Medical Assistant

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October 31, 2010

CHARLES DICKINSON

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WORK HISTORY:

American Medical News

Copy edited the bi-weekly newspaper and its Web site, amednews.com,

both of which are owned by the American Medical Association. The newspaper

has a circulation of 238,000, with all its content geared toward doctors or

other members of the health care field.

Patch.com

Worked for the AOL-owned service that provides hyper-local coverage

of Chicago suburbs. I was part of a team gathering information, taking

digital photos and writing profiles of local businesses and uploading it

all to the Patch.com website.

Chicago Tribune

Assistant Subject Editor: Edited news copy, wrote headlines and

checked page proofs. As one of two slots in a 30-person Metro desk

operation, I had responsibility under intense deadline pressure for back-

checking the work of other copy editors while also developing their editing

and headline-writing skills.

Under the hyper-intense deadlines of ChicagoTribune.com, I edited

breaking news stories and rapidly moved them onto the Web. I possess some

HTML skills.

Chicago Sun-Times

Copy Editor: Worked primarily on News copy desk. Also served on

Financial and Features desks. Worked slot on nine-person News desk.

Designed pages as a News Editor. Assembled news stories as Wire Editor.

Field Graphics

Proofreader: On deadline, I back-checked ad copy for special-interest

magazines, business journals, local shoppers, and a variety of other

publications.

Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern University

Adjunct Professor: I ran a lab that contained 12-15 graduate students

per quarter, teaching them copy editing, headline writing, style, fact

checking and page design.

EDUCATION:

University of Kentucky, Lexington; B.A. in Journalism