ANUP KAPHLE

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JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

2008

Working as a News21 multimedia fellow, sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight foundations

2007

Researched, reported and wrote stories and blurbs for Forbes online

2003-2007

Edited The Pioneer Frontier, Tusculum College’s student newspaper where I produced several front page stories and also broke several stories including illegal drug sale and burglary by safety officer

2006

During my summer internship at Newsweek International, worked with foreign correspondents and editors to edit stories for weekly closing and interviewed world figures including Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN-Secretary General, Brian Urquhart, former UN-under secretary general

2003

Produced about 30 news and feature stories over three months including exclusive feature stories on nation’s oldest college, the first international satellite telecommunications company in Nepal and the Mt. Everest Golden Jubilee celebration for The Himalayan Times in Katmandu, Nepal

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Shift Leader, Duane Reade retail store (New York); Dishwasher, Italian restaurant (Tennessee), Cashier, Spangles Fast Food (Kansas), Independent Tourist Guide (Nepal)

EDUCATION

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, New York, M.S. expected May 2008

Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee, B.A. English, Magna cum Laude, May 2007

Bard College Program on Globalization and International Affairs, New York, May 2006

Imperial College of London, England, (sophomore year abroad), January 2005 – May 2005

AWARDS

Foreign Press Association Scholarship (won first prize in the national competition), 2008

Winnick Prize (for best story from J-school's Reporting & Writing seminar), Columbia University, 2007

Madam Vivian Yen Innovation Fellowship for Young Journalists, Columbia University, 2007

South Asian Journalist Association Scholarship, 2007

Bruce G. Batts Award (highest honor for a graduating senior), Tusculum College, 2007

Journalist of the Year Award, Tusculum College, 2006

Curtis Owens Literary Award for Creative Writing, 2005, 2006, 2007

SKILLS and OTHER: Digital Audio/Video recording and editing, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Final CutPro, Pro Tools, Audacity

LANGUAGE: English, Hindi and Nepali (fluent), Urdu (conversational)

AFFILIATIONS: South Asian Journalists Association, Asian American Journalists Association, Society of Professional Journalists