Emily Babay

After the National Zoo said its female giant panda was pregnant, I created a photo gallery of mother Mei Xiang and the last panda cub born at the zoo, Tai Shan. I researched and selected photos, lightly edited captions and produced the gallery. Click the photo to see the gallery on washingtonexaminer.com.

During the 2012 Republican National Convention, a reporter and I created a Storify compiling guesses about the RNC’s mystery speaker. Our blog post on the speculation was one of the most-read items on washingtonexaminer.com during the convention.

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The day Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, I created a Storify of their campaign stops in Virginia, compiling videos, photographs and context about the events.

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When I major storm hit the D.C. area, I compiled residents’ reactions and photographs in a Storify. I also ran the Washington Examiner’s local news Twitter account the day after storm, providing updates on deaths, power outages and resources.

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I created a map with the locations of and information about a series of kidnappings targeting older men in Wheaton, Md.

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Live tweets from the courtroom during jury deliberations, the verdict and sentencing for a woman charged with murder in the death of her 2-year-old granddaughter.

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When several D.C.-area military buildings were fired at in a series of overnight shootings, I created a map with the locations of the buildings, descriptions of the incidents and links to my stories.

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Live tweets — over several days — with updates from the courtroom during jury selection in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, accused of killing D.C. intern Chandra Levy.

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During my term as The Daily Pennsylvanian’s online editor, I managed our social media accounts on on Twitter and Facebook.

Over the course of the year, traffic to the DP’s web site from Facebook increased by nearly 200 percent. Twitter was rarely used before 2009, and became one of the top referring sites to thedp.com during my tenure as editor.

I used Twitter extensively to report on breaking news events, such as a shooting on campus and a fire in a dorm, while also writing articles for the web site.

During my internship at the World-Herald, I compiled information on Fourth of July celebrations in Omaha and throughout Nebraska, and managed an online map with the location and details of each.

The map was updated multiple times during the week before Independence Day, and can be viewed here.