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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