BRUCE B. BOURQUIN
Objective: Full-time Sports Reporter position at a daily newspaper or Website.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
· Nine years experience in professional sports reporting, designing sports pages
· Writes on deadline; edits articles and features on time
· Credible, committed, reliable, assertive, personable, Eagle Scout
EDUCATION
M.A., Communications, Jan. 3, 2012 – California State University, Fullerton, CA
B.S., Journalism, 2001 – San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Writing, Editing, Reporting and Interviewing
• Wrote five to seven sports articles and one column per week, four to eight sports briefs per day, and one to two sports features or enterprise stories per month for at least two different newspapers.
• Interviewed more than five to seven athletes and coaches per week from local and regional teams, including Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar and likely Hall of Famer Randy Johnson in 2004.
• Performed layout on sports sections while using InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe PhotoShop, and NewsEditPro; sent sports sections to press room on time while working afternoon and evening shifts.
• Helped put Websites together, including photos, using Firefox, CMS, and Cyberduck.
• Covered Arizona Interscholastic Association state and region playoff games and meets in southern Arizona; California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section playoff games.
• Multimedia and social media skills include ability to take photos of sports figures in local areas, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, video recording and past video editing skills.
• Covered NCAA Baseball Regional at Cal State Fullerton for The Associated Press in June, 2011; St. John’s at UCLA men’s basketball game for Newsday in February, 2011.
WORK HISTORY
December 2010-Current Freelance Sports Reporter Patch.com; The Riverside Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA; Daily Pilot, Costa Mesa, CA
Write articles, occasionally took photos for AOL-owned Websites in Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside Counties in southern California. Wrote NCAA Division III and community college stories for the Riverside Press-Enterprise on Saturdays; covered various sports stories and features for The Daily Pilot.
January 2009 – October 2011 Freelance Reporter The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA
Write articles for weekly community papers; OC Varsity.com game stories as assigned; answered phones.
November 2003 – May 2008 Sports Reporter Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista, AZ
Wrote sports and news articles, designed sports sections, worked on Website on a daily basis; copy edited articles and pages on a routine basis; took photos on occasion.
September 2001 – June 2003 Staff Writer, Sports The Porterville Recorder, Porterville, CA
Wrote sports articles. Designed sports sections, worked on Website and copy edited sections.
AWARDS
2007: Third Place – Sports Deadline Reporting Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors
2006: Second Place – Sports Deadline Reporting Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors
2005: Third Place – Sports Breaking News Story, All Circulation Arizona Press Club
REFERENCES
Mark Garcia, Sports Editor, The Orange County Register community weeklies, Santa Ana, CA (714) 796-3658
Steve Virgen, Sports Editor, The Daily Pilot (The Los Angeles Times-owned), Costa Mesa, CA (714) 966-4616
Matt Hickman, Sports Editor, Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review, Sierra Vista, Ariz. (520) 515-4612
