Meet Daylina

Education

Masters in New Media Journalism | Full Sail University | Winter Park, FL

Bachelors in Mass Communications - Journalism | University of South Florida | Tampa, FL

 Skills

• Proficient in Adobe Audition, Premiere and Photoshop with familiarity and willingness to learn more about the other Adobe products.

• Proficient with Canva for social media graphics and digital story infographics.

• Personal and professional user of Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, Reddit, Discord and YouTube, and am often an early adopter of social media platforms to test user consumption and engagement.

• Experience with social media management and metrics reporting tools like Hootsuite and Buffer.

• While I primary shoot on smartphone for my current job, I have experience shooting video with DSLRs and GoPros.

• Proficient in shooting portraits, events, headshots, passport photos, weddings, families, and more with a DSLR.

• Have worked with multiple content management systems over the years and adapt easily to what’s used, and have often served as the team’s CMS troubleshooting guru.

Awards

Aug. 2023 | Finalist - Social Justice Reporting | Society of Professional Journalists - Florida

Aug. 2023 | Second Place - General Coverage | Society of Professional Journalists - Florida

Aug. 2023 | Second Place - Government & Politics Reporting | Society of Professional Journalists - Florida

Aug. 2023 | Second Place - Serious Feature Reporting | Society of Professional Journalists - Florida

April 2023 | Finalist - Continuing Coverage | Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists

April 2023 | First place - Series/Franchise: Light | Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists

Aug. 2020 | First Place - Continuing Coverage | Society of Professional Journalists

May 2020 | First Place - Continuing Coverage | Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists

May 2020 | Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - Investigative Journalism | Radio Television Digital News Association

April 2019 | Finalist - General Assignment - Short Format | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

April 2019 | Finalist - Best General Assignment - Long Form | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

April 2-019 | First Place - General Assignment - Long Format - Radio | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

April 2019 | Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - Excellence In Writing | Radio Television Digital News Association

Sept. 2018 | Innovations in Public Health Fellowship | National Press Foundation

Aug. 2018 | Finalist - Radio Feature Reporting | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

April 2018 | Second Place - Best Series/ Franchise Reporting | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

Oct. 2017 | Media of the Year | National Alliance on Mental Health - Pasco County

June 2016 | National Edward R. Murrow Award (as part of a team) | Radio Television Digital News Association

April 2016 | Second Place - Light Feature - Radio I Division | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

April 2016 | Second Place - News Website (as part of a team) | Florida Associated Press Broadcasters

April 2016 | Regional Edward R. Murrow Award (as part of a team) | Radio Television Digital News Association

March 2015 | Star Online Package of the Year | Texas Managing Editors

Oct. 2013 | Course Directors Award - Writing for Interactive Media | Full Sail University

April 2007 | First Place - On-the-Spot Editorial Writing | Florida Scholastic Press Association

April 2007 | Runner Up - Student Journalist of the Year | Florida Scholastic Press Association

Journalism Experience:

WUSF Public Media – Tampa, Florida

Social Media Manager (February 2025 - Current)

• While I’ve been involved in station social media planning, creation, and production for ten years, I was recently moved into a new position overseeing the news social media platforms.

• Post engaging social content; produce social media videos from video shot by field reporters; firm up social media best practices; increase engagement and reach to new audiences; propose which platforms we should leave behind and which ones we should explore and adopt.

Multimedia Journalist (Jun 2020 - Current)

• Produce multimedia news content for radio, online, and for various social media platforms, including audiograms, reels, photo galleries, infographics, social graphics and more.

• Helped write our news team and station’s best practices guide for mobile reporting, and best practices for various social media platforms.

• Collaborate with our partner stations during election years to produce engaging social media content, much of which I shot and edited myself.

• Train new crop of interns each semester on copyright and mass communications law.

 Back-up Digital News Editor (June 2020 - Current)

• Fill in for our digital news editor and midday digital producer when they’re on leave, which includes writing and posting news content, curating our homepage, writing copy for our on-air hosts, managing our social feeds, supervising digital interns, planning our daily newsletter, etc.

• Also on deck with the digital news team for breaking news events like election nights and hurricanes, planning and producing digital news content like live blogs and social media reels, and digitizing the broadcast versions of stories reported by journalists in the field.

 Healthcare Journalist (February 2015 – June 2020)

• Collaborated with healthcare journalists at public radio stations around the state to cover healthcare access, affordability, legislation, and more.

 The Marshall News Messenger – Marshall, Texas

Regional Reporter/Assistant News Editor (August 2014 - January 2015)

• Produced news articles for print and online, and shot and edited my own photos and video.

• Worked with reporters and paginators to make the print paper a reality by copyediting, proofreading, budgeting pages, editing photos and uploading and formatting content through the CMS.

• Managed the newspaper's Facebook and Twitter accounts, increasing engagement significantly in the six months I worked for the paper.

The Suncoast News – New Port Richey, Florida

Multimedia Journalist (October 2012 – May 2014)

• Produced print and digital news articles for our twice-weekly newspaper, and shot and edited my own photos and video. I also wrote an occasional opinion column.

• Many of my features were syndicated in the Tampa Tribune, which owned our paper.

Various Tampa Bay region publications

Freelance journalist (December 2010 - August 2014)

• Freelanced for several news publications in the Tampa Bay region, including various Patch sites, the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Tribune, the Palm Harbor Beacon and Florida Geek Scene.

NBCUniversal, Inc. - Tampa, Florida

Runner - Republican National Convention (August 2012)

• Completed tasks required on the set of MSNBC for live shows aired from the Republican National Convention, such as Hardball and Morning Joe, to aid the progress of the shoot.

• Purchased and picked up equipment and furniture needed on set and in the break rooms, was used as a placeholder on set before the convention to test lighting, audio and camera angles, conveyed messages, helped with freelance production crew payroll, and responded to specific requests from the Producer, Director or Assistant Directors.

USF News - Tampa, Florida

Multimedia Journalist Intern (November 2009 - June 2012)

• Wrote student life news stories, took photos, created photo galleries in SoundSlides, and shot/edited video for reporter's packages for the University of South Florida’s homepage.

• Contributed content to USF Magazine and occasionally had photos and video picked up by local media outlets such as Bay News 9 and WUSF.

USA TODAY College - Tampa, Florida

Collegiate Correspondent (August 2011 - January 2012)

• Wrote weekly articles covering various issues that affect college students from college students' perspectives.

Her Campus Magazine - Tampa, Florida

Campus Correspondent/USF Branch Founder (July 2010 - August 2011)

• Founded the University of South Florida - Tampa branch of Her Campus Magazine

• Produced USF-specific content (articles, blogs, photos and video), oversaw publicizing and social media, and managed a team of journalists - assigning stories, editing content and uploading it to the site.

The Oracle - Tampa, Florida

Opinion Columnist (September 2008 - July 2010)

• Wrote op/ed columns once or twice a month on a variety of topics for the University of South Florida - Tampa’s student newspaper.

The Tampa Tribune - Tampa, Florida

Community Columnist (June 2005 - June 2006)

• Selected as one of 22 columnists (including a handful of teenagers like myself) from more than 1,000 applications from the Tampa Bay area to participate on the paper’s first board of community columnists.

• Wrote op/ed columns once or twice a month.