Resume

Chine Labbé
chine.labbe[at]gmail.com

THE ECONOMIST (New York bureau)                                              New York, N.Y. (July 2010 to present)
Multimedia Resident
Produce audio podcasts and videos for The Economist online. Suggest and book guests for video series Tea with The Economist.

WNYC.ORG (New York Public Radio Website)             New York, N.Y. (Spring 2010)
Web Intern
Covered news in the field and, depending on the story, contributed text, video or audio pieces to the news blog. Also submitted audio clips to the news broadcasts.

LEFIGARO.FR (Website of daily national newspaper) Paris, France (June 2009)
Web Intern
Pitched and launched new formats to solicit viewer comments and engage the Web audience.  For example, posted daily questions, read hundreds of user comments and reflected their concerns in short articles.

FRANCE CULTURE (French national radio) Paris, France (February – June 2009)
Freelance reporter / Intern
Covered breaking news, produced and narrated news and feature stories for multiple news broadcasts, created multimedia packages for the channel’s website with text, audio and photos. Frequently covered French legislature. Freelanced a ten-minute piece about Palestinian lawyers, which won the 2009 Anna Lindh Journalist Award (prize included 5000 Euros and a trip to Monaco to attend the award ceremony).

THE NEW YORK TIMES Paris, France (October – November 2008)
News Intern, Paris bureau
Conducted story research, extensive fact-checking of copy and received two contributing reporter bylines.

LEMONDE.FR (Website of daily national newspaper) Paris, France (June – September 2008)
Full time Intern/Web journalist
Covered general assignment news, wrote byline stories for site, shot and edited videos, produced audio slideshows, moderated live web interviews, wrote short pieces from wire copy, constantly updated the website.

EL MERCURIO (National daily newspaper) Santiago, Chile (June –July 2007)
Intern/ Arte y Letras, cultural weekly supplement
Wrote a two-page article about President Sarkozy and French subsidization of the arts and reviewed novels.

EL PLANETA (Free Spanish-language weekly newspaper) Boston, MA (Spring 2007)
Intern
Updated the website, translated news from English to Spanish, wrote pieces on education and Latino culture.

EDUCATION

DUAL DEGREE Master of Science degree expected May 2010
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM New York, N.Y
Fulbright Scholar. Digital Media Concentration. Coursework included business and economics reporting. Produced a digital media masters project about an imam in East Harlem with text, video, audio, photos and interactives that was published on huffingtonpost.com.
- SCIENCES PO. JOURNALISM SCHOOL Paris, France (2007-2009)
Reported across all platforms. Participated in a weeklong trip to Morocco in October 2007 to report for the front page of French weekly L’Express International on low-income housing in the kingdom. Reported on illegal immigration to Greece in the spring of 2009 for L’Express International. Helped launched The Paris Globalist, a student-run international affairs magazine and became its editor in chief.

SCIENCES PO. PARIS Equivalent of B.A in Political Science, May 2007 Paris, France
Coursework in economics and European politics.
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA, one-year exchange program
Courses in Government and Latin American politics.

SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES

Languages: French native speaker, fluent in English and Spanish, basic Mandarin.
Multimedia: Proficient in audio/video recording and editing (Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, Audacity), photo editing (Photoshop) and Flash. Familiar with social media.
Interests: Flamenco, gospel singing.