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Pat Brown
123 Main Street • Any City • STATE 10001
(H) (301) 555-1112 • (C) (301) 555-1111
email@gmail.com ----------------------------------- OBJECTIVE Experienced journalist with good Capitol Hill contacts is looking for a position as a political reporter for a cutting edge news magazine or web news site. SKILL SUMMARY True political animal with heavy Capitol Hill rolodex. 13 years of hard-hitting political reporting from the trenches. Super interview skills; takes no prisoners. Can travel to war zones. Fluent in German, Greek, and Hindi.WORK EXPERIENCE CAPITOL NEWS SYNDICATE
Washington, D.C.
Lead Political Reporter
May 2007 – Present Covered Armed Services and National Intelligence committees of the U.S. Senate. Interviewed the top Al Qaeda boss in Pakistan's Waziristan region. Accompanied the U.S. President on Air Force One on 6 foreign trips. Gave journalism classes at Georgetown University as Adjunct Professor of Mass Communications.UNITED REPORTERS, INC. Chevy Chase, MD
Political Reporter
August 2001 ― April 2007 Covered the invasion of Iraq as an embedded reporter with 101st Airborne Division. Uncovered corruption and nepotism in Washington City Hall. Hosted the “Sunday Roundtable” TV talk show on WTZP. Published six ground-breaking political news stories in 2005 and 2006.WASHINGTON HERALD JOURNAL
Washington, D.C.
Reporter and Copy Editor
June 1996 ― August 2001 Provided live coverage of the 2000 Republican National Convention. Reported from the court house and on the crime beat. Edited wire and publication copy.EDUCATION University of Miami, Dept. of Mass Communications Miami, FLBachelor of Arts in Mass Communications May 1995 MEMBERSHIP Member, Society for War Correspondents, Washington, D.C.,
2002 ― present REFERENCES available upon request.
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