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Celeste Bott

Chicago,IL

Summary

I'm a driven news reporter with a proven track record of excellent work and engaging storytelling in the fields of both legal and political journalism.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Legal Journalist

Law360
CHICAGO, IL
02.2019 - Current
  • Writing at least two stories per day that reach thousands of readers while covering and tracking civil lawsuits and criminal cases in the state and federal courts in Illinois.
  • Meeting numerous daily deadlines while also working on long-term projects and editing features, maintaining excellent time management skills to juggle live court coverage, writing, copy editing, legal research, tracking dockets, and on-the-ground reporting.
  • Experience covering dozens of jury and bench trials in state and federal courts.
  • Working quickly and efficiently to cover breaking legal news in the state of Illinois, and scoop competitors.
  • Acting as an assigned mentor to young reporters, new to Law360 and legal reporting.

Political Journalist

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, MO
06.2016 - 01.2019
  • Covered national, state and local politics for the newspaper, in both the paper's Missouri Capitol bureau and the St. Louis City Hall bureau.
    • Creator and key contributor to Tipping Point, a multi-part, award-winning series on blight in St. Louis.
  • Edited, supervised, and mentored interns during their internships at the paper's Jefferson City capital bureau.
    • Balanced daily deadlines, breaking news, and live coverage of legislative hearings and sessions with long-term investigative projects and features that brought important issues to light, put pressure on key legislators to address problems identified by the reporting and prompted changes and debate at the legislative level.

Education

Master of Arts - Political Science

University of Illinois
Springfield
06-2016

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism And Communications

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
05-2015

Skills

  • Writing
  • Editing
  • Grammar and spelling
  • AP Style
  • Proofreading
  • Research and fact-checking
  • Interviewing
  • Publishing

Timeline

Legal Journalist

Law360
02.2019 - Current

Political Journalist

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
06.2016 - 01.2019

Master of Arts - Political Science

University of Illinois

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism And Communications

Michigan State University

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