Amy Renee Leiker Portfolio Writing Amy Renee Leiker Website: http://amyreneeleiker.com Twitter: @amyreneeleiker E-mail:
[email protected] Phone: 316-305-2505 Table of Contents About Me Portfolio Journalism Résumé Newspaper Clips: Feature Articles Newspaper Clips: News Articles Writing Contact Information About Me Since January 2011, I’ve dedicated a slice of my life each week to reporting, writing and learning the ropes (translation: how to trick the computer system into working) at The Wichita Eagle in Wichita, Kan., where I’m an intern. In that time, I’ve been inspired by a mom whose 5-year-old boy, by all rights, should have died at birth. I’ve watched another mother weep over the sweet, autistic son she lost in a drowning accident in 2010. I flew in a fully restored WWII B-24 bomber, and I’m terrified of heights. I’ve reported from the scene of a murder-suicide; a stabbing among high school girls (the cops called it an ongoing feud); a rollover accident where a conscious semi driver jackknifed his truck to block traffic -- he saved the lives of two motorcyclists, a state trooper told me, who laid their bike down to avoid being crushed by a car. Once, a thick-knee bird with an unnatural attraction to humans attacked my jeans at the Sedgwick County Zoo. I’ve sunk knee-deep in mud at a dried- up Butler County Lake. I’ve seen dogs tracking humans, a church service at Cheney Lake and a solider meet his 3-month-old son for the first time.