Kelly OBrien

(978) 270-5634
Kellyaobrien531@gmail.com
Professional Experience
News7 Lyndonville, Vermont 05851
January 2013 - Present

LSCTVs award winning news organization provides twice-daily live newscasts of

local and regional news and weather via cable to over 9,000 subscribers in rural
northeastern Vermont and northern New Hampshire. The News 7 operation is
driven entirely by Lyndons Electronic Journalism Arts majors with limited
oversight by EJA faculty. The station is a CNN award school affiliate, subscribes
to the Associated Press news service and students utilize Avid iNews, Avid
NewsCutter and the Panasonic P2, and AVCHD formats to produce each
newscast.
o

Director- Responsible for coordinating all production support and assisted with
crafting a rundown for a live nightly newscast.

Technical Director- Switched live newscast using Kayak DD Grass Valley

VideoJournalist- Finding and developing a story. Make contact and edit

story together.

News Photographer- Shoot and edit stories daily for our live
broadcasts. Can meet a hard deadline in a high stress area.

Graphic Designer-Design graphics for live broadcast using Photoshop.

NewsLINC Lyndonville, Vermont 05851

September 2013 December 2013

NewsLINC is the online media extension of the Department of Electronic

Journalism Arts award-winning News 7 operation. NewsLINC offers advanced EJA
students the opportunity to hone their newsgathering skills in a web-based
environment. Students produce stories collaboratively for the website
www.News7newsLINC.net with fellow reporters and photographers from News 7.
The goal of this initiative is to build and maintain a community eJournalism
website for the greater NEK community to use as a source for local news.
o Web Reporter sought and contributed additional material to support
repurposed broadcast stories. Researched and produced enterprise
stories for assigned tourism and economy beat. Converted and
compressed video clips for posting to website.
o Web Producer- assigning stories to our web staff coorelating to our
evening broadcast. Also using Socia Media to get content to veiwers
faster.

Kingdom Access Television, St. Johnsbury, VT,05819

May 2012 - May 2014
Worked with KATV in filming Lyndon States Graduation and Kwanis Auction, over
the years progressed from working the camera on a scaffold to overseeing
everything and working as the director/technical director.
Lyndon State College Lyndonville, Vermont 05851
Anticipated May 2015

Bachelor of Science, Electronic Journalism Arts with concentration in broadcast design

and production.
References
David Ballou, Retired Professor, Lyndon State College
802-626-6371

Darlene Ballou, Director of Broadcast Operations

802.626.6490

Donna Smith, Assistant Professor, Lyndon State College

802-626-4846

Meaghan Meacham Assistant Professor, Co-Chair Electronic Journalism Arts

802-626-6228