Résumé

LAURA B. LEEBOVE

Journalism experience

eMusic | New York, N.Y.
Production editor, Feb. 2010 – present

BILLBOARD MAGAZINE | New York, N.Y.
Contributing writer, Aug. 2008 – present
Writing music-section stories, album reviews and live reviews for Billboard Magazine and Billboard.com
Editorial intern, May 2008 – Aug. 2008
• Wrote features, news and reviews for Billboard Magazine, Billboard.com and Billboard.biz
• Edited stories for Billboard.com and the weekly print magazine
• Sent out daily e-mail newsletter; gathered and resized photos
• Assisted Billboard editors and reporters with research, Web site projects and other tasks

VARIOUS
Freelance journalist, 2008 – present
Regularly contributed to Billboard, AOL’s Spinner.com, CriticalMob.com; have also been published in Venus Zine, Under the Radar, Heeb Magazine, filter-mag.com, self-titled magazine, Pomp & Circumstance, East Village Radio blog, and Blurt

Freelance transcriptionist, 2009
Transcribed audio interviews for journalists/authors for use in books and work published in The New York Times, Spin and Pitchfork

CRITICALMOB.COM | New York, N.Y.
Content editor, Dec. 2009 – March 2010

VENUS ZINE (women’s music and culture magazine) | Chicago, Ill. | Circulation 60,000 quarterly
Contributing writer, 2007 – 2010
Concert reviews editor for VenusZine.com, Nov. 2007 – June 2009
• Collaborated with writers, photographers and publicists to plan and coordinate nationwide concert and festival coverage
• Edited nearly 300 reviews and posted them on VenusZine.com with help from one work-from-home intern
• Lightly edited and resized photos
Editorial intern, May 2007 – Aug. 2007
• Wrote, copy edited and fact-checked stories and reviews for VenusZine.com and the print issue of the magazine
• Updated content on VenusZine.com

THE STATE NEWS | Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. | Circulation 28,500 Monday through Friday
Online Design and Development team member, Aug. 2008 – June 2009
• Contributed design ideas and page mock-ups for redesigns of several of the paper’s external and internal Web sites
• Coded segments of Web site redesigns using CSS and HTML
• Made Adobe Flash animations for lansinglowdown.com
• Used Adobe Photoshop to design, alter and animate advertisements for statenews.com
In-depth features reporter, Jan. 2008 – April 2008
Features editor, Aug. 2007 – Dec. 2007
Entertainment general assignment reporter, Jan. 2007 – April 2007
Copy editor and copy/designer, Sept. 2005 – Dec. 2006

Other music experience

GOLDENROD MUSIC (distribution company focusing on women’s music) | Lansing, Mich.
Intern, June 2006 – Aug. 2006

Computer skills

Basic Adobe Photoshop and InDesign; basic HTML; various content management platforms

Education

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
Graduated summer 2009 with B.A. in journalism; specialization in women, gender and social justice

References

Available upon request