About Carly Nairn
Carly cut her teeth in reporting at Portland State University, first as a news reporter, then theatre critic, then Opinion pages editor, for the student newspaper The Daily Vanguard.
After several unpaid internships and a brief stint at a rural daily in the Northwest, she landed in U.C. Berkeley's graduate journalism program.
She has a deep and abiding love for the written word, and more recently, radio. She prefers reporting stories with strong investigative elements.
Carly is from Modesto, California, where the taco trucks rival the best Mexican places in the Mission District.
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts, Portland State University
- August 2006 - June 2008
- Communication Studies degree. Lambda Pi Eta Honor recipient. Senior Debater for the college's British Parliamentary debate team.
Published Stories:
- Long-Awaited Dolores Park Redesign Plans Unveiled
- Mission Local
- A look at how the Dolores Park Renovation Project is going by those involved in the process, and by those in the community.
- The Sweet Science: Mission Trainer Kenneth Watson
- Mission Local
- A photo slide show of Mission trainer Kenneth Watson.
- With Gang Charges Dropped, Elvira Zayas Case Spotlights the Controversy Over ‘Safety Zones’
- Mission Local
- Elvira Zayas was falsely accused of participation in a gang. She spent about a month in jail with a $1 million bail. The report shows an example of how gang injunctions can be misapplied.
- Planned Parenthood and Pro-Life Advocates Clash Over Space in Front of Valencia St. Clinic
- Mission Local
- A report detailing the interaction and legal activities between protesters and Planned Parenthood in the Mission district.
- Activists speak out at Chevron's shareholder meeting
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Carly Nairn writes about being at the scene of Chevron's annual shareholder meeting and the reactions of many activists against the energy giant.
- Chevron's critics gather before annual shareholder meeting
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Pre-coverage of Chevron's shareholder meeting and reactions by various activists.
Awards:
- 2009 ONPA Collegiate Awards- Best Editorial (May 2009)
Work Experience:
- News Intern
- San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco CA ( January 2011 - June 2011 )
- Wrote short briefs to in-depth investigative pieces for the news team.
- Education and Business beat reporter
- The Lewis County Chronicle - Centralia WA ( November 2009 - February 2010 )
- Reporter for rural Washington state. Covered local news, and worked as photographer.
- Opinion Editor of The Daily Vanguard
- The Daily Vanguard - Portland CA ( August 2008 - June 2009 )
- As the opinion pages editor of the Portland State University daily newspaper The Vanguard, Carly was responsible for copy editing, fostering ideas, and helping with craft for 4-8 writers, selecting editorial comics, designing pages, including deciding illustrations, and managing the editorials of the paper. She also produced a weekly column while editor.
- Arts Intern for The Portland Mercury
- The Portland Mercury - Portland CA ( May 2008 - August 2008 )
- Carly covered arts and culture as an intern for the alt-weekly paper The Portland Mercury in Portland, Oregon. She also transcribed interviews, input data for the web, covered events such as the annual Time-Based Art festival, and wrote blog entries.
Skills:
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public records searches, editing web videos , interviewing and editing content for radio.
Web skills (HTML, Adobe Flash, Wordpress, Storify)
Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Other Works:
A finalist for the short fiction writing competition 2009 Sledgehammer, Dead Air was a collaboration with Boise Weekly editor Josh Gross and written in 36 hours. Read more...
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