Ana Johnson

Consultative, strategic, full-cycle recruiting for CNN, WBD Sports and Bleacher Report.

Responsible for full life-cycle recruiting for Warner Media News and Sports, creating effective partnerships with hiring managers and HR business partners.

Programs homepage by curating stories, writing headlines, selecting images and packaging stories. Uses real time, hourly and daily data and analytics to place and program stories with accuracy, timeliness and creativity. Works closely with the mobile programming team to collaborate on language across all platforms. Writes breaking news push alerts and publishes breaking news tweets on Twitter. Creates and executes publishing plans for key projects. Manages sponsorships and partner goals.

Ticker Rotation Writing and adding stories to Ticker tool, pitching stories to team and copy editing CNN.com Video Rotation Cutting and editing videos, entering metadata in CMS, publishing video to CNN.com, tweeting on CNN Video account, sending Social team video suggestions, adding keywords to videos to optimize SEO, adding videos to mobile content bins, searching for and pitching videos.

Curates and publishes CNN content on digital platform, builds shows, writes headlines, partners with show teams to get segments coded, takes live segments in control room, tests iPad app and web app, uploads content on CMS, writes teases, changes thumbnails on app, handles live events and breaking news.

Associate Producer CNNgo Rotation Curates and publishes CNN content on digital platform, builds shows, writes headlines, partners with show teams to get segments coded, tests iPad app and web app Associate Producer Latino Rotation Searching for images and requesting graphics, adding video, fonts and graphics to show rundown, translating SOTs, and assisting in the control room with guests. Media Coordinator Digital record, entering metadata, downloading FTPs, reviewing video and entering fonts for archiving purposes and for air.

Managing encoders, quality control, noting time codes for content, watching encoded for desired content, communication bridge between requestor and senior media producer on requests, oversees metadata entry. / M anaging Miami video requests, communication bridge between Miami producers and Atlanta senior media producer, searching for images and oversees metadata entry.

Freelance Connect live feed of NBA games to League Pass Audio; maintain audio log and monitor feed connection continuously throughout game time.

Liaising with contracted merchandising companies in the USA, Canada and UK on all aspects of the merchandising project. Oversee printing and distribution of POS material; develop regular installation and maintenance reports and creating accurate timetable for roll out of the merchandising project.

Freelance Pre-production planning, gathered and selected images for video, acquired permission for image use, acquired graphics and digitalizing photography for video. Managed relationship with art department, received training from music rights department and wrote music cue sheet. Assisted executive producer on day of taping in the studio and control room.

Internship and freelance Gathered accurate information for breaking news stories, making phone calls to news sources and monitoring news wires and scanners. Finding, researching and following up on stories and assigning them to reporters and video crew. Worked on show rundown, gathered video time codes, total running times and out cues with editors.

Internship Assisted in segment production, floor managing, logged tapes, searched and selected entertainment news and b-roll images. Assisted producers with live production and assisted editors with image library.