EXPERIENCE
• Providing new-media services for Team Guinta since January 2010.
• Serving as Press Director of Citizens for Sensible Legislation since September 2009–officially since December 2009.
• Product Review Writer for BlueTomorrow.com, starting in Watertown, Mass., in May 2006.
• Providing press relations services to New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, others, See Articles
• Ghost writing letters to the editor, and etc., for politicians and political action committees. (Not available for viewing.)
• Running the Manuse Media Hub blog, a Facebook page and a YouTube channel called NHLimited.
• COMM101 Introduction to Communications for Nov.-Dec. 2009 term. (Download Syllabus)
• Writing press releases for New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, and others. See Articles
• Ghost writing letters to the editor, and etc., for politicians. (Not available for viewing.)
• Developed long term and weekly newspaper coverage and page plans.
• Developed story ideas, delegated article and photo assignments to staff and contractors.
• Trained and managed starting staff reporters and contract columnists, reporters and photographers.
• Edited and copyedited articles. Wrote headlines. Selected photos. Wrote articles and took photographs. Designed pages.
• Directed graphics staff for page layout.
• Handled reader and contributor comments and criticism.
• Represented company on local TV show.
• Built newspaper source network through other venues.
• Launched the Manchester Express Magazine, a glossy quarterly, which had an initial distribution of 20,000.
• Wrote a weekly “Roads & Rails” column about commuter issues.
• Developed relationships with sources.
• Researchd and analyzed reports and surveys.
• Wrote for the front, business, local and opinion pages.
• Shared articles with other Community Newspaper Co. publications, the Boston Herald and the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass.
• Visit: MetroWest Daily News
• Developed story ideas, assigned articles and photos to staff, edited articles and selected photos.
• Wrote columns.
• Worked with designer and publisher on layout.
• Visit the current Web site for: Anime Boston.
• Co-managed six reporters and three photographers.
• Assigned articles.
• Co-designed the newsletter in The Eagle Tribune's newsroom in North Andover, Mass.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
EDUCATION
• Self taught in collaboration with Wayne Seguin of Division By Zero LLC
• Visit the FACSNET Web site.
• Designated a Fellow of the Knight Center.
• Visit the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Web site.
• Visit the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism Web site.
• GPA: 3.58 (On a four-point scale).
• Dean's List every semester.
• Completed magazine workshop class in which I prepared a feature article for "The Comment" magazine, a Boston University graduate-school publication. Search articles for "Kamara" to read an archive of my contribution, or select "A Gift from Africa" listed under "2003 Contents" on the magazine's archive page.
• Wrote a thesis article on the Patriot Act to complete my degree requirements. See article.
• Other classes: Two journalism principles and techniques classes (beat reporting), literary journalism, media law and ethics, advanced journalism research (computer-assisted reporting), business and economics reporting, foreign reporting, multimedia journalism.
• Visit: Boston University College of Communication.
• GPA: 3.90 (on a four-point scale).
• Dean’s List every semester.
• Alpha Alpha Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International Honor Society.
• Delta Epsilon Sigma, Alpha Zeta Chapter, the National Scholastic Honor Society for Catholic Colleges and Universities.
• USAA All American Scholar Collegiate Award.
• Completed a 62-page honors thesis on William Blake’s religious views. See thesis.
• Visit: Niagara University.
ACTIVITIES
• Working on Contributor Daily, your one-stop, news-opinion site.
• Working on various opinion columns and other objective pieces of significant import to current events; see my blog: "For the Eyes of the Beholder" by clicking on the "Blog" link on the left. Also see my Facebook page.
• Contributing to Begin, Rescue, End, a blog about Ruby on Rails development.
• Served as an activist for liberty in various capacities.
• Read the Wall Street Journal and surf the Web for various other sources of news on a daily basis, among other writings.
• Working on PeoplesVoice.org, your one-stop, news-opinion site.
• Working on various opinion columns and other objective pieces of significant import to current events; see my blog: "For the Eyes of the Beholder" by clicking on the "Blog" link on the left.
• Appeared as a commentator for the paper on 2 Joe's Live, a program on Manchester Community Access Media.
• Read the Wall Street Journal and surf the Web for various other sources of news on a daily basis, among other writings.
• Working on PeoplesVoice.org, your one-stop, news-opinion site.
• Working on various opinion columns and other objective pieces of significant import to current events; see my blog: "For the Eyes of the Beholder" by clicking on the "Blog" link on the left.
• Wrote music using Pro Audio equipment, some of which is posted in "Art." See link on left column.
• Read the Wall Street Journal and surf the Web for various other sources of news on a daily basis, among other writings.
• Designed the Web pages for Tsunami Japanese Cuisine, of Brookline, Mass., and Star Pizza Cafe, of Brookline, Mass.
• Worked on various opinion columns and other objective pieces of significant import to current events, click on the "Blog" link on the left side column.
• Wrote music using Pro Audio equipment, some of which is posted in "Art." See link on left column.
• Daily read the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Herald, among other writings.
• Wrote a promotional menu supplement for Tsunami Japanese Cuisine, of Brookline, Mass. (PDF)
• Designed an interactive journalistic archive on former Zambian President Kaunda, who was in 2003 a resident at Boston University.
• Founder of Niagara University Poetry Society: “The Sideshow Poets,” spring 1999. Served as President: 1999 and Vice President: 2000, 2001.
• General editor of Mental Mosaic © 1999, an anthology of poems from students at Niagara University. Contributor to the same.
• Completed a 62-page honors thesis on William Blake’s religious views. See thesis.
REFERENCES
CONTACT INFORMATION
• Cell: 603-703-8857
• e-Mail: amanuse(at)gmail(dot)com
• AIM: amanuse
Last Updated:
5:06 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, 2009
