ericholmbergreports.
com Twitter: @holmberges SUMMARY A national award-winning journalist with a computer-assisted reporting background and strong investigative reporting skills. I am currently working on data stories as part of the projects team at The Dallas Morning News after finishing a two-year investigation for the Investigative Reporting Workshop in Washington D.C. I also covered arts for Reuters in Brussels and local government for the Columbia Missourian. EDUCATION
Eric Holmberg
Masters of Arts in Journalism, 2012
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science, 2009
Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pa. Graduation speaker at Commencement PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas Data Intern
September 2013-Present
Wrote data-centric blog posts/stories for print and web Worked with reporters from across the newsroom by doing the data analysis portions of their stories Gathered, cleaned and analyzed various data sets for the Morning News data library
Investigative Reporting Workshop, Washington, D.C.
May 2011-August 2011, June 2012-July 2013 Computer-Assisted Reporting Intern, Reporter/Researcher One of the primary researchers and reporters on The Koch Club, a two-year investigation into the political and charitable giving of Charles and David Koch, which was published in partnership with The New Yorker Articles picked up by The Huffington Post, Esquires Politics blog, Salon, and CJR among others Did data analysis and interviews for the BankTracker series, IRWs most popular series, using FDIC data
Thomson Reuters, Brussels, Belgium
January 2012-April 2012 Trainee Correspondent Covered the arts as my daily beat while helping with a range of political and economic stories Often attended the midday press briefing at the European Commission Articles picked up by Yahoo! News, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Vancouver Sun, De Morgan (Belgium)
Columbia Missourian, Columbia, Mo.
Local Government Reporter Reported mainly on planning, zoning and land use issues Awarded sports desk assistantship as a copy editor and page designer for the sports section
August 2010-December 2011
WTOP, 103.5 FM, Washington, D.C.
May 2010-August 2010 Sports Department Intern Regularly covered the Washington Nationals visiting locker room for out-of-town partner radio stations Covered DC United, Washington Freedom, and the Washington Kastles with one-on-one interviews and cutting all sound on-site for the studio
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Redskins Radio/ESPN 980, Silver Spring/Rockville, Md.
Productions Department Internship Edited sound for three shows: John Riggins Show, the Locker Room and the Sports Reporters Occasionally covered Washington Nationals post-game press conferences and did locker room interviews
May 2008-August 2008
Red & Black Student Newspaper, Washington, Pa.
Copy editor, staff reporter and sports columnist
Fall 2005-Spring 2009
WNJR, 91.7 FM, Washington, Pa.
AWARDS
Spring 2007-Spring 2009 Hosted a weekly two-hour radio show featuring music and talk about politics and sports
National Winner 2011 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Non-Fiction Magazine Article The Secret Life of Mules Second Place 2012 Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest in Best Story About Rural Life or Agriculture (Dailies, Class 2) The Secret Life of Mules Winner 2008 Pittsburgh A.I.R. Award for Best On-Air Personality for Hanging with Holmes on WNJR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES NICAR Conference, Baltimore, Md. SPJ Excellence in Journalism Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Society of Professional Journalists, Member Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, Texas Investigative Reporters and Editors, Member February 27 - March 2, 2014 September 20-22, 2012 August 2012-Present July 22-24, 2011 June 2011-Present
INTERNSHIPS AND OTHER EXPERIENCES
Young Journalists Program, Munich and Berlin, Germany
September 23-October 2, 2012 Toured German media, journalism schools and businesses as a networking and learning opportunity as part of an all-expenses paid, highly competitive trip sponsored by the German government
Washington County Courthouse, Washington, Pa.
January 2009-May 2009 Helped pro se clients, people who can not afford an attorney, to understand and complete custody and divorce paperwork
Study Abroad, China
December 2008-January 2009 Took a political and history tour of five cities in China six months before the Beijing Olympics
Study Abroad Semester, Madrid, Spain
Took courses in Spanish, European integration and European history DIGITAL SKILLS Data Analysis: MySQL, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, basic QGIS Page Layout: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Audio Editing: Audacity, Adobe Audition, CoolEdit Pro, Garage Band
August 2008-December 2008
