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Brian Kahn Malmon
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain employment or internship in the field of journalism.
SKILLS
Excellent jounalistic instincts and an ability to
write a wide variety of features, columns, and
hard news stories.
Strong oral communication skills and an
ability to calmly handle difficult situations.
Vast experience with Microsoft Word and WordPerfect,
extensive knowledge of Internet
Browsers, ability to learn new software very quickly, fluency in HTML
Computing
Language,and excellent
typing skills
(60
wpm).
Languages: Spanish (reading).
EXPERIENCE
Columbia Daily
Spectator
(circulation 20,000), Columbia University, New York, New
York,
March 1996 - Present.
Managing
Board Editor, columnist,
feature writer, and beat
reporter for the
second-oldest
daily
collegiate student newspaper in the
nation.
Potomac Gazette (circulation
312,000), Gaithersburg, Maryland,
1992-94 (Part-time).
Worked as a
beat reporter and feature writer covering high school sports, specifically
football
and
basketball.
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP and
Affiliates, Washington, DC,
Summer
1997.
Legal intern for
the second largest law practice in the world. Worked in a variety
of
capacities
throughout the firm, including maintaining a log of press clippings for
Robert
Bennett,
President Clinton's attorney in the Paula Jones civil trial.
Weissblatt's Delicatessen, Potomac, MD, Fall 1994 - Summer
1996 (Part-time).
Ran deli counter
for local business.
Montgomery County Social Services, Potomac, MD, Summer
1992.
Volunteered at a
day camp as a private counselor for a child with muscular dystrophy.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
President-elect of Uptown Vocal, a campus
singing group that
was a semi-finalist in the
1997
Finals of College A Cappella.
Male romantic lead of the "104th Annual Varsity Show," a
comedic musical review of the
year at Columbia.
EDUCATION
Columbia
University, New York City, New York. Bachelor of Arts expected May
1999,
Political Science.
Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Maryland.
Graduated June, 1995.
GRADES
College: 3.698 GPA.
High School: 3.82 GPA; 4.57 Weighted GPA (top mark being 4.70).
References available on request.
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dke4@columbia.edu