PIERRE TAYLOR
Fort Lauderdale,FL
Summary
A driven, adventurous, forward-thinking video editor/multimedia editor/storyteller who thrives on new challenges and innovative ways to produce and disseminate content. Superb editor. Photojournalism. Deadline-driven. Firm grasp of journalistic ethics. Non-linear editing
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Video Editor
Miami Herald Media Company
03.2016 - Current
- Participated in creative meetings to assist in developing ideas and defining project deadlines.
- Create, produce, direct and guest-book for video shows/podcasts.
- Edit daily and project videos and work with all newsroom departments to enhance storytelling.
- Search for and aggregate videos for use in news stories.
- Edit multi-angle body cam videos, surveillance, and record courtroom videos for reporters.
- Set up, produce, and direct live streams.
- Edit audio and turn it into video for use on story-level pages.
- Edit and export Adobe Premiere videos and upload them to the content management system.
Senior Producer/web Editor/multimedia Producer
Miami Herald Media Company
08.2006 - 03.2016
- Edit and post breaking news.
- Created and help maintain social media accounts for the Miami Herald.
- Create and manage multimedia projects to enhance the reader's experience.
- Edit breaking and daily videos.
- Help create and launch two new Cuba-centric
websites (incubatoday.com and encubahoy.com) and created social media presence for audience engagement. - Hired, trained, and scheduled freelancers to help staff the CND (Continuous News Desk.)
- Help train the newsroom in new technologies.
Web Editor/Video Editor
Internet Broadcasting
07.2002 - 08.2006
- Edit and post breaking and local/national news, rewrote news copy for WKMG website.
- Worked closely with reporters and newsroom to turn around video for use on web.
- Created interactive content for special events.
- Set up live chats and interviews for use on the web and television.
- Helped create a live in-studio singing contest that was broadcasted live and incorporated real-time web voting.
Web Marketing Specialist
WKMG-TV
10.2001 - 07.2002
- Worked closely with promotions department and newsroom to promote station events and upcoming specials
- Shot and edited web promos for sweeps periods and investigations
- Helped plan and execute live events
- Manage web ads and updated content
- Scheduled promos to run on air during key times.
Vacation Relief
KSAZ-TV FOX
12.1999 - 08.2001
- Worked as vacation relief for newsroom and production crews, filling in when others took their vacation.
- I had to be able to seamlessly step into almost every role in the newsroom including satellite coordinator, live shot coordinator, producer, technical director, camera operator, video editor, audio board engineer, master control, newscast tape operator, producer, and traffic.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts
1990
Skills
- SEO writing
- Technological newsgathering tools
- Publishing tools
- Copyediting and proofreading
- Self-motivated
- Broad knowledge of local news and national news
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects
- Proficient in web analytics
- Graphic design
- Advanced knowledge of all video codecs and file extensions
- Social Media Management Experience
Accomplishments
- Helped train newsroom in new content management system.
- Helped redesign the herald website.
- Helped train reporters on shooting video in the field
- Worked with the I-team on several investigations, including Trayvon Martin videos, Florida prison reform and "Innocence Lost" for which I helped code and maintain a database of children that died while under the watch of DCF.
- Broadcast the first newsroom livestream on the death of Michael Jackson.
- Broadcast the first livestream, from the Editorial Board office, interviewing Cuban Dissident Yoani Sanchez.
- Started and helped maintain social media accounts Facebook, Youtube and Twitter for the Herald.
- Help create and launch two new Cuba-centric
websites (incubatoday.com and encubahoy.com) and setup and launched social media for audience engagement. - Broadcast Miami Herald's first live streamed town hall meeting from Doral titled "Forum on Venezuela crisis, future set."
- Won the Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in journalism for the creation of an interactive map detailing the Cuban migration through Central American to the U.S., in partnership with WLRN.
- Green Eyeshade award winner for team coverage of "The death of Jose Fernandez," "Fidel Castro's death" and "The Fall of the Florida International University Bridge."
- Wrote "shooting video in the field playbook" for McClatchy prior to the formation of the national video team.
- Created the aggregation process that increased traffic for the Miami Herald which was used by McClatchy across all newsrooms. I won an “Herald Hero” award for my efforts.
- Handle most of Miami Herald’s live video events.
- Set up and recorded interviews with government officials, CDC doctors, medical professional and the Surgeon General of the United States to aid reporters during the COVID shutdown.
- Helped create, direct, produce and guest-book two video/podcasts "La Ventanita" and "Titletown South Florida."
- Part of the Herald’s Pulitzer Prize winning team for "The Collapse at Surfside" coverage.
Timeline
Video Editor - Miami Herald Media Company
03.2016 - Current
Senior Producer/web Editor/multimedia Producer - Miami Herald Media Company
08.2006 - 03.2016
Web Editor/Video Editor - Internet Broadcasting
07.2002 - 08.2006
Web Marketing Specialist - WKMG-TV
10.2001 - 07.2002
Vacation Relief - KSAZ-TV FOX
12.1999 - 08.2001
University of Nebraska At Omaha - Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts
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