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Nathan Ford
100 Wartburg Blvd. Box 497
Waverly, Iowa 50677
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 641-325-1193
Twitter: @NathanTFord
Experience
Managing Editor | Wartburg Circuit
Sports Editor | Wartburg Trumpet
In charge of converged student media website. Responsible
for design, editing content and pushing student journalists
into a 24/7 mindset. Initiated website re-design. Developed
strong social media presence (Twitter: @WartburgCircuit).
Assign stories and game coverage to reporters. Design pages
for the weekly paper. Cover Wartburg’s Division III athletic
teams. Write features and opinions on Wartburg, the Iowa
Conference and NCAA Division III.
Sports Co-Director | KWAR (Radio)
Play-by-Play | Knight Vision
Assign play-by-play and color commentary duties for
Wartburg volleyball, basketball and baseball games on
student-run FM and online radio station. Call approximately
10 games of each sport per season.
Lead play-by-play announcer for Wartburg football,
volleyball and men’s basketball on Wartburg’s new online
sports streaming service (wartburgknightvision.com).
Sports Reporter/Anchor | WTV
Sports Intern | Poweshiek County CR
Capture game highlights, produce feature packages and
anchor weekly sports show once every three weeks on student-run cable television station.
Covered local baseball and softball games and wrote feature
stories on area athletes for local, weekly newspaper in
Grinnell, Iowa.
Skills
Honors and Awards
May 2013-Present
May 2012-Present
September 2011-Present
Adobe Creative Suite:
Premiere Pro
Audition
Photoshop
InDesign
Illustrator
WordPress
DSLR Cameras
TV Cameras
Microsoft Office
January 2012-Present
September 2013-Present
May-August 2012 and 2013
Associated Collegiate Press, Best of Midwest: 1st Place,
Multimedia Package (2013)
Society for Collegiate Journalists: 1st Place, Newspaper sports
page, design and content (2013)
Iowa Broadcast News Association: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place,
Radio sports coverage; 3rd Place, Sports play-by-play (2013)
References
Education
Cliff Brockman, Wartburg Professor in Communication Arts
[email protected]
Dann Hayes, Poweshiek County CR Managing Editor
[email protected]
Al Strain, Owatonna People’s Press Reporter
[email protected]
Chris Varney, KGRN (Grinnell) Sports Director
[email protected]
Wartburg College, Class of 2015
Communication Arts Major, Multimedia Emphasis
Leadership Minor