CATHERINE WOODARD
907 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10021
212 879-8923
cwoodard@worldnet.att.net
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Executive content or business development position with innovative new media firm.
EXPERIENCE
News editor, iGuide web site for
News Corp, New York, 1995-96. Led team that created web site and on-air presence
for Fox News Sunday. iGuide liaison with
Fox News Channel 24-hour cable network. Negotiated joint ventures. Created automated
data base for web links related to daily top stories. Coordinated news coverage for
18 departments and the front page. Edited original Internet packages, including
Christian Coalition
investigative report,
West Bank settlers
photo essay and
Showdown '96.
Directed coverage of U.S. papal visit,
hailed by Columbia Journalism Review as "the most ambitious papal package" including
"delightfully irreverent illustrated tribute by the
cartoonist Doug Marlette."
Developed prototype for daily digital newspaper.
Deputy editor, Newsday Direct, New York, 1994-95. One of six key managers
to create and run new online service. Liaison with the newsroom.
Reporter, New York Newsday and Newsday, New York, 1984-94. Covered politics,
AIDS and public health. Presidential campaign, 1988. City Hall and Albany bureaus.
Free-lance magazine articles on Zimbabwe and the impact of AIDS on Harlem Hospital.
Reporter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982-84.
AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS
Deadline Club James Wright Brown Public Service Award for TB series. New York
Newspaper Publishers Association award for AIDS coverage. Long Island Press Club
award for local government and environmental coverage. Deadline Club and Society
of Silurians awards for property tax assessment series. World Wide Web Artists
Consortium.
EDUCATION
MS journalism,
Columbia University,
New York,
1982. Metropolitan reporting concentration. Newswomen's Club of New York and Scripps-Howard
Foundation scholarships.
BA history,
Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, N.C.,
1981. Magna Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa. George Foster Hankins scholarship. Editor of
college newspaper, OLD GOLD AND BLACK. Semester in London. History honor society.
ODK-Mortar Board leadership society. Varsity basketball.
PERSONAL
Grew up in Kenly, N.C. Married. Two daughters.
Interests include art, books and sports.
Former volunteer in AIDS buddy program.
Board member and coordinator of new media projects at
Artists Space.
Member of Museum of Modern Art Print Associates.
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