LENA ANTOON

• Work with diverse teams of producers and management to develop and establish successful newscasts, weather coverage, promotions and teases.
  Anchor popular broadcast program(s) throughout multiple markets throughout various Midwest cities with consistent good ratings and audience engagement.
  Researching and gathering information utilizing best sources, contacts, and leads to write and report potential stories for broadcast within assigned deadlines for multiple Top 10 successfully rated Morning shows.

As a producer for the global award-winning lifestyle medical talk and lifestyles show "Ask Dr. Nandi" whose mission is to improve America's health and the world of compassion, empathy, and integrity:

Planned and produced over 20 shows throughout two seasons of Nationally Syndicated show.
Organize show preparation by generating and developing topics.
Oversee research with pre-interview and interviewing guests.
Aid in script writing and revisions for episodes.
Maintain organizational skills with team and talent with working schedules, budget, and deadlines.
Planned video shoots in studio and remotely by managing production through stages to completion.
Generated leads through cold calling, networking and social media.
Coordinated with producers and on-air talent to create program content, new ideas and segments.

Developed and filmed a short documentary titled “The Power Behind The Paint” as part of Master's Degree Thesis.
Organized all legal, financial, and marketing aspects of documentary.
Applied accounting and financial management acumen to every area of film production.
Created crowdfunding page to obtain funding from investors, financiers, and other project stakeholders for the employment(s) of editors, camera operators, music composers, and production assistants.
Conducted pre-interviews and day of interviews of characters.
Assisted in editing documentary.
Researched and developed music score for documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-n4zrERW14

• Delivered local news, feature reports and traffic reports in public radio style for #1 Rated News Station WABC in New York City, and Legendary stations WJR-AM Detroit, and WLS-AM Chi Chicago news programs.
• Maintained strong relationships with all existing news sources as well as developed new ones to provide or compile appropriate reports.
• Completed assigned pieces and developed independent stories.