Work History:

General Manager (August 2013 – May 2014)
DJ (September 2010 – May 2014)
Program Director (August 2012 – May 2013)
Social Media and Promotions Director (August 2011 – May 2012)
Assistant Events Director (January – May 2011)
Assistant Music Director (September 2010 – May 2011)

FLIERS

My degree is in magazine journalism and photojournalism, but I still enjoyed using InDesign to create fliers for various events at Black Squirrel Radio as a whole and on my own personal shows. See some examples below (arranged from most recent first and oldest last).

 

INTERVIEWS

 

William Beckett
Set It Off
The Composure
Aristo
The Product
The Promise Hero

VIDEOS

 
Black Squirrel Radio is currently selling Acornaments, or ornaments made of acorn tops and marbles. Kent State students, faculty and friends can visit the student media business office in Franklin Hall room 205 to pick one up today.



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Black Squirrel Radio gathered acorns in the Fall of 2013 and turned them into ornaments (or acornaments to sell and help fund our student-run business. This was a mock infomercial made to help promote them.


 



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Sometimes touring acts passed through when we didn’t have normal programming or a show on-air to fit their genre. Instead of passing up the interview, we launched a “Couch Potatoes” session, which has featured Stages & Stereos (as seen here) and First Things First.


 

Black Squirrel Radio sat down with Florida-based pop rock band Stages & Stereos before they performed at The Outpost May 6. Find out what inspires the band, their thoughts on the state of the music industry, where they'd hide their nuts if they were a black squirrel and more.
Bobby of The Promise Hero hung out with BSR to spread the word about BSR Presents around campus. Check out this compilation of performances and be sure to join us at Euro Gyro Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.

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The Promise Hero was one of the acts to perform at our 2013 “BSR Presents” concert. I developed the idea of having him walk around campus to play his originals and covers to attract interest to the show while a staff member handed out fliers for the event.

Week nine's local artist is Envoi, an alternative rock band hailing from Cleveland. Listen as they perform "Ghost," a single from their last release, "Changes" EP as well as a brand new, just-written, yet-to-be recorded track, "From a Cage." Keep it locked on BlackSquirrelRadio.com for more exclusive interviews in our "Local Artist Spotlight."

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I co-developed an idea to spotlight locals on BSR’s homepage.
Each week, I shot, edited and posted the chosen artist’s interview
(which included acts such as  Ages, Brittnie Price, The Ohio Weather Band, Envoi, Bethesda and The Promise Hero) 
and a live performance--as shown here by Envoi's.

A commercial was also created as seen below
next to a general commercial for the station.

Black Squirrel Radio is Kent State University's student-run station that broadcasts 24 hours a day. We are home to over 100 DJs and one giant black squirrel named Url. CONNECT WITH US: http://BlackSquirrelRadio.com | http://facebook.com/BlackSquirrelRadio | http://twitter.com/BSRKent | http://instagram.com/BSRKent
where would you hide your nuts? Catch BSR's "Local Artist Spotlight" each week on the front page of our website and see all the past ones here: http://bit.ly/BSRLAS Black Squirrel Radio is Kent State University's student-run station that broadcasts 24 hours a day. We are home to over 100 DJs and one giant black squirrel named Url.

Footage was taken at various BSR sponsored concerts or ones where we interviewed the artist and edited into a "BSR LIVE" segment 

Video by Rachel Campbell "2009" - The Swellers Euro Gyro - Kent, OH October 20, 2013 http://www.theswellers.com http://www.blacksquirrelradio.com NOTE: The Swellers were so great live, but the audio from the venue that was picked up from this recording was no so great, so we replaced it with the album version of the track.
William Beckett performed for the Grog Shop on the Cleveland stop of We Are the In Crowd's "Reunion Tour" on Feb. 25. Watch as Beckett overcomes technical difficulties with a run through of some of his other potential introduction song options before launching into "Girl, You Shoulda Been a Drummer" from his 'Walk The Talk' EP.

CONTRIBUTIONS

 

General Manager

A large portion of my focus–outside of ensuring the smooth function of the station–was on the web content of BlackSquirrelRadio.com. As a journalism major, I wanted to attract our listeners to other parts of our website including video interviews and reviews. I co-created and launched a Local Artist Spotlight segment, which appeared on our homepage, as well as designed and implemented an acorn rating system for all reviews (as seen below).

 

Program Director

Before I became program director, all requests to have guests and significant interviews were sent via email to the previous program, web content and marketing directors for approval and to post on the website and social media. Inboxes can get messy and things are sometimes missed, so I created a digital form so that I (as the program director), could keep track of every single non-DJ visitor and the web content and marketing directors could post about significant interviews with people such as local and national artists by viewing it all in one place in the backend of a form. DJs could access the form by going to bit.ly/BSRGuestRequest, and a recent version of it can by clicking below.