Topher Forhecz

571.236.4067 | forheczt@gmail.com www.topherforhecz.com

Experience

Intern with WNYC, NPR member station, New York City, N.Y. (Sept. 2013Dec. 2013) ! Conducted interviews and research for the business desk and the podcast New Tech City. ! Helped create games and interactive content for the website. Intern with WGCU, NPR member station, Fort Myers, Fla. (June 2013-Aug. 2013) ! Wrote readers for daily newscasts. ! Reported and produced spots and features. ! Attended news meetings and worked one-on-one with the news director. Intern with Heritage Radio Network, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Feb. 2013May 2013) ! Created promos, clip reels and music compilations for shows. ! Helped update the website during shows. Staff Writer for The Gazette Newspaper, Gaithersburg, Md. (Aug. 2010-May 2012) ! Wrote four to seven articles each week for the weekly Post Co.-owned paper about local arts and entertainment events across three counties. Regular Contributor to The Washington Post Express, Washington, D.C. (July 2009-Aug. 2010) ! Wrote three to seven articles each month about local arts and culture events in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Features Editor for the Virginia Tech student-run daily, The Collegiate Times, Blacksburg, Va. (Aug. 2009-April 2010) ! Assigned local entertainment pieces, human-interest profiles and columns to a team of journalists. Intern with Express (May 2009-Aug. 2009) ! Attended daily budget meetings and worked with multiple editors to prepare content. ! Updated the weekly Top Stops events blog. ! Properly formatted and posted content to the website using HTML, Movable Type Web Publisher, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. Features Writer for The Collegiate Times (Aug. 2008-April 2009) ! Had more than 60 articles published by writing two articles each week that required a minimum of three sources per article and a weekly humor column.

Education Skills

M.A. in Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Dec. 2013 B.A. in English, Virginia Tech, May 2010 Final Cut Pro X, Hype, Reaper, Pro Tools, Audacity, Movable Type Web Publisher, WordPress, Social Media, HTML, CSS, Zeega, Lexis Nexis, Google Maps, Photoshop, Adobe Audition, Marantz Recorders, TASCAM Recorders, Multiple In-House Content Management Systems, Core Publisher