Jillian Kremer

Deputy editor of online, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

July 2017 - present

• Assigned, edited, wrote breaking-news stories and Web updates for state's largest newspaper

• Increased Facebook likes by 60 percent and Twitter traffic by 171 percent in one year

• Curated and sent daily newsletters with audience of more than 100,000

Online news editor, August 2015 - July 2017

Copy editor, September 2014 - August 2015

• Wrote headlines that appeared in business, 1A, local sections

• Compiled and updated international, national stories, briefs

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Copy editor, The Victoria Advocate

​October 2012 - September 2014

Wrote headlines; edited news, features and sports stories and cutlines for grammar, accuracy and style; main copy editor for Sunday A1 sections; lead fact-checker for two longer form series; contributed to weekly entertainment section; updated website in content management system; monitored social media

 

Copy editing intern, Dow Jones Newswires

May 2012 - August 2012

Copy edited and fact-checked 14-25 stories a day about market and corporate news, mainly in the Americas; tagged stories for content and routed them to proper wires; contributed to The Wall Street Journal’s Webby Award-nominated culture blog, Speakeasy

 

Associate editor, University of Florida alumni publications

​September 2011 - April 2012

Helped manage two of the country’s biggest alumni magazines; responsible for compiling front-of-the-book news section; wrote headlines, profiles, features; corresponded with freelancers

• Editorial Intern, September 2008 to April 2011

Wrote stories on everything from an almost century-year-old biscuit to girls who created a line of soy underwear; gained experience in the entire publication process; copy edited and proofed pages

 

Editor-in-chief, Orange & Blue Magazine

January 2012 - April 2012

Managed staff of 20 in production of University of Florida campus magazine and digital edition; edited for style and theme; supervised design, photography, content and multimedia

 

Blogs editor, The Independent Florida Alligator

January 2012 - April 2012

Edited 14 lifestyle and four news blogs for largest student-run newspaper in the country; wrote SEO headlines; uploaded to content management system

• Copy Editor, September 2011 to December 2011

Copy edited and fact-checked stories and cutlines; wrote headlines; proofed pages

 

Intern, Bleacher Report

May 2011 - August 2011

Edited and fact-checked 45 stories a week on everything from WWE fan fiction to international sports news for the country’s fourth-largest sports media website