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Mandy Jenkins didn’t go to a big university (she’s a Kent State grad) and she says she didn’t have an impressive portfolio, either. So when Jenkins began her post-graduate job search, she also started learning about multimedia.<\/p>\n

That self-education has paid off. Jenkins’ savvy skills have created job positions and landed jobs that will ensure a successful career. She now works as social media producer at TBD.com<\/a>, a new website startup that has the attention of of the media world. The TV-affliliated website delivers local news and community information for Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mandy Jenkins didn’t go to a big university (she’s a Kent State grad) and she says she didn’t have an impressive portfolio, either. So when Jenkins began her post-graduate job search, she also started learning about multimedia. That self-education has paid off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaWrG-ps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}