Copywriting

Editor/Online Producer/Multimedia Editor Tampa Tribune & TBO.com, (Feb. 2003 - July 2010)Editor of 4 weekly papers; combined circulation of 130,000. Oversaw staff of 5 reporters, photographer and coordinated all photos, layout and stories with design department.Promoted to newly created position of Website Coordinator in 2009. Responsible for teaching editors and reporters at eight local newspapers how to use their new websites. Edited and posted video, photos and stories to website in addition in to creating new web pages and building various multimedia projects. Headed Media General team to develop a company-wide policy for user-generated content. Successfully implemented new policy at all of our local papers leading to weekly pages of user generated content from readers in all Tampa area papers. Created and coordinated Graduation Photo Project at TBO.com. The project drew more than 400,000 pages views, among the top stories of the year at TBO. Headed community outreach, speaki