MELANIE  KAHN


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Nancy Shafran
817-987-3600

 

Professional Experience:

WHAS 11, Louisville, Kentucky
Television news Reporter, April 2008 - Present


FOX 28 News / WSJV-TV, South Bend, Indiana
Television News Reporter / Fill-in Anchor, May 2006-February 2008

• Responsible for generating story ideas for the ten o’clock newscast and presenting stories live on a daily basis.
• Fill-in anchor
• Fill-in producer

KIDK-TV / KIFI-TV, Pocatello, Idaho
Television News Reporter, March 2004-May 2006

• Night side Bureau Reporter: Responsible for shooting, writing, editing and generating enterprise stories for the six
  o’clock and ten o’clock news on a daily basis.
• Primary political reporter covering all local elections and political issues.

Silent Screams: Modern Day Slavery” Documentary, Boston, Massachusetts
Filmmaker, fall 2003

• Producer, writer, correspondent, photographer and editor of a documentary concerning contemporary slavery in
  Sudan.
• Documentary is being shown in High Schools throughout the country.

NBC, Washington, D.C.
“Meet the Press” Intern, summer 2003

• Participated in planning, research and taping.
• Handled correspondence with the public, NBC Network, local and national press organizations, political contacts
  and maintained extensive political research files.

“Dateline” Consumer Intern, summer 2002
• Worked directly with the producer and correspondent of the consumer unit, on a full time basis, in the
  Washington D.C. Bureau.
• Assisted in the production of stories by researching original story ideas, conducting interviews and writing story
   proposals.

WHDH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts
Assignment Desk Intern, spring 2002

• Assisted in the duties of the assignment desk editor for WHDH-TV, with responsibilities that included research,
  phone interviews and MOS interviews.

Special Skills:
• Linear Editing
• Non-linear editing (Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Avid)
• AP News Center, ENPS, I-News
• Able to shoot with all DVCPRO cameras

Education:

Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Arts, December 2003
Major: Political Science
Minors: Communications and Media Studies, Drama
Cum Laude, Dean’s List

Oxford University, Oxford, England
Fall Semester 2002
Study abroad with course work concentrating on the relationship between the media and the government.
 

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