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.