MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST. TEACHER. WRITER, DRAWER.

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Adobe CC expertise (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects)
Strong branding and marketing sensibility
Social media expertise in multiple platform management
Capable with any content management system, plug-and-play/basic markup web development, Squarespace

20-year Multimedia Journalist
Specializing in Food, Art, and Culture Features
Comfortable in front, and behind camera
Can shoot and produce independently

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2023 :: IN PEOPLE

The most common, perhaps only, unifier to be found in news photography: people. What did we as people do that was new today? A person did some new here. Some people did some new there. A collection of people endeavoring in the new,

2023 :: IN YOUTH

#communitynews photography invariably involves young people — at play, at functions, taking themselves seriously, making fools of themselves, helping each other, making messes — being little humans figuring it out for th

2023 :: IN BASKETBALL

#basketball is my favorite sport to play and shoot because the competition is person to person, with the goal up and above. So in terms of shapes, of figures in play, the people are always in tension with each other, but lookin

2023 :: IN SPORTS

Even in competition, there is cooperation; an agreement of respect, an understanding of limits, the contract of boundaries, the implied health desired for after.

This year found some great moments in unexpected cooperations of co

2023 :: IN FOOTBALL

Nothing quite provides action and emotion like football. All sports produce anguish and elation, but only in football is it all multiplied by a minimum of 22.

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• The subject of a controversial game-changing pe

2023 :: IN ART

From productions to painting, Toledo always has art “happening.” In these photos, each performance reveals the impact of art on people who savor and labor for art /work./

• Visitors passing through the Monroe St. ent

2023 :: IN FOOD

Food is always about the people who touch it, who make it for you, who give service to your seeking of sustenance. In these shots, the food is of course secondary to the hands and smiles presenting it.

• Jaclyn Curry, of Black

@toledowalleye hockey is back!

Toledo Walleye defender Matt Anderson is upended by Kalamazoo Wings defender Connor Walters in a preseason ECHL hockey game on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 at the Huntington Center in downtown Toledo.

📸 @thebladenews

Polar bear cubs Kallik and Kallu, meaning Thunder and Lightning, spend their first day on display with their mother Crystal @thetoledozoo

A nice product shot of a margarita flight — coconut, jalapeño, golden, and strawberry — from @carlospocoloco in uptown Toledo around mid Feb., in preparation for “National Margarita Day'' on Feb. 22. The ‘food holiday&r

Screenshots are multimedia. I can’t be stopped! 📸😉

Thank you @onpa_1951

This is my favorite professional achievement to date! The photography staff of @thebladenews teaches me everything everyday, so grateful to work with all of them, pre

Tonight, the full half hour documentary, “The Trail Fire of 1961: Toledo Firefighting’s Deadliest Disaster,” will premiere @imaginationstationtoledo KeyBank Discovery Theater. (Show at 6p, doors at 5, if you’re interested

The #oldwestendfestival2023 was this weekend and for the first time I was able to work the parade coverage for @thebladenews

The best homes in America threaded by the funnest parade is an ideal subject for a sights/sounds style video. If you enjoyed

Current Projects

Visual Storytelling Adjunct Owens Community College
Produce Online Food Shows :: Cheap Eats / Dinner For One / Plates & People
Started Audio Dept. at The Blade
Produced/hosted/branded three podcasts :: Code 18: Unsolved / The Exercise Room / Noted in Toledo
Branded, developed the blade's instagram @thebladenews
Branded, developed, and maintain online archive licensing and memorabilia system :: thebladevault.com
Designed "TOLEDO LOVES ITS JEEP," the only Blade published book to enter a second printing

AWARDS

Ohio Newspaper Photographer’s Association Multimedia Photographer of the Year (Honorable)
Best Podcast: ONPA, Touchstone Award
Best Local Food Show: Touchstone Award

VOLUNTEER

Engage Toledo Ambassador, Spoken Toledo Host, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Poetry/Literature Judge and Event Assistant, Public Speaking (Toledo Early College, Ottawa Hills High School, Toledo School for the Arts)

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FULL Experience

OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE [2020-PRST]

ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR FOR VISUAL STORYTELLING

Teach media literacy and multimedia production skills in a news media format

TOLEDO BLADE [2013-PRST]

On-Camera/Podcast Personality, A/V Production, Feature PHOTOJournalism + WRITING, Illustration,
Graphic Design, Photo Editing, Branding

Produce print and digital specialty stories and publications; manage licensing of Blade media
Lead designer of book Toledo Loves Its Jeep

INDEPENDENT CREATIVE [2008-PRST]

Public Speaking, Writing Graphic Design, Illustration

Most Recent: Spoken Toledo, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Siena Heights University

TREO RESTAURANT & ONE2 LOUNGE [2010-12]

General Manager, Graphic & INTERIOR Designer

Conceptualize, brand, implement and manage a jazz bar; run all social media platforms to engage clientele

PAIN MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES [2008-10] :: Chicago, Illinois

Contract Creative for various micro-brands in the sports medicine field

Write, edit copy from brand strategies to customer mailers — generate and edit content for print and Web collateral
Graphic design, illustration, studio photography

MIDWEST CURRENT [2007] :: Chicago, Illinois

Writer/Graphic Designer/Illustrator/Photographer

Create prototype magazine and website for Northwestern University’s Magazine Project

TOLEDO CITY PAPER [2005-06]

Staff Writer/Photographer/Graphic Designer

Write and photograph features and profiles

GREENE COUNTY DAILIES [2002-04]

BUREAU CHIEF FAIRBORN DAILY HERALD, Staff Writer/Photographer XENIA DAILY GAZETTE

Write and photograph features and profiles

Education

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

MASTER OF SCIENCE, JOURNALISM, 2007

focus: magazine design, writing and production
skills: multimedia journalism, photography, writing, editing, editorial illustration, reporting, branding, A/V production

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS, ART & TECHNOLOGY, 2001

focus: 2d visual communication, photography, A/V production
minor: English (Creative Writing)
minor: Business (Marketing)

Contact

Email: filkaplan@gmail.com

Phone: 614.595.8683

LOCATION: OLD WEST END, TOLEDO, OH