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[Phone:+33 (0)6 81 17 00 50 Mail: claireulrich at yahoo.fr Skype: claireulrich Twitter @ClaireInParis]
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News & media professional - 20-year experience in national French newsweeklies and broadcast media as staff writer, editor, producer, manager- 4-year in online news and collaborative media. Translation/localization professional (French, English, Italian)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRESENT
LOCALIZATION : Localization/translation of LinkedIn social network (30 million members) into French. The French version of LinkedIn launched in Nov. 2008
OFF LINE MEDIA
Contributing writer for Le Monde week-end supplement, Groupe Hachette monthly magazines, hyper-local French newspapers ( PHCR Publishing Group). Media for migrants : French Ministry of Health outreach project for African migrants in France, to raise awareness on health issues.
ON LINE MEDIA
Editor of Global Voices in French, French version of the non-profit global news website Global Voices. Global Voices is a global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.
Tech news for industry website on RSS and syndication. Korean information website Ohmynews [see articles].
Social network consultant for Francophilia, a social network and e-commerce site for francophiles. PR agency Denis&Co , ethnic marketing agency SOPI , Tv production agencies Fremantle Media, Effervescence Prod. Guest lecturer at EMI-CFD school for graphic artists.
BROADCAST MEDIA
FRANCE 2 TV
Editor in chief (2002-2003)
Editorial manager of a weekly Court-TV programme. Supervised legal research. Managed team of four journalists and four production assistants. Supervised studio taping and editing. Coordination with French Department of Justice, legal experts. Reported to FRANCE 2 management.
ASP Productions - Metropole Television (M6)
Editor in chief (summer 2002)
Supervised editing and story-board of a summer real-TV serie for teen-agers, “Operation seduction”, aired weekly (8 x 60 minutes). Average weekly audience: 3-4 millions. Average market-share: 18%
French TV chanels TF1 - FRANCE 2 - FRANCE 3 - M6 TV
Free-lance writer, reporter and producer (1999-2002)
Wrote, directed and produced tv features and documentaries on news and current affairs (France & International) for established French TV news magazines such as “Le droit de savoir”, “Sept à huit” (TF1 channel), “Envoyé spécial”, “Argent public” (France 2 channel) “Capital”, “Destins”(M6 TV).
Topics: current affairs, consumer advocacy, business sagas, health and medical issues, general interest. A selection of my documentaries are available on the French VOD website Vodeo.(In "advanced search", tick "realisateurs" and type "Claire Ulrich" in box)
CAPA TV NEWS AGENCY
Staff reporter and producer (1996-1999)
Reported and produced tv items for outsourced tv show aired daily on national French channel FRANCE 3. Topics: current affairs, trends, life-style, fashion, health, law, environment, parenting, travelling, consumer advocacy.
PUBLISHING INDUSTRY
L’EVENEMENT DU JEUDI
Staff reporter (1988-1996)
Reported and wrote features and profiles for eight years in leading national French newsweekly. National & international news and current affairs, trends, politics, medias. Covered environmental issues.
Contributed Interviews, profiles and book reviews to the Art & Culture section. Assignment editor for special dossiers.
PARIS-MATCH
Staff reporter(1986-1987)
Reporter for the local French news section of the national weekly. Assignments editor for contributing writers and photo reporters. Supervised Lay-out.
MAGAZINES
Free-lance features writer (1990 - present) for French magazines Marie-Claire - ELLE - L’Européen - Cosmopolitan - Gala - Téléstar-Télévision Magazine - Maximal. Radio: supervised daily two-hours national talk show on consumer rights for national radio RMC-INFO (spring 2001).
BOOK: L'été d'une localière (2005) a chronicle of hyper-local journalism in the South of France, based on my experience as local correspondent for a tiny rural newspaper (also a blog, see La Locale)
Pro-bono : Volunteer teacher of French as a foreign language with first generation Chinese migrants in Paris.
Languages
French (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Italian (fluent)
German (some)
Raised in Western and Central Africa – lived at length in England and Italy - professional and personal trips to Europe, USA, Australia, Asia, and Africa
IT & on-line social media
Softwares: Microsoft Office pack, basic html and Dreamweaver, Adobe desktop publishing, Mindmanager, SEO, semantic SEO (Arisem). At home with on-line social media tools (blogging platforms, tagging, aggregators, RSS & syndication,wikies)
Education
2003-2004:full-time postgraduate degree, on-line business information and competitive intelligence at ESIEE, a postgraduate school run by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.Interned at Brussels Knowledge Center, McKinsey & Company. Researched and authored a market research report on ethnic markets in France,“Targeting diasporas in France".
Professional memberships
French press card
Board member of SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédias), the French broadcasting copyright agency
Honors
2005: wrote and co-directed documentary on animal behaviour selected for Tv documentary award (FIGRA). General-interest articles published in German scolastic text-books (French as a foreign language).
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