LAUREN KIRSCHMAN EXPERIENCE



Award-winning content creator and journalist 

SPORTS WRITER, UW HUSKIES
The News Tribune, Seattle, Wa., 2018 — Present

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Comprehensively cover University of Washington men’s
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basketball and football
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▪ Plan daily coverage and identify key storylines

that will most resonate with readers

▪ Build relationships and interview key figures in

order to produce creative stories, features and
personality profiles

JOURNALISM AWARDS ▪ Analyze analytics to understand the content that

NATIONAL 
 drives traffic and attracts new subscribers

1st Place, Personality Profile ▪ Appear on radio shows and podcasts, including
Inland Press Association, 2016
 710 ESPN Seattle and 950 KJR

Top 10, Feature Stories


Associated Press Sports Editors, 2015 SPORTS WRITER, FEATURES & NFL
PennLive.com, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2016 – 2018

STATE

Successfully expanded coverage into Pittsburgh by

1st place, Sports Feature
 evaluating the audience and producing content that
Pa. Associated Press Managing Editors, 2016
 generated interest in a competitive market
Pa. Associated Press Managing Editors, 2015
▪ Covered Pittsburgh-area sports with a focus on
1st Place, Sports Story

the Pittsburgh Steelers

Keystone Press 2015


▪ Told the story of the people an NFL player
Keystone Press, 2016 helped and inspired during his fight with cancer

REGIONAL
 ▪ Ran social media accounts, including optimizing

content, building and monitoring ad campaigns
1st place, Newspaper Sports Feature

and producing live posts

Pittsburgh Black Media Foundation, 2016


▪ Worked with a team to plan and execute long-
1st place, Sports Article or Series
 term projects, social media strategy and SEO

Western Pennsylvania Golden Quills, 2015

COLLEGIATE
 SPORTS WRITER, FEATURES

Beaver County Times, Beaver, Pa., 2012 – 2016
Koberlein Award for Excellence in Journalism

Covered major college athletics while also producing
The Pitt News, 2012
award-winning features



EDUCATION
 ▪ Wrote engaging features on a variety of
University of Pittsburgh, summa cum laude
 subjects, including a nationally award-winning
Bachelor of the Arts, English Writing — 2012
 story on a Congolese soccer player

Bachelor of the Arts, Communications — 2012
 ▪ Provided coverage of major college athletics
with a focus on original angles and strong
storytelling

SKILLS 

Adobe Creative Suite, blogging, Blox CMS, SPORTS REPORTER, HIGH SCHOOL
CrowdTangle, Cue, editing, Facebook Live, feature Citizen of Laconia, Laconia, N.H., 2012

writing, HTML, iPhone video, Keynote, Microsoft Produced stories on a variety of topics, edited copy and
Office, Movable Type, Parse.ly, proofreading, 
 designed the sports section

public speaking, Quark Xpress, research, 


SEO, SocialFlow, social media, storytelling
▪ Covered high school athletics and sought out
stories that would attract a broad audience
▪ Planned and designed the sports section using
Quark Xpress and Photoshop