ANUP KAPHLE
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JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
Currently working as a multimedia fellow at the Atlantic Media Company where I help research, design, launch, write and edit new websites.
2008 Summer
Worked 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. 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
Henry N. Taylor Award (for the top international student), Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2008
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
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