video teams to produce packages SPECIAL PROJECTS: “Ferguson’s Fault Lines: The Race Quake That Rocked A Nation” Book released by the American Bar Association in April 2016 Co-Author • Wrote a 16-page chapter analyzing bias in the news coverage of notable deaths of black men including Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin Matters of the Mind Jan. 2015 – May 2015 A collaboration project between American University and NBC Washington Managing Editor, themillennialminds.com • Oversaw 17 reporters and editors as part of a semester-long, multimedia web project covering mental health among the millennial generation • Developed, assigned, edited content featured on NBCWashington.com “Slices of Life,” edited by Walt Harrington Spring 2013 Student anthology published by the News-Gazette in Central Illinois Co-Author • Reported, wrote a 1,700-word feature story as part of a literary feature class

EDUCATION: American University | May 2016 • M.A. International Media — media production & international relations • Spring 2016 graduate student

commencement speaker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | May 2013 • B.S. News-Editorial Journalism SKILLS: Digital and Web: • Social media, WordPress, other CMS, HTML, CSS, SEO, data visualization Software and Multimedia: • Adobe: Photoshop, Premiere, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Audition • Apple: Final Cut Pro, Aperture • Audacity audio editing and recording • DSLR photo, video • Data Analysis: Qualtrics, SPSS Language and Style: • Spanish professional proficiency, AP Style, Research: APA, MLA INTERNATIONAL WORK: The Community of Madrid Sept. 2013 – June 2014 | Madrid, Spain • Prepared daily lessons about English grammar, vocabulary and American culture for Spanish-speaking students • Advised 12 students for a national high school journalism competition: “El País de los Estudiantes” CEGRI Institute of Higher Learning Jan. 2012 – May 2012 | Granada, Spain • Completed Spanish minor REFERENCES: Michelle Garcia, Vox.com Senior Editor, Race & Identities michelle@vox.com Steve Drummond, NPR Senior Editor, NPR Education sdrummond@npr.org Jonelle Henry, C-SPAN Producer, International Programming jhenry@c-span.org