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20+ years’ experience as a newspaper reporter, photojournalist, travel writre and medical editor with project management experience. Proficient with CMS, WordPress and Blogger publishing platforms.

Objective: Position in writing, editing, publishing, consulting and/or marketing communications

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Journalist 1980s–Present
Chicago Sun-Times, Digital Journal, Reuters

• Travel writer for Cvent, the largest online event planning company in the U.S. (used by over 10,000 event/marketing professionals with over 50,000 events planned per year), writing destination guides for U.S. cities. Example: Knoxville

• 20+ years’ experience as a newspaper reporter and photojournalist. Feature stories, local government, planning and zoning, political races, school board meetings, police and crime beat, obituaries

• Nationally syndicated blogger with articles appearing in Reuters (Infamous Romanian eBay Hacker Arrested); (Big Bad Bear Stearns Bites the Dust) (4,000 U.S. Troops Dead in Iraq) (Dementia Linked to Diabetes and Hypertension) (Hachiko, the Dog Who Made Richard Gere Cry) (Mexico Reclaims American Southwest in Vodka Ad, Absolut Apologizes) (Daffodils and Dementia) (Master Heart Cells Created for Heart Disease Treatment) (Patrick Swayze’s Pancreatic Cancer Spreads); the Chicago Sun-Times (President Bush’s Misplaced Priorities and New Orleans Firefighters), (Beware the Nigerian Puppy Scam), (Baby with Two Faces Revered as Goddess in India); and CT Green Scene (Earth Hour Goes Global on Saturday)

• Numerous articles published by Digital Journal online news network

• Kentucky and Wyoming state editor at BlogNetNews, approving/declining new blog applications and recruiting noteworthy political blogs. Doubled Kentuckiana feeds and built Wyoming political blog feed from scratch. Southeastern U.S. editor as of 1 July 2008.

• Spring 2008 medical article in Senior Care Canada documenting PDA-based ClearScribe software which electronically transmits prescriptions/medical records between Health Canada and care providers throughout Canada

• Marketing for Toronto-based Lifecapture Interactive, promoting Tommy Lee Jones/Woody Harrelson movie, No Country for Old Men

• AuctionBytes, trade publication for online merchants. Articles include eBay Introduces ‘To Go,’ Its First Widget and Two Online Auction Sites for Postcard Collectors and Dealers

• Pajamadeen.com, own/developed nationally syndicated news and political commentary blog. Familiar with XHTML coding, photo placement, content management systems and other news coverage skills

• Regularly featured at BlogHer.com (politically active community of women bloggers) and at Blogging Change, a progressive network of Canadian journalists

• The Latest Word, wrote new medications column for bimonthly newsletter circulated to hospitals and physicians throughout the United States, published by W. B. Saunders of Philadelphia

Historic Preservation Consultant, 1980s-Present
Website development, real estate feasibility studies, environmental impact statements

• VintagePostcards.org: Own/developed ongoing website, writing all text, scanning, coding, etc., presenting history and the built environment of the Nipissing and Parry Sound (Canada) districts as seen in vintage postcards. Pages such as those about North Bay, Sturgeon Falls and Mattawa are used to teach history at Canadian universities including Nipissing University’s Institute for Community Studies and Oral History (ICSOH)

• Spring 2007 Association of American Geographers meeting in San Francisco: York University (Toronto) presentation on Northern Ontario Indian tribes illustrated with our Temagami native American images

• Supply postcard scans used to teach digital photography at the Open University in Milton-Keynes, England (Total enrollment: 180,000). Scans also used by the Ontario Heritage Trust to document historic buildings in North Bay for registry inclusion, and to illustrate North Bay architecture in the 2007 Doors Open Ontario historic preservation walking tour

• Restored three Victorian homes and landscapes as general contractor; consulted with numerous investors, providing feasibility studies re: profitability of potential residential and commercial rehabs

• Consultant to State of Kentucky providing environmental impact statements regarding impact of proposed road developments on fabric of historic built environment as per Federal guidelines

• Historic preservation planner, Florida Department of State. Advisor to Architectural Review Board, City of Pensacola, FL. Grant writing, fund raising, public education, media interviews

• Hardin County historic sites survey in conjunction with the Kentucky Heritage Council/the Hardin County Planning and Development commission, identifying sites eligible for National Register of Historic Places and Kentucky Register of Historic Places inclusion

COMPUTER, TECHNICAL AND OTHER SKILLS

• Proficient with Windows and Mac operating systems, Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Outlook)

• Strong grasp of Internet technologies including website building/ working with web designers, SEO techniques, newsletters, WordPress and Blogger platforms, container management systems, graphics software

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: Master’s Degree, Urban and Regional Planning with concentration in historic preservation planning, honors. Certified architectural historian.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: B.A., American Studies, honors

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Nominated for 2008 “Women Making History Online” blogging award for Women’s History Month at Women’s Voices. Women Vote

• Nominated for Fulbright fellowship

REFERENCES

Contact information provided upon request

• Chris Hogg/Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, Digital Journal

  Company Description: DigitalJournal.com is an online news network covering daily and breaking news. It is read by millions daily.

• Ina Steiner, Editor, AuctionBytes

  Company Description: The leading online news network for online auctions and Internet merchants.

• Aura Novembre, Publisher Relations Manager, Newstex

  Company Description: Newstex offers Content On Demand® and Blogs On Demand™, including real-time news and commentary from thousands of branded newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds and blogs. Newstex collects full-text digital news and commentary feeds, adds stock ticker symbols, and delivers the results via XML or RSS newsfeeds. In 2007, Newstex was selected for the EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry and Blogs On Demand was voted top New Technology in Information Today’s People’s Choice Awards.