CNN's Kendall Trammell to give Spring Workshop keynote
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UPDATE: This event will be a virtual awards ceremony on April 30 at 4 p.m. Read details here:
https://www.ugagspa.org/workshop-awards
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The Georgia Scholastic Press Association will welcome CNN global digital programming producer Kendall Trammell to speak to students and advisers at the 2020 Spring Workshop and Awards on Monday, April 13, at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, Georgia.
Trammell curates top news stories to feature in alerts and headlines appearing on CNN’s desktop and mobile homepages. Her reach extends across newsworthy topics, collaborating with content teams to plan coverage for pop culture, identity politics and all news in between to cover the world’s biggest conversations and events. With a background in breaking news, her expertise remains valuable to digital content strategies and audience development.
Trammell joined CNN from Cox Media Group, where she developed and implemented the cross-platform video distribution strategy for Rare.us and other sites under the Fans 1st Media division, a subset of national digital brands. She also produced, shot and edited enterprise multimedia stories before turning her attention to mobile and off-platform efforts on Apple News, Global Newsstand, CNN.com and the CNN mobile app for CNN in Atlanta.
At Rare.us, she scheduled and optimized video content on more than 20 Facebook pages, a YouTube channel and an Instagram account to grow younger audiences through platform-specific content.
Outside her duties at CNN, Trammell loves theatre as a former thespian. She also loves football, rooting for the Georgia Bulldogs as an avid alumna of the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication (2016). And she says she can eat Vietnamese food “all the time and any time.”
As a student, Trammell attended The New York Times Student Journalism Institute. She additionally earned a bachelor’s in political science with a minor in Spanish. Trammell is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Online News Association.
Registration is now available for the Spring Workshop and will remain open through April 6. A mini-workshop will kick off the day from 9 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. followed by a banquet-style awards luncheon and keynote address at noon.