Erin Kelly

Address: 6340 N. Winthrop Ave, Chicago

Phone: (224) 234-4603

Email: ekelly4@luc.edu

Twitter: @Erin_Kelly27

Linkedin: Erin Kelly

Reporter and designer

Experience

Skills

Some knowledge

The Phoenix

Design Editor and Writer: August 2014- Present

Adobe InDesign

Design five pages per week with a focus on creativity and

modular design. Write timely hard news, features and opinion
stories for the weekly student newspaper at Loyola, a private
university with 16,000 students.

Adobe
Photoshop

Lake County Suburban Life

Freelance Reporter: June 2014- July 2014
Pitched and wrote in-depth, hyper-local feature articles for the
weekly Lake County newspaper.

The Chronicle

Expert

CMS
AP Style
Adobe
Illustrator
Microsoft Word
Photography

News Editor and Reporter: Sept. 2013- May 2014

Edited news stories for grammar, objectivity, clarity and brevity
for the biweekly student newspaper at the College of Lake
County, a community college with 18,000 students. Also wrote
news stories about administration, school policy and students.

State Bank of the Lakes

Teller: Sept. 2012- July 2014

Fostered interpersonal communication skills, processed and

double-checked transactions for accuracy and persistently
learned the complexities of banking.

The Talon Times

Editor-in-Chief: Aug. 2011- May 2012

Edited 12-16 page newspaper, assigned stories, oversaw design
and photography, wrote administration beat, hired editors, sold
advertisements and oversaw distribution for the monthly paper
at Lakes Community High School, a public school with 1,500
students.

Awards in numbers

2nd
4th
17

Place News Story for Radioactive

published December 2013 in The
Chronicle. Award presented by the
Illinois Community College Journalism
Association, a regionally based
organization that employs professional
journalists to critique work.
Place Story of the Year for Tampering
published December 2011 in The Talon
Times. Award presented by the National
Scholastic Press Association, a national
organization in high school journalism.

People were contacted to report these two

stories. Nine people agreed to interviews.

Education

Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: Began Aug. 2014: Tentative gradation May 2016

Coursework includes: Introduction to Design, Writing for the Web and Broadcast News. Introduction to Design has vastly improved
my InDesign and Photoshop skills. Web Writing and Broadcast News have stressed the importance of brevity.

The College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL: Graduated in 2014 with Associates in Arts and 3.9 GPA
Degree focused in communications. Phi Theta Kappa honors society member.

Lakes Community High School, Lake Villa, IL: Graduated in 2012