Melissa Bobbitt

Melissa Bobbitt: Multifaceted Media Maven

Melissa Bobbitt is a modern Jill-of-all-trades. From interviewing the world's most famous vampire to curating and promoting Martian rock stars in concert, her eight years of professional media experience is vast and adaptable to any employer's vision. She hopes to obtain a position within the entertainment, publishing, social media or philanthropic industries that will utilize her array of skills and - most importantly - her driven and sunny personality. Her works have appeared in: Alternative Press, Venus Zine, Mean Street, Treble, Alarm, the Desert Sun, the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, PopMatters, PhantEye, Campus Circle, Daily Titan, the 213, Chord and more. CCSpecialties: Content Management Systems (WordPress, LiveJournal, Blogger, AOL Patch); basic HTML; Microsoft Office Mac and PC platforms; Adobe suite; Photoshop; InDesign; Quark; Associated Press style; concert photography; crafting press releases; FTP uploads; CisionPoint; LexisNexis

Assistant Account Executive at JS2 Communications

2011 - 2012

Assisted account executives in providing publicity for top-bill food and beverage clients such as The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Burger Lounge and P'tit Soleil. Curated and publicized Ra Pour restaurant's 2012 Coachella Cocktails campaign.

Movie columnist and freelance writer at Creators Syndicate

2010 - 2011

My weekly movie review and interview column appeared in 18 newspapers and websites across the country. I also wrote on a bevy of subjects for Special Sections features - everything from summer fashions ... to lawn gnomes.

Editor at Creators Syndicate

2007 - 2011

Worked personally with dozens of nationally acclaimed syndicated writers (Thomas Sowell) and cartoonists (the team behind "Wizard of Id") to edit for grammar, clarity, etc., to provide to newspapers worldwide. Duties also included creating press kits, updating online bios and assisting with FTP uploads.

Intern/Freelance Writer at Mean Street magazine

2005 - 2008

Internship (January-March 2005): Databasing of music industry contacts, article research Freelance writing (March 2005-December 2008): Multiple cover stories including Metallica, Panic at the Disco, Interpol and more.

Copy Editor at San Gabriel Valley News Group

2005 - 2007

Duties included editing local, national and world news; designing news and opinion pages.

Freelance PR Assistant at Jessie Cohen PR

2013

Assisted in successfully organizing and publicizing IAMSOUND Records/Myspace's Independent Label Market. Helped garner widespread press for the launch of Modern Farmer magazine.

Freelance Copy Editor at FabFitFun

2012

Copy-editing blog posts for grammar, style and Fabulous-ness.

California State University-Fullerton

2001 – 2005

BA

La Quinta High School

Music journalism, film journalism, TV journalism, women's rights, food, amusement parks, classic literature