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Christopher Louis Mistrot

Award-Winning Media Professional
Television • Film • Internet
Screenwriter • Video Journalist • Fine Art Photographer • Video Editor • Film Editor • Engineer

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

KPIX-TV, San Francisco CBS5 2002 - Present
• Award-winning photojournalist
• Collaborate with editorial team to suggest, develop, produce and enhance news stories
• Field produce, photograph and edit daily television reports for evening newscasts with local, national and global coverage
• Interact daily with public officials and media relations representatives to ensure news coverage at locations otherwise closed to the public
• Secure interview subjects and maintain extensive contact lists for daily news reports and in-depth broadcast specials
• Convert television broadcast reports into video format for website; provide additional content to generate more traffic to website
• Senior satellite truck operator and engineer
• Trainer for new non-linear editors joining the CBS 5 news team
• 2006 Emmy award for technical achievement
• 2005 Radio Television News Directors Association feature news report award
• 2004 Society of Professional Journalists photography award

KSAZ FOX 10, Phoenix 1999 - 2002
• Award-winning breaking news and sports photojournalist
• Broadcast live news events via satellite and microwave
• Worked in harms way in numerous situations
• Edited daily news and promotable feature stories
• Created and maintained personal video Web site

KUTV CBS 2, Salt Lake City 1996 - 1999
• Edward R. Murrow Award-winner for tornado disaster
• Associated Press Award for spot news coverage
• Daily news photographer and editor

WGRZ NBC 2, Buffalo 1996
• Creative Services department producer
• Created daily topical promotions for news

KKTV CBS 11, Colorado Springs 1994 - 1996
• Principal editor for enterprise long-form series
• News photojournalist

KVBA TV-8, Vail 1990 - 1994
• Operations Manager, responsible for annual capital improvement budget, trained and supervised studio broadcast crew
• Director, video switcher and audio engineer for live daily three hour broadcast
• Designed and built television broadcast control room and studio
• Produced, shot and edited television commercials for local companies
• Expert ski photographer, principal 16mm film cameraman, producer and editor for international ski campaign

COMPUTER AND TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Photoshop, HTML authoring, Web site design and publishing, video and text blogging, podcasting, social networking sites, Windows, OSX, Final Cut Pro, AVID, Adobe Premiere, FTP, Satellite communications, wireless networks, content servers, hardware repair and maintenance

EDUCATION:

Brooks Institute of Photographic Science, Santa Barbara BS, Film/Video Production 1990
• Studio, industrial, illustrative, portrait, fine art photography
• Minor in business administration

Country

United States

Occupation

PHOTOJOURNALIST

Companies

KPIX CBS 5

Schools

BROOKS INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SCIENCE

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