Biola University: Internal Communications and Press Releases
Sports Information
From January to April 2020, I served as a sports information (media) intern for Biola’s athletics department. My duties included updating athlete bio pages on the athletics.biola.edu website with new information, taking highlight videos and live tweeting during games, running scoreboard operations during home basketball games, and writing press releases about events and incoming athletes.
Work Samples
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Another Holmes Chooses Biola
This is an example of a press release that I would write announcing a newly committed Biola athlete, using biographical information and quotes provided via a survey.
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Biola Gets Best Finish In Return
This is an example of an event recap that I would write, similar to a game story.
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Kayla Neff Athlete Bio
This is an example of an athlete bio that I would update using recent statistics, in this case Neff’s 2019 stats.
Center for Career Development
From August 2019 to May 2020, I worked as a peer internship ambassador for Biola’s center for career development, where I specialized in resume reviews and managed internal and external communications for the 17-person staff of student workers at the career center. My duties included writing and editing posts for Biola’s Student Life Blog on behalf of the career center, generating mass emails to be sent out to the majority of Biola’s student body, and assisting the career center’s assistant director in overall communications and social media strategy. I was re-hired as a temporary content assistant for a six-week period from May-June 2020, during which I helped conduct a survey of recent Biola graduates in addition to continuing my content generation duties.
Work Samples
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How to Break Into Nonprofit Work: Learn from the Pros
This is an example of a blog post I wrote where I took career advice from a current or formal professional (in this case, multiple professionals) and adapted it in a written format to be used as a resource for students.
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How to Set Yourself up for Internship Success
This is an example of a blog post either pitched by or assigned to a career center colleague. My role was to assist in the ideation and editing of this post from when it was first assigned to when I cleared it to be edited by my superiors.
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Mass Email Sample
This is an example of an email that I generated to be sent from a peer internship ambassador for a certain undergraduate major to all students in that major. All the email newsletters from Biola’s career center were created in Handshake, a third-party platform.