Dublin 8 [email protected] Shane Raymond 085 840 9859 Twitter.com/ShaneARaymond http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/shane-raymond/37/215

Profile

Shane Raymond is a Dublin-based journalist specialising in social media discovery and verification. His bylines have featured in The Times, The Sunday Times, Al Jazeera, Marketwatch, The Irish Times, ABC7, Storyful, Hot Press, The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Irish Examiner and The Sunday Business Post. His research has been published by The Washington Post, The New ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ York Times, The New York Post, The Guardian, Vice News, Sky and The Irish Independent. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Shane’s research for The Washington Post on edited frames in a video released by the White House was cited in a ​ ​ lawsuit filed by CNN against the US Presidency. Shane is a skilled news and feature writer with a strong news sense, an ability to file accurate copy to deadline and experience dealing with copyright and media law. Shane has more than four years of newsroom experience and is certified HSK 4 in Mandarin Chinese.

Key Skills

News Discovery: Creating and monitoring feeds for breaking stories and discovering online content using RSS ​ feeds, Twitter lists, Tweetdeck searches, CrowdTangle, Telegram and multireddits. Pitching original ways to cover ongoing stories from new angles.

Verification: Geolocation; determining the date and time that videos were recorded; confirming and contacting ​ sources; debunking inauthentic stories and content; developing new methods of verification including livestream correspondence, frame analysis and gunshot audio mapping which was used to authenticate an otherwise unverifiable video that was shared online showing a Venezuelan National Guard attack on a civilian; developing a translation tool with key phrases verified by native speakers to communicate with sources easily and accurately.

Newsroom Leadership: Working as Director of Coverage (equivalent to newsroom Chief of Staff); discovering ​ leads; assigning stories; directing journalists on the use of open-source intelligence techniques (OSINT); integrating teams during broad structural changes including the redesign of communication tools, workflow and discovery sweeps.

Training: Creating skill-sharing rosters; creating tutorial videos; presenting speeches and workshops for outside ​ groups; training journalists at verification, discovery, writing copy, fact-checking, how to discover and contact sources and the use of Premiere Pro.

Multimedia: Analysing video, audio and images for verification; editing video, images and audio for Storyful’s ​ public- and partner-facing channels.

Professional Experience

Freelance Journalist November 2012 - Present ● Bylines in The Times, The Sunday Times, Al Jazeera, The Irish Times, The Irish Times Magazine, The ​ ​ ​ Examiner, The Sunday Business Post, Hot Press, Dublin Inquirer, The Scottish Sun, Totally Dublin, GCN, etc.. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Shift work for Newstalk, The Irish Sun and Channel 7 News (Australia). ​ ​ ​ ​

Storyful A global news agency specialising in social media analysis and verification. Storyful is owned by News Corp. Senior Journalist July 2019 - January 2020 Journalist January 2016 – September 2016 | April 2017 - June 2019 ● World News journalist working with clients, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Street Journal, The Times and Al Jazeera, to cover breaking news stories. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Pitched, wrote and copy-checked stories to house style, based on the AP Stylebook, and published content on Storyful's social media channels as well as to Storyful's own newswire platform through a CMS. ● Fact-checked information and contacted sources for information and copyright clearance. ● Trained journalists and created training tutorial videos describing the newsroom’s workflow. ● Managed handovers during shift changes to ensure continuous coverage of stories and client requests. ● Maintained an editorial calendar. ● Ran Facebook and YouTube newswires that aggregated newsworthy content for journalists. ● Took lead roles in organising a journalist skill-sharing programme, developing translation and outreach software, as well as setting up a podcast and a series of news video productions.

Premier Publishing Publisher of business-to-business journals for specific industrial and market sectors. Editor November 2016 - March 2017 ● Edited two magazines: Industry and Business and Construction Business. ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Sourced and wrote four to five news articles a day and edited submitted articles. ● Maintained the magazines’ websites and social media channels and ran WordPress newsletter campaigns. ● Shot footage of trade events and industry interviews and produced promotional videos.

Tutors in China & Shane English Tutors in China & Shane English are two agencies arranging English language lessons for schools in China. English Teacher August 2014 - August 2015 ● Taught children aged 8-14 in multiple Shanghai public schools. ● Created individualized class plans and PowerPoint presentations.

Global Institute of Logistics July 2014 - September 2014 China Correspondent ● Wrote press releases, presentations and publications of academic and market research. ● Sourced and translated biographies and investment material on and for GIL’s partners.

Lucan Disability Action Group PA and Notetaker September 2011 - July 2014 ● Academic note-taker for college students with disabilities in DIT and UCD.

Mugg Magazine Current Affairs Section Editor January 2011 - March 2011 ● Subedited, assigned stories, liaised with design editors and arranged photoshoots. ● Mugg won 'Best Small College Publication' in the 2012 Smedia awards. ​

Academic Qualifications

M.A. in International Journalism Dublin Institute of Technology Attended 2010 - 2011 Thesis on crowdsourcing and verification on the internet

B.A. in Philosophy, Sociology and Politics University of Ireland, Galway Attended 2007 - 2010. Dissertation on the moral foundations of human rights

Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Level Four - 汉语水平考试 四级 Confucius Institute (国家汉办) 2019 Equivalent to the B2 level on the Common European Framework of References for Languages.

Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Level Three - 汉语水平考试 三级 Confucius Institute (国家汉办) 2015

150-Hour Combined TEFL certificate i-to-i TEFL 2014

Computer Skills

Communication and Collaboration Social Media MailChimp Instagram Google’s G Suite, including Hangouts, Docs, etc. Twitter & Tweetdeck Intercom SoundCloud Lastpass Facebook, including newsletter campaigns and Slack Crowdtangle Trello YouTube, including content identification, RSS feeds, including Feedly monetising, and admin functions ipDTL Chinese social media (e.g. Weibo, WeChat & YouKu) Telegram Video, Image and Audio Editing Adobe Premiere Pro Publishing and CMS VideoPad Burli VSDC Video Editor Quark Windows Movie Maker HTML Cool Audio Editor InDesign Audacity Methode GIMP CHP (Content Hub for Publishers) InkScape WordPress, including email campaigns, SEO analysis and optimisation, and traffic tracking

Volunteer Experience

Amnesty International 2008 - 2012 Planned and ran field campaigns to promote Amnesty International and was tent manager for Amnesty at music festivals. Signed up and organised campaign volunteers.

References and writing portfolio available on request.