From: bg843@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Don Canaan)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: Award-winning Journalist, MA
Date: 2 Oct 1992 19:29:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Don Canaan                           Telephone (513) 563-7424
8916 Reading Road, #4                Internet address:
Cincinnati, OH 45215                 usr0432a@tso.uc.edu
 
 
 
                          OBJECTIVE
 
Combining award-winning experience with common sense, energy, 
education, drive and determination, I am committed to making 
an immediate and lasting contribution as a:
		   
	               REPORTER/EDITOR
  		      
 
                       QUALlFlCATlONS                                                    -
 
o    ABILITY to communicate visually, orally and in writing with a 
     high degree of enterprise, proficiency and preciseness.
 
o    ABILITY to interface with professionals at all levels; including
     clients, celebrities, executives, staff and hourly employees.
 
o    ABILITY to utilize computers to collect data, investigate and
     write  and edit responsible, informative articles.
 
o    ABILITY to make choices reflecting honesty, credibility and
     integrity.
 
o    EXPERIENCE in setting up and coordinating a computerized 
     public relations campaign.
	
                    SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 
o    MASTER'S degree in Journalism from The Ohio State University
 
o    STAFF writer, reporter and news editor for a 138-year-old 
     community newspaper. During my four-year tenure revenues 
     increased by almost I0 percent.
 
o    SUPERVISED closed circuit TV public information effort at
     NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center for three years. This
     resulted in substantial funding for a NASA computer project.
 
o    DIRECTED and edited weekly corporate video "magazine" and PSAs. 
 
o    PUBLISHED "Horror in Hocking County"; a book detailing two Ohio
     "satanic"'murders. Book is now being distributed on computer diskette.
 
o    EDITED hard news and documentaries for NBC News during a
     13-year period. This resulted in a national broadcasting award.
 
o    FREELANCE writer for Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio Business, Cincinnati 
     Business Record, Cincinnati Business Courier, Citiscene and Cincinnati 
     Magazine.
 
o    INTERVIEWED President Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Archbishop 
     Desmond Tutu, Topol, Rabbi Meir Kahane and Mike Wallace.
 
o    PROMOTED the use of videotex electronic journalism by community 
     newspapers
 
 
 
 
                                  WORK HISTORY
 
	
UNIVERSITY of CINCINNATI		          INSTRUCTOR, JOURNALISM
UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM				             Summer 1992	    	
 
AMERICAN ISRAELITE                                 STAFF WRITER/REPORTER
Cincinnati, Ohio                                               1987-1991
 
DOWNTOWNER                                                   COPY EDITOR
Cincinnati, Ohio                                               1986-1987
 
FREELANCE WRITER/EDITOR				      (VIDEO,FILM,PRINT)
Cincinnati, Ohio                                            1984-present 
Columbia, Maryland                                             1980-1983
 
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY                             TEACHING ASSISTANT
		                                    School of Journalism
Columbus, Ohio					               1983-1984
 
NASA-GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER                SUPERVISOR-TV PRODUCTION
Greenbelt, Maryland                                            1978-1980 
 
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY                               TV PRODUCER-DIRECTOR
Beersheva                                                      1975-1976
 
NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY                                FILM EDITOR        
New York, N.Y.                                                 1961-1974
AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY			       FREE-LANCE EDITOR	
Washington, D.C.					       1977-1983
 
EDUCATION
 
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY                   MASTER'S DEGREE IN JOURNALISM
Columbus, Ohio                                          	     1984
 
THE CITY COLLEGE of NEW YORK                    BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN FILM
New York, N.Y.                                                       
                                                      
AWARDS
 
OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION                          	    "OHIO PRISONS"
First Place, Weekly Newspapers                                       1989
 
CINCINNATI BLUE CHIP AWARD                              "REASONABLE DOUBT"      
                
Best Video Documentary                                                1986      
                           
                                                                              
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS                                 "PUBLIC ACCESS TV"      
                                                                        
First Place, Radio Documentaries                                      1984      
                                   
                                                                          
GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARD                 "ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE U.S.A"      
                                                                          
Editorial Contribution                                                1967