Phone: (765) 307-8904

Email: melanie.metzman@gmail.com
Social: @melanie_metzman
Website: melaniemetzman.com

Melanie Metzman
277 Church St. #2, New York, NY 10013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit New York, NY

Indiana University- The Media School

Contributing Writer | August 2015 current

Pitch and write 4 articles per month for Sports

Illustrated Swimsuits blog, Swim Daily

Cosmopolitan and Seventeen Magazines

New York, NY
Fashion Intern | May 2016 August 2016

Organized, catalogued and maintained the fashion

and accessories closets for two magazines
Conducted market research, built trend reports and
prepared research documents
Assisted with credits for cosmopolitan.com
Promoted the Cosmopolitan brand through shark
tank style projects

Bloomington, IN (Expected Graduation: May 2017)

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism
Major in Journalism, Minor in Art History
Honors: Hutton Honors College

SKILLS
AP Style, SEO, Google Analytics, InDesign,
Photoshop, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat,
Wordpress

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Indiana Daily Student (August 2015 current)
Region Editor | January 2017 current

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit New York, NY

Editorial Intern | May 2015 August 2015

Collaborated with the Managing Editor, Senior

Editor, Editorial Coordinator and Editorial
Assistant on the 2016 issue
Pitched and created multimedia content for the
Swim Daily website
Conducted fashion and editorial research on
upcoming trends and new swimwear and jewelry
brands
Organized, catalogued and maintained the fashion
closet
Produced video content for and assisted with
model castings for the 2016 issue

Social Media Reporter at the 2017 Presidential

Inauguration | January 2017

Business Operations Intern | March 2015

Worked with a team to manage logistics of the first

annual GHC/1, a conference for women working in
tech in NYC
Maintained Facebook and Twitter accounts for
Time Inc., GHC/1 and the Anita Borg Institute
Organized and managed check in for the event for
over 400 attendees through Event Farm

Black Frame New York, NY

Fashion PR Intern | May 2014 August 2014

Worked on high profile accounts such as Nike,

Rodarte, Kenzo and Opening Ceremony
Organized, catalogued and maintained the fashion
closet through Fashion GPS
Monitored press coverage and scanned online
and print press clips daily

Covered the inauguration on Facebook, Twitter,

Instagram and Snapchat for a following of over
70,000

National & State Politics Beat Reporter | Fall 2016

Time Inc. New York, NY

Manage team of 9 beat reporters with a web-first

focus covering Indiana state and local
government, education, Bloomington police and
culture
Write and edit stories including breaking news on
Indiana health emergencies (i.e. HIV outbreak)
and local police reports

Pitched and wrote 3+ stories per week on national

and state politics for a print and online newspaper
with a circulation of 14,000 and 100,000 unique
online visitors monthly

Economics Beat Reporter | Spring 2016

Pitched and wrote 3+ stories per week on local

Bloomington, IN economy and businesses for a
print and online newspaper with a circulation of
14,000 and 100,000 unique online visitors monthly

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Public Relations Student Society of America
Director of Alumni Engagement | Fall 2016
Director of Communications | June 2015 May 2016
Director of Publicity | June 2014 May 2015