Brandon Hogan

Email: mailbhogan@gmail.com

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/bhogin

Phone number available upon request.

Experience

Web editor – ClickOrlando.com (WKMG-TV),   Nov 2021- Present

-Writing and editing articles for WKMG-TV’s digital platform.

-Adhering to AP Style, keeping an eye out for errors to fix and help to provide.

-Handling and covering livestreamed events on Facebook, YouTube and ClickOrlando.com.

-Assuming full control of the website, its social outreach and user engagement on weekends.

Reporter/Anchor – WDBO 107.3-FM & AM-580,   May 2019- Oct 2021

-Reporting on- and off-site to produce quality voicers, cut copies and wraps for broadcast.

-Scheduling and taking interviews, keeping connections and always knowing who to speak with first.

-Anchoring live newscasts at the top and bottom of the hour, as well as hour-long noon and evening shows.

-Posting and updating web stories while maintaining a wired social media presence.

Assistant Life/Sports Editor – NSM Today,   Aug 2021- present

-Editing and publishing UCF journalism students’ web stories and photography with BLOX CMS.

-Coaching student reporters to improve their work without taking away their voice.

-Assisting fellow editors by staying alert, sharing the workload and taking over in their absence.

Contributing Writer/Marketing Team – UCF Imprint Magazine,   Aug- Dec 2018

-Reported on aspects of student life to produce enterprising, non-academic web stories.

-Shadowed and interviewed editors to gain realistic experience.

-Contributed to a lasting redesign of website and social media marketing.

Reporter – UCF Nicholson Student Media,   Aug- Nov 2017

-Researched and pitched original story ideas, contacted and interviewed sources.

-Operated teleprompter and camera on weekly webcast.

-Worked to produce UCF-related web stories while adhering to weekly deadlines.

 

Higher Education

Valencia College – Orlando, FL, 2014- 2017

-Associate of Arts, focus in Print Journalism.

University of Central Florida – Orlando, FL, 2017-2021

-Bachelor’s Degree in Print Journalism, minor in Writing and Rhetoric.

 

Skills

-Dedicated and independent on the job, coachable and always willing to learn.

-Editing functions in Arc, BLOX CMS and Microsoft Word are second nature; high familiarity with Microsoft, Sony, and Adobe software in general.

-A professional’s bearing with AP, APA and MLA styles.

 

Awards and Accomplishments

– President of the Radio, Television, and Digital News Association UCF chapter, Fall 2020- Fall 2021

            -Vice President, Fall 2019- Fall 2020

-Awarded the Mike Lyons Memorial Scholarship for Communications and Journalism studies, May 2014