eXp Realty Continues to Roll Up Honors, Was Named a 2022 HousingWire Tech100 Real Estate Honoree — I wrote the nomination for this HousingWire Tech100 award, as well as the press release.
New eXp Realty Study Shows a Large Majority of Consumers Believe Owning a Home Is More Important Because of the Pandemic — For eXp Realty, I worked with our marketing team and public relations agency to create this press release about a study from eXp Realty and The Center for Generational Kinetics.
UT Austin College of Communication organizes live Super Bowl ad rating panel — For The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Advertising & Public Relations, I worked with professors to coordinate a Super Bowl ad rating panel.
I wrote stories for the UT Austin homepage and the Moody College homepage, and I successfully pitched the panel to KUT News 90.5 (Austin’s NPR station), KEYE-TV, KXAN, The Alcalde, The Daily Texan and Time Warner Cable News.
This pitch originally appeared on the University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication’s site.
New York Times columnist David Carr to discuss the state of the news industry
Belo Center for New Media opens for classes Aug. 29
Consumers trust government eco-labels but ‘like’ corporate eco-labels, study finds — Research from the University of Texas at Austin and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore found that green product marketers could build consumer trust by relying on government eco-labels, which consumers tend to trust more than corporate eco-labels. The corporate eco-labels, researchers found, work best for improving product and brand likeability for lower-cost products, such as milk or cereal.
I successfully pitched this research to The Guardian and NPR.
Job seekers: five ways employers are looking you over online — Brenda Berkelaar, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication, found that hiring managers appear to be seeking employees who behave like politicians – carefully managing their online personality, endorsements, public image and private life.
I successfully pitched this research to Forbes, Brazen Careerist and LocalJobNetwork.com.
New Assessment Could Reduce Learning Disorder Misdiagnoses Among Bilingual Children — I successfully pitched this research to Univision Austin, Ahora Sí and The Daily Texan.
McGarr Symposium on Sports and Society — I coordinated media relations for the Texas Program in Sports and Media’s McGarr Symposium on Sports and Society, titled “The Real Price of Winning at All Costs: A Discussion about Elite Cycling.”
The event was covered by KXAN, Fox 7 Austin, Associated Press, The Statesman, The Telegraph, Cycling News and The Alcalde.
I coordinated media outreach for UMKC’s NASA-funded Inventure University, a weeklong camp where Girl Scouts learn about engineering fields that have been traditionally dominated by men. The story was featured by KSHB-41 Action News, WDAF-TV4, The Wednesday Sun and the American Society for Engineering Education’s First Bell.
I coordinated media outreach for a research and development collaboration between the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Computing & Engineering and QM Power, a high-efficiency motor technology manufacturer.
QM Power was opening a new laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri’s Green Impact Zone. Proposed by U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, the Green Impact Zone is a cooperative effort to strengthen neighborhoods, create jobs and improve energy efficiency in a 150-block area of Kansas City. I successfully pitched this story to MSN, The Kansas City Star, KCUR and The Wednesday Sun. I also co-produced this video.
UMKC attempts to break Guinness World Record for largest robot dance — To promote a new book robot at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, I worked with University Libraries, the Conservatory of Music & Dance and the Student Government Association to coordinate a robot dance. Kansas City’s mayor spoke at the event, which more than 658 people attended, unofficially breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest robot dance.
I successfully pitched this story to KMBC Kansas City, KSHB-41 Action News, KCTV5 News, The Kansas City Star, the Library Journal and The Pitch Kansas City. I also helped produce a summary video and a highlight video.
Nuclear engineering field growing amid recession — I successfully pitched a story about two UMKC students who were selected for unusually lucrative Navy internships that provided five years of job security during the Great Recession. The story was featured by KSHB-41 Action News, WDAF-TV4 and The Wednesday Sun.
Cars of the future could allow drivers to simply enjoy the ride; UMKC professor’s U.S. Air Force research could produce vehicles with minds of their own — Through a summer fellowship program at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a professor in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Computing and Engineering designed and developed a prototype for driverless cars.
I successfully pitched this research to Wired, The Kansas City Star and The Wednesday Sun.