Resume
Experience
National Catholic Reporter
Bertelsen Intern
Chicago, IL
July 2020 — July 2021
Daily Orange
Staff Writer
Syracuse, NY
August 2016 — May 2020
Report and write news, features and long-form investigative pieces for independent nonprofit biweekly covering Catholic institutions
Copy-edit and publish wire stories in CMS for digital site
Select photos and write news briefs for print edition
Post and promote content on Facebook and Twitter
Work in state news and data beats at award-winning student newspaper
Cover campus events, local politics, and state legislation
Create data visualizations and shoot photos for print and digital
Write features on local businesses, county politicians, and campus staff
Investigative Reporting Workshop
Dow Jones News Fund Data Intern
Washington, DC
June 2019 — August 2019
Cleaned business license data using SQL for Accountability Project
Conducted research for Frontline and Washington Post reporters using LexisNexis, court records, and trade databases
Interviewed activists for background information and scheduling
Wrote legislative timelines and newsletters
Completed IRE/NICAR boot camp in Excel, SQL, and R
PublicSource
Editorial Intern
Pittsburgh, PA
May 2018 — August 2018
Reported and wrote two long-form stories on racial hiring discrimination and parking policy for local journalism website
Helped cover police brutality protests on deadline
Conducted "person on the street" interviews for social media
Fact-checked stories by other reporters
Researched and analyzed data using online databases and Excel
Education.
Syracuse University: S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
B.S. in Newspaper/Online Journalism; B.A. in Sociology
GPA: 4.0
Renée Crown Honors College
NCAA DI Cross Country Team
Skills.
Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word
SQL, R
Fluent Spanish (Speaking/Writing)
Adobe InDesign, Premiere, Lightroom
LexisNexis
Fact-checking and AP Style
Awards.
1st Place: Hearst Features Writing
2021 Dan Rather Medal for News and Guts
Archbold-Day Scholarship
2019 Student-Athlete Award
Heather Fleischmann Memorial Scholarship
2018, 2019 Cuse Scholar Award
2019 ACP General News Photo Honorable Mention
2017 NCAA DI All-Academic Team
Contact.
mdavison@syr.edu
LinkedIn: madeleine-davison-944174149