TESSA MUGGERIDGE

I am a bilingual digital and print journalist who believes in the power journalistic words can have in amplifying the silenced, exposing injustice and catalyzing change. The pen is the mightiest of all swords.

Phone: 480.205.2909

E-mail: tessa.muggeridge [at] gmail.com

EDUCATION

Arizona State University (August 2007—present)
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Barrett, the Honors College
Expected graduation: May 2001; Dean's list: All semesters

Bachelor of Art in digital journalism
Bachelor of Art in Spanish
Master of mass communication with emphasis in digital journalism

WORK EXPERIENCE

News editor, The State Press, Tempe and Phoenix, Ariz. (August 2009 — present)
Breaking news intern. The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz.(August 2009 — present)
Supply coordinator, spiritual life coordinator, Sierra Service Project , Loleta, Calif. (June 2009 — August 2009)
Non-fiction editor LUX Undergraduate Creative Review, creative literary magazine, Tempe, Ariz. (April 2009 — present)
Police reporter for The State Press , Tempe and Phoenix, Ariz. (August 2008 — May 2009)
Cook, Sierra Service Project , Schurz, Nev. (June 2008 — August 2008)
Copy editor, The State Press, , State Press Magazine Tempe, Ariz (January 2008 — May 2008)
Caller, Sun Devil TeleConnection , Tempe, Arizona (August 2007 — May 2008)

SKILLS

Spanish
Microsoft Office
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, InDesign, Dreamweaver
Web design, basic HTML/CSS, Content Management Systems

INVOLVEMENT

Society of Professional Journalists
Honors Devils
Student Admissions Relations Team
Wesley Campus Ministry

AWARDS

"Best News Story" for the fall 2008 semester: 50 Years Ago: Voters Endorse Prop 200, December 2008

"Best News Story" for the spring 2009 semester: "A Different War: As violence — largely from drug cartels — extends to the northernmost cities in Mexico and beyond the southernmost areas of Arizona, the gap between the traditionally “safe” and “unsafe” is shrinking. This is a series that speaks of the shifting violence from Mexico into Arizona," [ Mexico travel warning issued as danger grows, Talk of violence in Mexico alters break plans for some and Phoenix police: City safe despite violence across border on drug-cartel violence in Mexico affecting ASU students and the greater population of Phoenix, May 2009