Mollie Bryant
Oklahoma City, OK
(405) 990-0988
bryant@bigiftrue.org 

Tech skills: Website and content management, WordPress, search engine optimization, video and audio editing, podcasting, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite with an Excel emphasis, Sony Vegas, data visualization, mobile technology and social media

Work Experience

CEO and Editor / BigIfTrue.org / 2017 to present / Oklahoma City, OK

• Founded nonprofit news site BigIfTrue.org, which focuses on inequality in the United States
• Fundraise in support of BigIfTrue.org’s mission to educate the public through nonpartisan journalism
• Edit and report in-depth and investigative news stories
• Collaborate on joint journalism projects with other news organizations, including Oklahoma Gazette, The Curbside Chronicle and other members of the Oklahoma Media Center
• Produce BigIfTrue.org’s newsletter to connect our readers with news stories on the ways inequality affects Americans at the local level; to highlight reports from local news organizations across the country; and update our subscribers on our most recent work
• From 2019 to 2021, co-hosted and co-produced our podcast, Hard Reset, which aired as a program on radio stations KXRW in Vancouver, Washington and KXRY in Portland, Oregon

Consultant / American Press Institute / 2019 to present

• Write Need to Know, API’s daily newsletter on innovation in the journalism industry, at least once a week

Investigative Reporter / Oklahoma Watch / 2017 / Oklahoma City, OK

• Wrote award-winning enterprise stories on Oklahoma politics and state agencies
• Developed databases using information from public records and online sources
• Connected with our audience and donors during Oklahoma Watch events, including panels and meet-and-greets

 State Investigative Reporter / The Clarion-Ledger / 2015 to 2016 / Jackson, MS      

• Reported in-depth, hard-hitting investigative stories for Mississippi’s state newspaper
• Wrote weekly and daily enterprise pieces while pursuing long-term projects and covering breaking news as needed
• Filed weekly records requests and mined reports and online resources for data
• Created databases that allowed readers to dive deeper into investigative stories
• Mentored and served as sounding board for other reporters when it came to records requests, data and other investigative journalism tactics

Education and Enterprise Reporter / The Amarillo Globe-News / 2013 to 2015 / Amarillo, Texas                                

• Balanced the regional education beat with enterprise projects in education, law enforcement and other areas
• From 2014 to 2015, shot photography and video for every story, including interview segments with our AGN-TV anchor; edited video using Sony Vegas
• Collaborated with our web guru to create online story elements, including databases, slideshows and graphics

Breaking News Reporter / The Amarillo Globe-News / 2012 to 2013

Reporter / The Pampa News / 2011 to 2012 / Pampa, Texas                                                  

• Covered a wide range of local news at a small-town daily newspaper, including city and county government, education, cops and courts, business, energy, health, agriculture and the arts
• Wrote a weekly humor column
• Assisted with layout using InDesign
• Contributed photography to the front page
• Managed publication’s web content and social media

Education:

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, minor in Sociology
Southwestern University
Georgetown, Texas, 2008