1520 Grove Avenue Richmond, VA 23220 (804) 335-861 [email protected] Owen FitzGerald SKILLS ● Quickly formulate newsworthy stories for print and web, accompanied by multimedia elements ● Mastery of AP Style, copy editing, proofreading and grammar ● Adobe Creative Suite - InDesign, Audition, Photoshop, Premier ● Social Media Management - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook EXPERIENCE Capital News Service, Virginia Commonwealth University — Student ​ Journalist January 2019 - PRESENT ● Covered the Virginia General Assembly as a reporter ● Worked under tight deadlines for a large number of client publications ● Collaborated with peers on larger stories Growlers-To-Go, Richmond, VA — Beer Server ​ June 2015 - July 2016, August 2017 - December 2019 ● Maintained high knowledge of beer styles, the brewing process and a basic understanding of beer and food pairings ● Developed ability to match customer desires to beer selections currently available on a 56-tap menu ● Managed bottle and packaged beer stock in an inventory system Young Life, Hanover County — Volunteer Team Leader ​ March 2013 - June 2018 ● Dedicated to mentoring high school youth through personal interaction and planned group activities, meetings, and social events. ● As Team Leader, created clear and concise schedule for semester activities, direct weekly club meetings, and supervised other Leaders. 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(Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury) By Owen FitzGerald/ Capital News Service As legislators gather in Richmond for the 2019 General Assembly session, citizens in the far corners of the commonwealth might feel distanced from their elected representatives. But any computer or cellphone user with internet access can watch live and recorded video of state lawmakers in action. The House and Senate each live-stream their committee meetings and oor sessions. And the advocacy group Progress Virginia broadcasts subcommittee meetings over the internet. ProgressVA launched its Eyes on Richmond project in 2017 before the legislative session. Initially, the program live-streamed both committee and subcommittee meetings — because at the time, the House and Senate provided video only of their https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/how-to-watch-the-general-assembly-from-anywhere/ 1/4 4/4/2019 How to watch the General Assembly from anywhere - Virginia Mercury oor sessions. Since then, state ofcials have started live-streaming the committees; so ProgressVA now focuses on subcommittees. The importance of public access to subcommittee meetings cannot be overstated, as many important pieces of legislation are often killed at that level. Anna Scholl, executive director at ProgressVA, said the results of subcommittee votes would often remain unknown to the public. “When we started Eyes on Richmond,” Scholl said, “it was standard for bills to pass or fail on unrecorded voice votes, and it was often impossible to know how a particular legislator voted on important bills unless you were in the room when it happened.” That is why ProgressVA has put “legislative fellows” — college interns — in the room, equipped with a cellphone and tripod to provide live online video of government meetings. Program Director Ashleigh Crocker said live-streaming the subcommittee-level meetings allows citizens to engage with their representatives as they decide the fate of legislation. “We thought it was really important that citizens from across the commonwealth be able to know how legislators were voting when they were coming to Richmond to represent them,” Crocker said. In its rst year, the Eyes on Richmond program won the Virginia Coalition for Open Government’s Laurence E. Richardson’s Citizen Award. The coalition, along with ProgressVA, is a part of Transparency Virginia, a collection of advocacy groups and nonprot organizations assembled to promote transparency in the General Assembly on every level. Both the House and Senate began recording and archiving committee meetings during the 2018 session in response to a bipartisan effort from the Virginia Transparency Caucus, co-founded by Del. Mark Levine, D-Alexandria, and Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chestereld. Likewise, the House of Delegates began recording subcommittee votes in 2018 following a push from the Transparency Caucus. Megan Rhyne, executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, said the General Assembly has done a commendable job retrotting meeting rooms to allow for the recording and streaming of committee meetings. But the work of ProgressVA to give citizens insight into subcommittee meetings has been vital to the cause of transparency in the state government, Rhyne added. “General Assembly transparency is important because it is the work of the people,” Rhyne said. “They are making decisions that affect us as individuals and as workers and as members of various organizations and groups.” https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/how-to-watch-the-general-assembly-from-anywhere/ 2/4 4/4/2019 How to watch the General Assembly from anywhere - Virginia Mercury How to watch the General Assembly online House oor sessions: https://virginiageneralassembly.gov/house/chamber/chamberstream.php House committee meetings: https://publications.virginiageneralassembly.gov/display_publication/209 Senate committee meetings and oor sessions: https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3 Subcommittee meetings covered by ProgressVA: https://eyesonrichmond.org/ Previous article Next article Amid gambling push, Pamunkey Tribe seeking immediate Virginia Senate approves ERA, but it might not even get a state approval for Norfolk casino hearing in the House Capital News Service https://vcucns.com/ Capital News Service is a flagship program of VCU’s Richard T. 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