Oliver

Morrison
omorrison.com | Morrison.oliver@gmail.com
802 Fabrique St. / Wichita, KS 67218 | 206-643-9731

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise/ Breaking News 2015 2017
The Wichita Eagle| Wichita, KS
Enterprise stories routinely lead website in engagement and are featured above the fold on Sundays.
Regular beats include immigration, education, race and science/environment. Sub-beats in arts, politics and policing.
Many stories picked up nationally including coverage of mass shooting, elections, earthquakes, wildfires and immigration.
Wildfire coverage routinely shared among state firefighters and was cited by politicians pushing for a statewide audit.
Shoot and edit video features, with more than 100,000 views of a protest video, and 100,000 views of wildfires.
Collaborated with KMUW, local public radio and led Hearken, crowd-sourcing experiment called Curious Wichita.
Used data tools to report about everything from traffic tickets and homelessness to city salaries and professional football.
Drew on educator background to teach workshops on mapping, social media reporting and shooting videos.

Freelance reporter 2013 - 2015
Various| New York, New York
Two feature articles in the Atlantic led the website in February 2015 and were recommended by NYTimes.com and Longform.
Two week reporting fellowship for Starnes Publishing in Birmingham, Alabama focused on education / community reporting.
Feature article in Education Week on the decline of school libraries and contributor for the comedy vertical Splitsider.
CityLimits/Bronx covered the mayoral race, CitiBike expansion, electric taxi woes, community boards and adult education.
Feature articles for NYPress / local publications on businesses, non-profits, artists, events and community issues.

News Intern Summer 2014
Chalkbeat Tennessee | Memphis, TN
Covered the historic rush to open six largely affluent, white suburban districts and separate from black Memphis schools.
Featured on local public television for reporting on preschool funding, and on public radio for suburban school reports.
One feature article on a high school poet more than tripled the previous highest total number of views on the website.

Teacher / Activities Director 2005 - 2012
KIPP Delta Public Schools / Teach for America| Arkansas
Directed the afterschool arts and athletic programs for KIPP, including staff, budget, logistics, compliance and planning.
Taught English and speech/drama in Eudora and Lake Village districts, coached basketball, directed plays.
Project manager of historic theater renovation, wrote grants, coordinated with local theater companies and artists.
Taught English / Speech / Drama / Journalism, and founded basketball and drama programs for KIPP.

Editor / Founder 2003 - 2005
The Newt | Oxford, England
Founder, publisher, editor, reporter, columnist and theater critic for New Colleges bi-weekly student paper.

AWARDS

Kansas Press Association Awards of Excellence x4: Health, Environment, Public notices Feb. 2017
Hearken Champions of Curiosity Awards, Non-traditional story award Dec. 2016
Kansas City Heart of America Awards, Feature Writing, Business Reporting 2016/2017
Kansas Press Association Awards of Excellence, Environment reporting Feb. 2016
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Alumni award for urban beat reporting May 2016

EDUCATION RELEVANT SKILLS

University of Oxford, B.A. 2002-2005 Video: Final Cut X / Adobe, Canon C100, Videoliscious
Graduated First Class / highest honors Audio: Reaper / Pro-tools / Adobe Audition
Philosophy, Politics and Economics Audio: Marantz, Zoom, shotgun/lavs/cardioids/wireless
. Photo: Sony RX-100, Canon 70D/C100, Lightroom
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, M.A. 2013-2014 Audience: Google Analytics, Chartbeat, Omniture, Hearken
Multimedia journalism, arts and culture reporting Social: Crowdtangle, Tweetdeck, Storify, etc.
Commencement speaker, graduate council, full scholarship Data: Excel, Fusion Tables, Caspio, Refine, Tabula, Infogram
Maps: Google, Fusion, CartoDb, Maps4News, Datawrapper
Deep Springs College, 2000-2002 Online: NewsGate, Omniture, WordPress, basic HTML
Udall/Hotchkiss scholarships, student trustee. Research: LexisNexis, PACER.