Overview
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Patrick Torphy

Bryn Mawr

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Assignment Editor/Producer

CBS News
01.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for overseeing all domestic newsgathering for the network and selecting top stories to share companywide during the weekday overnight hours
  • This includes any breaking news and local stories that are connected to a larger, national trend
  • Generate original reporting of those stories for CBS Mornings, CBS Evening News, CBSNews.com, CBS Radio, stream, and Newspath (affiliate service)
  • Confirm breaking news by reaching out to police/ fire departments, emergency services, and other agencies via email, cold calls, or on social media
  • Deploy crews when necessary
  • Gather primary source material via PACER, local and state court records, Nexis, regulatory filings, legal/corporate/governmental representatives, and FOIA requests
  • Compile the "What's Happening" daily planning note which shapes CBS News’ editorial coverage for all shows and platforms
  • Report directly to the Senior Vice President of Domestic Newsgathering

Associate Producer

CBS News
05.2019 - 01.2022
  • (2 years 9 months) - Oversee the Newspath assignment desk by serving as one of the network’s only overnight liaisons to its 200+ affiliates and partners worldwide
  • Lead coverage for major breaking news, including Singapore + Hanoi + Helsinki summits, Sea-Tac plane hijacking, George H.W
  • Bush passing, Thailand cave rescue, George Floyd protests, Portland protests, President Trump’s COVID diagnosis, etc
  • Gather elements for Newspath’s AM packages; advise assigned correspondent on latest elements/ info; substitute produce lead CBS Morning News package
  • Coordinate with CBS This Morning producers to secure elements for show
  • Produce generic reporter live shots
  • Book/route breaking news feeds for affiliates, CBS Broadcast
  • Center, and international clients
  • Cut VO/SOTS from live feeds and clear newsworthy social media
  • Produce more than two dozen Moneywatch live shots by pitching financial stories, writing scripts, finding VO, coordinating with editors and director, and communicating with stations and talent
  • Field produced 2020 New Hampshire primary: conducted interviews with experts and voters; produced dozens of live shots.

Broadcast Associate

Patrick Torphy

CBSN Intern

CBS News
09.2017 - 05.2019

Student Journalist

CBS News
11.2016 - 12.2016
  • Pitched stories and wrote scripts, ordered graphics, ran TelePrompter, assisted anchors on set, provided research for producers, logged tape for CBSN Originals.

Political Unit Intern

CBS News
09.2016 - 11.2016
  • Worked on distributing network-wide synopses and highlights of political events for which I live logged and rapidly produced verbatim transcripts; helped compile the election dossier, pored through hacked
  • Podesta emails and shared highlights in network-wide emails
  • Trained in pulling tape from CBS News
  • Archives to assist in producing pieces for air
  • I also worked on gathering day of air deadline-driven elements for producers, fed video to CBS News Bureaus around the world; helped organize and manage the unit’s 2,000+ tape library and Campaign SharePoint site, all of which are in regular use today
  • Served as production assistant at the 2016 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

Digital Intern

PBS
06.2016 - 08.2016
  • Assisted digital staff for PBS documentary series by conducting research, poring through congressional testimonies, retrieving public records, finding and cleaning data, and fact checking
  • Wrote news articles pegged to FRONTLINE films and other posts for exclusive content.

Rapid Response Intern

The Christian Science Monitor
09.2015 - 12.2015
  • Pitched and wrote six to 11 articles a week under two-hour deadlines
  • Utilized the trend-tracker tool
  • Spike to determine stories with the best traction across different social media sites
  • Rewrote wire stories and aggregated other reporting.

News Director

WERS 88.9 FM
09.2014 - 01.2015
  • Lead a staff of 20 at the top college radio station in the country with 200,000 weekly listeners
  • Managed underwriting and produced weekly hour-long public affairs show You Are Here
  • Hired and trained staffers, edited scripts, produced long-form interviews, and compiled the public file.

Program

Patrick Torphy
06.2014 - 07.2014
  • Reported on the kidnappings in Hebron and subsequent travel ban, the riots in Shuafat, and water rights in the West Bank
  • Reported from Sderot for WERS when rockets were being fired from Gaza.

Intern

Washington Journalism And Media Conference
07.2013 - 07.2013
  • Assisted in logistics, including preparing for and assisting high-profile speakers
  • Produced biographical information on speakers and wrote introductions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Journalism, Political Science, Global And Post-Colonial Studies

Emerson College
Boston, MA
2017

Skills

  • ENPS
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Adobe Audition
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • WordPress
  • AP Stylebook
  • Nikon DSLR
  • LexisNexis
  • PACER
  • FOIA
  • Logging
  • Data journalism: Excel, Tableau, OpenRefine, Trifacta Wrangler, CartoDB, Tabula

Timeline

Assignment Editor/Producer

CBS News
01.2022 - Current

Associate Producer

CBS News
05.2019 - 01.2022

CBSN Intern

CBS News
09.2017 - 05.2019

Student Journalist

CBS News
11.2016 - 12.2016

Political Unit Intern

CBS News
09.2016 - 11.2016

Digital Intern

PBS
06.2016 - 08.2016

Rapid Response Intern

The Christian Science Monitor
09.2015 - 12.2015

News Director

WERS 88.9 FM
09.2014 - 01.2015

Program

Patrick Torphy
06.2014 - 07.2014

Intern

Washington Journalism And Media Conference
07.2013 - 07.2013

Broadcast Associate

Patrick Torphy

Bachelor of Science - Journalism, Political Science, Global And Post-Colonial Studies

Emerson College

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