Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Jessica films and produces Web videos, assists with social media strategy and development, designs websites and blogs about all things related to social media, technology, journalism and public relations. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis on all things new media.

I love to meet and connect with new people. Please don't hesitate to drop me a message here, an email at jmalnik@gmail.com or tweet me (@jessicamalnik). Let's connect.

Specialties
My specialties include social media management and monitoring, video editing, storytelling, HTML, CSS, website and social media analytics, blogging, email marketing, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Adobe Audition, Soundslides, In Design and Wordpress.

Work History

• Freelance
• Web and Social Media Consultant
• January 2010 to Present

• -Assist in the creation and development of long term social media strategies on Twitter, Facebook Fan Pages and Youtube.
  -Create blog posts and Web videos
  -Design and critique websites

• WCJB/TV20
• Associate Producer/Weekend Assignment Editor
• January 2010 to June 2010

• -Wrote, edited and posted news stories and videos on wcjb.com
  -Wrote scripts and edited packages and VOSOTs for news casts using Final Cut Pro
  -Planned weekend stories, made beat calls and monitored the scanners
  -Internal newsroom Twitter trainer

• Columbia Missourian
• Multimedia and Copy Editor
• January 2008 to December 2009

• -Wrote and edited news stories and headlines
  -Made audio slideshows, created Flash graphics, and shot and edited video
  -edited hard news, feature and sports stories for AP style, grammar, spelling and "the big picture"
  -Used SEO best practices to write Web headlines and meta-descriptions for news stories
  -Worked on a long form multimedia series, which includes high-quality long-form radio stories and Web videos

• Jekyll Island Authority
• Interactive Marketing Coordinator
• July 2010 to January 2011

• -Shoot photos and film and produce videos for jekyllisland.com
  -Plan social media strategies for website, mobile campaigns, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter
  -Write, edit and post content on the Jekyll Island blog (using Wordpress)
  -Completed a major redesign of jekyllisland.com
  -Design and write email blasts and banner ads

Education

• University of Missouri
• Bachelor's Degree, convergence journalism, minor in history
• 2006 - 2009