Channtal Fleischfresser
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CV in English

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER - São Paulo, Brazil
January 2010 - Present

  • Reporter, writer, editor, and shooter, producing news stories from Brazil for outlets including the Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and Al Jazeera English.

HBO SPORTS - Recife, Brazil
Freelance Fixer/Producer, March 2010

  • Set up interviews, performed simultaneous translation, and provided logistical and editorial support for a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel investigative piece about the death of boxing champion Arturo Gatti in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, in July 2009.

WORLDFOCUS - New York, NY
Associate Producer, July 2008 - December 2009

  • Edited and produced video, and designed graphics for a nightly international news program distributed on public television stations across the United States. Responsible for coverage of news events out of Brazil and Western Europe.

NEWS21 CARNEGIE-KNIGHT NEWS INITIATIVE - New York, NY
News21 Fellow, May - July 2008

  • Multimedia reporter for News21, a consortium of four journalism schools, each tackling one angle of the topic “Election 2008: What’s at Stake?” and working together to produce a final multimedia website. My project, titled “Law & Disorder,” dealt with anti-immigration advocates.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH - Boston, MA
Research Assistant – Harvard Opinion Research Program, July 2005 - May 2007                                      

  • Researcher and writer for Professor Robert Blendon, designing public opinion surveys on health policy, cultural and political issues. Analyzed data and wrote summaries for the media and literature reviews covering health policy topics including avian flu, abortion, and stem cell research.

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM - New York, NY, May 2008

  • M.S., Honors in first semester reporting workshop
  • Specialization in online media    
  • Reported and co-produced a multimedia master’s thesis on New York City’s female taxi drivers, incorporating video, text, audio, and info graphics.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - Philadelphia, PA, May 2004
  • B.A., Magna cum Laude; Major in European History, Honors          
  • Semester abroad at the University of Bologna, coursework in Italian (Spring 2003)           

LANGUAGES                               

  • Native: English, Portuguese; Fluent: Italian, French; Conversational: Spanish; Working knowledge: German
  • Citizen of both the United States and Brazil. International Baccalaureate diploma in May 2000.         

SOFTWARE

  • Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Audacity, Soundslides, ProTools, Storymaker, Motion, Google Earth Pro  

MUSIC 

  • Music Director of Quaker Notes, Penn’s all female a cappella group, 2002-2004.
  • Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, 1993-96. Classical piano since 1990.

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