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Experience: 
 
			   Current Magazine/Newsweek.com                
2007 to Present   Contributing Writer & Photographer                        		New York, NY  
			    -Wrote 3,500-word magazine cover-story on Iraq war veterans attending college
			    -Interviewed and shot portraits of inmates inside a maximum security prison

   			   New York Times Student Journalism Institute                  
January 2007  	    Multiple Media Reporter	                        				Miami, FL  
			    -Shot photos published in The New York Times National Report
		
			    New York Post					 				        New York, NY 
Fall 2006	   	    Contributing Columnist 
			    -Wrote and reported innovative stories for the Op-Ed pages 

   			    Fox News Channel      				 			        New York, NY 
Summer 2006     Reporting Intern       
			    -Reported and wrote briefs on the rebuilding of New Orleans for the Director of News-
                           gathering that were distributed to reporter/producer teams traveling to the Gulf Coast
 			
			    Columbia Daily Spectator      						New York, NY 
Spring 2007	     Multimedia Editor 
			    -Established the first multimedia department at an Ivy League student newspaper
2005 to 2007  	    Reporter       
			    -Scooped an interview with former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz  
 
   			    New York City EMS							          Bronx, NY 
2005 to Present   911 Paramedic  (multiple agencies)
 
			    United States Forest Service  
2001, 2002, 2004  Wildland Fire Fighter               						   CA & MT  

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Education: 
  			      Columbia University       							New York, NY 
Expected May 2008  BA in Political Science, GPA 3.6        

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Honors:
 			-Eric Breindel Award for College Journalism. Awarded a $10,000 cash prize 
                      and a summer internship at the Fox News Channel
			-First Runner-Up, Best Feature Writing in Newsweek Magazine’s Current 
			 Project for Student Journalism Award Series  
			-National Association of Hispanic Journalists Newhouse Scholar
			-Alfred E. Golin Prize for Promise in Journalism from Columbia University

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Matt Mireles
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Matt Mireles
Inspired Journalism. Multiple Media.
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