Matt Bloom's resume as of Feb. 2016

1. MATT BLOOM
radio producer
mattbloomwrites.me
aaronmattbloom@gmail.com
317-701-0392
EXPERIENCE
NPR
National Desk Intern
Los Angeles, CA
WFIU Public Radio
Production Intern
Bloomington, IN
American Student Radio
Host/Co-Exec. Producer
Bloomington, IN
WIUX Student Radio’s
Exposed
Host/Co-Exec. Producer
Bloomington, IN
WIUX Student Radio’s
Nightcap
Host/Exec. Producer
Bloomington, IN
The Daily Monitor
Reporting Intern
Kampala, Uganda
Indiana Daily Student
Freelance Reporter
Bloomington, IN
REFERENCES
Jason DeRose
NPR West, Western Bureau Chief
310-218-2515
Kelly McEvers
All Things Considered, Host
202-340-6712
Assisted with the development and production
of Embedded, a new podcast hosted by Kelly
McEvers.
Reported for All Things Considered on the
increase of deadly hit and run accidents in
Southern California.
January - May, 2015
Assisted in the production of daily news stories
for Southern Indiana’s NPR a liate station.
Reported on Indiana’s HIV epidemic in early
2015 and produced a feature following a
HIV-positive woman during her second
pregnancy.
August, 2015 - Present
August, 2015 - Present
August, 2014 - May, 2014
May, 2014 - July, 2014
August, 2012 - Present
June - August, 2015
Developed the newest comedy program for
WIUX Student Radio’s online station, B-side.
Writes and peforms a comedy sketch on air
with producer and co-host Jordyn Alexander
each week.
Created WIUX’s only weekly interview-based
talk show.
Interviewed political reporters covering
mid-term elections, a bus full of environmental
acitivists on their way to a climate change
march and a Jewish a capella group.
Co-reported“Caught in the Gray Zone,”an
enterprise piece following an IU rape victim, a
prosecutor and the legal complexities of sexual
assault cases, which won best enterprise
reporting in the 2015 Hearst Journalism Awards.
Voted“best reporter”by peers in the fall of 2013.
EDUCATION
PRODUCTION TOOLBELT
LEADERSHIP/ORGANIZATIONS
Indiana University, Class of 2016
BA in Journalism and Spanish
Adobe Audition, Photoshop,
Final Cut X, Illustrator
ProTools
Founder and President
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
at Indiana University, Student Chapter
Member
The Association of Independents in Radio
Co-Manager and Player
Full Frontal Comedy, Indiana Univeristy’s
Longest Running Improv Troupe
Produced a documentary about a local social worker
working to restructure his HIV/AIDS clinic’s community
programming after the CDC cut funding in early 2014.
Published feature articles about the rising rates of HIV
infections in Uganda.
Re-launched the student media organization
by adding more than thirty new members
and developing a weekly show broadcast on
WIUX 99.1 FM and a podcast available on SoundCloud.
Pitches, reports, produces and edits stories for the
show each week.