Alaska Media Link

P.O. Box 102156, Anchorage, AK 99510
(907) 274-7896 -- fax (907) 274-5465

Rachel D’Oro

                                        Q  U  A  L  I  F  I  C  A  T  I  O  N  S

Experience: Fifteen years as a newspaper reporter. Produced a wide range of feature and straight news stories. Lead writer on the Los Angeles riots for the Long Beach Press-Telegram in California, and contributing reporter on the Big Lake fire for the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska.

 Perceptive: Quick reader of people, records, and situations, able to translate complicated data clearly, accurately and concisely. Equally comfortable dealing with oil executives and public officials as with  injured  workers and grieving relatives. Bring creative tactics that work in daily and crisis communications.Vast store of media contacts.

Computer skills: Adept in both PC and Macintosh applications. Knowledgeable in PageMaker and other layout programs.

 

W  O  R  K     H  I  S  T  O  R  Y

Research editor, Alaska magazine              Present
Part-time editor of state round-up and obituary sections. Also help edit  freelance stories. Also a regular freelancer for the Associated Press, covering Anchorage events and writing radio broadcast copy, as well as Alaska Business Monthly and the Alaska Journal of Commerce. Public relations services include writing press releases from a journalistic perspective.

Reporter, Anchorage Daily News                1996 - February, 1999
Covered business, as well as community events in Anchorage and breaking news around the state, while monitoring local emergencies and public calls to the newsroom. Reporter on the Daily News’ 1996 Christmas charity project, “The Book of Dreams,” a tabloid about needy Alaskans that moved readers to give generously.

Reporter,  Long Beach Press-Telegram     1984- 1996
Covered government, police, special events, and breaking news. Memorable assignments include the 1984 Olympics, Cerritos air crash, Long Beach Grand Prix,  riots, earthquakes, mudslides, and a host of homicides, accidents and power outages. Also wrote features and personality profiles, as well as a weekly consumer column called the Recession Fighter.

 

E  D  U  C  A  T  I  O  N

Studied journalism, California State University/Long Beach. Assistant city editor for the Daily Forty-Niner, the daily university newspaper. Trained as a private detective at Northwest Investigations in Chico, Calif.

 

A  W  A  R  D  S

Include first place in newswriting, from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club, 1994/95, for a profile of a killer gang member; and the 1987 National Headliner Award, for outstanding news reporting in the Cerritos air disaster, team award.

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