MATT NELSON

1090 Vermont Ave. NW Suite 1000

Washington, D.C. 20008
C: 218-969-0621
maddoxnelson@gmail.com
www.mattthewriter.com
@MaddoxNelson
EMPLOYMENT
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, Washington, D.C.
Multimedia Fellow, September 2012 present
Deve|oped 14 |nteract|ve graph|cs for SHFW|re.com and the Scr|pps Howard News Serv|ce us|ng HTM|5, OSS3,
Goog|e Fus|on Tab|es, Dreamweaver, Javascr|pt (||brar|es D3, Skro||r and T|me||ne-JS}, and the Goog|e Maps APl
Reported and wrote 16 Wash|ngton news and features stor|es for the w|re serv|ce, SHFW|re.com
pdated the SHFW|re webs|te (shfw|re.com} us|ng the Drupa| OMS to support |nteract|ve graph|cs and aud|o
Taught a staff of s|x co||ege |nterns DS|R (Oanon Rebe|-T2|} photography, Adobe Prem|ere E|ements 11 v|deo
ed|t|ng, shoot|ng v|deo, Sounds||des, Audac|ty and the use of Zoom recorders w|th m|crophones
Patch.com, Des Mo|nes, lowa
Editorial intern, June 2012 August 2012
Reported and wrote 40 news and features stor|es from n|ne lowa commun|t|es
|oca||zed two break|ng nat|ona| stor|es (hea|th care be|ng uphe|d} and covered one break|ng nat|ona| story (the
announcement that the case of two m|ss|ng Evansda|e g|r|s was be|ng treated as an abduct|on}
Photographed 29 stor|es us|ng a DS|R N|kon D40
Think Magazine, Des Mo|nes, lowa
Online executive producer, January 2012 May 2012
sed HTM|5, OSS3 and Adobe Muse to create www.Th|nkDubuque.com
Managed a team of three graph|c/pr|nt des|gners and a webs|te techn|ca| d|rector
Oreated two |nteract|ve graph|cs us|ng Tumu|t Hype and one us|ng Goog|e Fus|on Tab|es
Researched and wrote one feature story for the magaz|ne
Des Moines Register, Des Mo|nes, lowa
Reporting intern, September 2010 December 2010
Reported and wrote 26 news and features stor|es
Exam|ned and reported po||ce reports on a week|y bas|s
Soudan Underground Lab, Soudan, M|nn.
Physics, graphic designer and social media intern, June 2010 August 2010
Des|gned educat|ona| mater|a|s and seven tour posters for |ab use
Gave da||y tours of an underground phys|cs |ab conduct|ng exper|ments |n neutr|nos and dark matter
Oreated the |ab`s Facebook page and created three v|deos about |ab ||fe
Trusted w|th turn|ng on a 6,000-ton stee| neutr|no detector every day
Hibbing Daily Tribune, H|bb|ng, M|nn.
Reporting/Sales intern, Summer 2007, 2008, 2009, January 2010, June 2011 July 2011
2007: Reported and wrote a seven-part 'Greatest Generat|on" ser|es about WWll veterans
2008: Reported, wrote and photographed e|ght features and one news story and worked |n c|ass|fed ads
2009: Reported, wrote and photographed 19 news stor|es, 23 features stor|es and three co|umns
2010: Reported, wrote one news and one v|deo story and created the newspaper`s Facebook page
2011: Reported, wrote seven news stor|es, seven features stor|es and shot/ed|ted two v|deo stor|es
Great Northern Radio Show, M|nnesota
Staff writer, occasional performer, August 2011 present
Wrote fve ten-m|nute comed|c sketches for fve ep|sodes of a two-hour rad|o program hosted on KAE, an NPR
member stat|on
EDUCATION
Drake University, Des Mo|nes, lowa
B.A., Journalism and Mass Communications, and School of Education
Major: News/lnternet Minor: Phys|cs
SKILLS
Web: HTM|5, OSS3, Wordpress, Drupa|, Goog|e Ana|yt|cs, FTP Multimedia: F|na| Out Pro , |Mov|e, Goog|e Maps APl,
Adobe Muse, Tumu|t Hype, Sounds||des, Audac|ty, N|kon/Oanon DS|R photography Graphic design: Adobe Oreat|ve Su|te
Programming: Python, code, Javascr|pt (D3 ||brary |nc|uded}, Dreamweaver Journalism: Report|ng, Wr|t|ng, lnterv|ew|ng