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kharijohnson@gmail.

com

kjohnsonmedia.com

2014 Community Manager


Scoopshot
2014

Editor
Through the Cracks

2010-14

Local Editor
Patch, AOL

2009-10

Contributor
SDNN.com

2009

Video Producer

2008

Metro Intern

2007

Metro Intern

Media Arts Center of San Diego

South Florida Sun Sentinel

Colorado Springs Gazette

2005-7
Fact Checker
Business 2.0 Magazine

Khari Johnson
Lahdensivuntie 35 as. 5, Hmeenlinna, Finland +358-40-356-3991 kharijohnson@gmail.com
kjohnsonmedia.com
Editor at Through the Cracks: Crowdfunding in Journalism from 08/2014 to present
Assign stories to contributors, monitor crowdfunding platforms and report on innovative or successful crowdfunding
campaigns to inhibit journalism and storytelling
Community manager at Scoopshot in Helsinki, Finland from 09/2014 to present
Create tasks for a global community of smartphone photographers, curate photos, promote select content in social
media and interact with users of the crowdsourcing app
Local editor at Patch (AOL/HuffPost Media Group) from 08/2010 to 01/2014 in Imperial Beach and La Mesa,
Calif.
Report breaking news and general assignment stories, work with freelancers and other editors, manage social media
accounts, respond to reader calls and emails and moderate website activity and user generated content
Video producer at The Peoples Post (A Media Arts of San Diego, Knight Foundation and voiceofsandiego.org
partnership) from 04/2010 to 08/2010 in San Diego, Calif.
Shot, edited and published 3-minute videos about people or issues featured in voiceofsandiego.org articles
Contributing writer at SDNN.com from 09/2009 to 06/2010 in San Diego, Calif.
Reported politics, sports and arts stories with elements of writing, photography and video
Editorial intern at South Florida Sun Sentinel (Tribune Company) from 06/2008 to 08/2008 in Delray
Beach, Fla.
Metro and Online desks covering breaking news, events and pitching enterprise stories; one of two reporters
dispatched by the newspaper to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention
Writing Coach/Researcher at Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism from 09/2007 to
05/2008 in San Francisco, Calif.
Writing coach for Mission High School newspaper; as a researcher compiled the Native American Journalism
Associations Reading Red Report
Editorial intern at Colorado Springs Gazette (Freedom Comm.) from 05/2007 to 08/2007 in Colorado
Springs, Colo.
Metro Desk coverage of breaking news, events and pitching enterprise stories
Editorial intern at Business 2.0 Magazine (Time Inc.) from 01/2005 to 05/2007 in San Francisco, Calif.
Some magazine writing but primarily worked with editors and reporters to fact check stories and other content
EDUCATION
B.A. Journalism with emphasis in print and online, Political Science minor, San Francisco State University, 2008
Reported from Denmark, France, Holland, Italy and Turkey with a multinational team of journalists for Europe in
the World international journalism program from fall 2005 to spring 2006 at Hogeschool Utrecht in Holland and
the Danish School of Media and Journalism
SKILLS
Reporter, photographer and video producer with years of experience in building audience with social media and
community engagement. Trained to use various web-based widgets and tools and FinalCut Pro, Microsoft Office,
iLife and some Adobe Creative Suite programs

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