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ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, COPY EDITOR
Professional Profile

Newspaper editor and writer with management experience and exceptional people skills. Versed in social media, page design and other facets of print and digital publishing. Looking for new opportunities and advancement in the communications industry.

Qualifications
  • News, features, column and review writing.
  • Copy editing and page design on daily newspaper deadline schedule.
  • Quick learner, team player and independent self-starter.
  • Proficient in Adobe InDesign, InCopy & Illustrator, Word, Facebook, Twitter and Mac operations.
Relevant Experience

Art and drawing.

  • Freelanced editorial cartoons, advertising art and magazine- and newspaper-quality illustrations.
Experience
Entertainment Editor, Copy Editor
June 1987 to November 2015The News-Gazette － Champaign, Illinois
  • Work involves page design & pagination, using InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, etc.; writing a weekly entertainment column (titled "Frank's Faves"); utilizing social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) to direct online readership to print & website coverage; and some oversight of weekly entertainment section & daily coverage; as well as general editing, headline writing, proofreading, etc.
  • Responsibilities have also included Sunday front & local news pages & business section.
  • From 2005 to 2010, served as entertainment editor, with responsibility for daily entertainment pages and weekend section, as well as oversight of local free-lance reviewers, columnists and correspondents, and some feature writing.
  • I have also freelanced approximately 100 concert reviews for print editions.
Copy Editor
March 1985 to June 1987Corpus Christi Caller-Times － Corpus Christi, Texas
  • General editing/proofreading; headline writing; page design, etc., as well as some.
  • oversight of weekend copy desk & layout of weekend news editions.
Reporter, Staff Writer
October 1981 to October 1984Marshall News Messenger － Marshall, Texas
  • Covered police and courts beat for three years.
  • Also did a lot of feature.
  • writing, stringer sports reporting and photography, and freelanced as editorial artist and.
  • cartoonist for the paper and its "East Texas" magazine.
Editor, Reporter
July 1980 to October 1981Mason County Democrat － Havana, Illinois
  • Hired as a general news reporter, promoted to chief editor in September 1980.
  • Work involved editorial writing and cartooning, reporting (including city and county government, school boards, etc., plus sports) editing, photography, layout & graphics.
  • Freelancer.
  • In addition to freelancing cartoons, reviews, etc.
  • for newspapers I've worked at, have also sold articles, artwork & photos to regional and online magazines, trade publications and advertisers.
  • Spent November 1984 - January 1985 at writer's colony in Lake Forest, Ill., working on the first draft of my first novel.
  • Other major projects include a 4' X 4' illustrated map (acrylic paint on plywood) for the picture window of the Marshall Tourism Center and "official artist" of the East Texas FireAnt Festival, 1983.
Education
Bachelor of Science : Journalism, May 10, 1980Northern Illinois University － Dekalb, ILGPA: GPA: 3.26

GPA: 3.26 Reporter, DeKalb News Service; editorial cartoonist, Northern Star (campus newspaper;) Kappa Tau Alpha honor society; intramural sports.

Associate of Science : college transfer, May 15, 1978College of Lake County － Grayslake, ILGPA: GPA: 3.82

GPA: 3.82. Disc jockey and news editor, WLC Radio; reporter and news editor, the Chronicle (campus newspaper).

Personal Information
Additional Information
  • AWARDS First-place for Arts & Entertainment Section in 2008 Illinois Press Association Newspaper Contest. Third-place for Reviews in 2006 Illinois Press Association's Best of the Press contest. Second-place for Headline Writing in 1997 Illinois Press Association Newspaper Contest. Second-place for Interpretive and/or Investigative Project or Series in Harte-Hanks Communications' 1981-82 Writing Contest. Third-place awards for Local Editorial and Best Sports Writing in 1981 Illinois Press Association Newspaper Contest.
Skills

free-lance artist, editorial cartooning, copy editing, entertainment editor, feature writing, graphics, Illustrator, InDesign, page layout, newspapers, novel writing, news and sports photography, proofreading, publications, radio, police and government reporting, website editing.

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • The News-Gazette
  • Corpus Christi Caller-Times
  • Marshall News Messenger
  • Mason County Democrat

School Attended

  • Northern Illinois University
  • College of Lake County

Job Titles Held:

  • Entertainment Editor, Copy Editor
  • Copy Editor
  • Reporter, Staff Writer
  • Editor, Reporter

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science : Journalism , May 10, 1980
    Associate of Science : college transfer , May 15, 1978

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