Mary Pinckney Waters :: Multimedia Journalist

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MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST
Mary Pinckney Waters
MARYPWATERS@YAHOO.COM

PROFESSIONAL
USA TODAY :: copy-editing intern for the Money section, summer 2004 // CINGULAR WIRELESS ELECTION CONNECTION :: reporter for a moblog sponsored by Cingular and the University of South Carolina’s Newsplex covering the Democratic National Convention, summer 2004 // BLOGABROAD :: author, photographer of a blog for USC during my study abroad // BIKE WEEK CONVERGENCE JOURNALISM PROJECT :: reporter for various media covering Myrtle Beach’s Bike Week in a project sponsored by Newsplex, the (Florence) Morning News and WBTW // MEDIA MAYMESTER :: creator of a documentary film on the changing German university system, in conjunction with the University of Television and Film Munich, and teaching assistant for an integrated marketing team promoting study abroad for journalism students, spring 2007.

STUDENT MEDIA
THE HORNET, YEARBOOK :: designer, writer, 1999-2001; editor in chief, 2001-2002 // THE GAMECOCK, NEWSPAPER :: writer, copy editor, spring 2003-fall 2004; designer, editorial cartoonist; photographer, summer 2004 // THE GARNET&BLACK, MAGAZINE :: copy editor, designer, writer, fall 2003-fall 2004; editor in chief, fall 2004-spring 2005.

AWARDS
JOURNALISTIC :: Pacemaker national finalist for the April 2005 issue of Garnet & Black student magazine under my editorship // first place for front-page newspaper layout in the collegiate division of the South Carolina Press Association awards, 2003 // Outstanding Senior Award for Visual Communications from USC's School of Journalism and Mass Communications, 2007 // Mary Lou Barlow Journalism Award, 2002 // Prentiss Courson Journalism Scholarship, 2002 // Henry T. Price Award for Outstanding Student Copy Editing, 2003 // USC School of Journalism Scholarship, 2003-2005 // George A. Buchanan Journalism Scholarship, 2005 // USC women's leadership award, 2005 // ACADEMIC :: Palmetto Fellows Scholarship, 2002-2006 // University Scholars Scholarship 2002-2004 // Dollars for Scholars Scholarship, 2002-2003 // GERMAN :: Goethe Institute for students whose German-speaking skills approximate the native pronunciation, 2003.

HONORS
National Society of Collegiate Scholars membership, 2003-2004 // USC Leadership Council, fall 2004-spring 2005 // Michael J. Mungo teaching award selection committee, 2005 // Society of Professional Journalists board member, 2005.

GPA
4.0.

COMPUTER
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker, Quark, Motion, Final Cut Pro, iDVD, Dreamweaver.

LANGUAGE
student of German for eight years, score of 5 (of 5) on the Advanced Placement German Language Exam, 2002 // score in the top 90th percentile on the National German Exam, 2001 // student for a month at the Institut für die Deutsche Sprache und Kultur in Wittenberg, Germany, 2003 // student at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, for two semesters, 2005-2006 // participant in tandem program with the University of Television and Film Munich, summer 2007.

EDUCATION
AIKEN HIGH SCHOOL :: graduated Magna Cum Laude, 2002 // OTTO-FRIEDRICH UNIVERSITÄT, GERMANY :: exchange program, 2005-2006 // UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA :: graduated with a B.A. in Visual Communications with a minor in German, fall 2006.

JOBS
MALIA'S RESTAURANT, AIKEN, S.C. :: hostess and busgirl, 2000-2001; server, summer 2002 // OTTO-FRIEDRICH UNIVERSITÄT, GERMANY :: teacher and office assistant in the English Department, fall 2005-spring 2006.