Robert Patten

Education

Bachelor of Arts, English

Brigham Young University–Idaho

• Spanish Minor

• 3.72 GPA

Experience

Standard Journal (newspaper in Rexburg, Idaho) July 2006 – present

• News/Web editor (July 2007 – present)

• Designed front page

• Supervised newsroom in absence of managing editor

• Helped reporters gather information for and write articles

• Trained new editors

• In charge of updating newspaper's Web site

• Taught staff how to edit news videos

• Features editor (December 2006 – July 2007)

• Found and wrote material for feature pages

• Supervised and motivated high school writers and artists

• Paginated feature page, inside pages

• Juggled editing and paginating responsibilities with part-time reporting

• Reporter/photographer (July 2006 – December 2006)

• Covered city and county government, schools, and emergency services

• Part-time office manager at bureau

Full-time Missionary in Cherry Hill, New Jersey March 2001 – March 2003

• Served in leadership positions to coordinate the efforts and develop skills of other missionaries

• Taught English to Spanish-speakers

Skills

• Fluent in Associated Press style

• Expert in Adobe InDesign; skilled in Photoshop and Flash

• Competent in digital video editing

• Type 80 wpm

Awards and accomplishments

• Part of newsroom that won corporation's (Pioneer Newspapers) Recognizing Excellence award (2010)

• First place in Personal Column (2009), Editorial (2009) and Features Writing (2007) categories from the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association

• Co-wrote play Skipping Christmas Eve in 2006; was performed by youth at Roxy Theater in St. Anthony, Idaho

• Presented research and analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the 2005 National Undergraduate Literature Conference