An editor with more than 12 years experience in the USA and in the United Kingdom.
Proven skills include:
• The recruitment, training and close supervision of a newsgathering team to transform a lackluster community newspaper into an influential news product.
• Professional AP-style copy-editing, layout and design skills.
• Running an effective newsroom, on a shoestring budget, to produce high-quality newspapers in San Diego's South County.
• Rapid conversion of problematic copy into publishable material.
• News reporting, feature writing, copy editing, assignment editing and pagination.
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel) Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Acrobat and html.