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Bio: Arthur K. Lenehan

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Summary

A recognized national leader in web communications. Creator of multimedia

products that have built audience, increased engagement, and won multiple

national awards for editorial quality on the web. Technically astute in

C#/LINQ/Silverlight, AS3/Flash, Agile development and all aspects of

interactive video. Winner of the Loeb Award for online coverage of

financial news both in 2008, for "Keeping Up with the Wangs," and in 2009,

for "Middle Class Crunch." Winner of the Gold Medal from the national

society of Investigative Reporters and Editors in 2006, for the multimedia

project "Toxic Legacy."

Experience

Dec. 2009 to present: Projects editor, CBS Interactive. Nature of the

project is confidential, for the time being.

June 2009 to present: Managing partner, Kinnective, LLC: Kinnective

explains complex products and services visually, on the web. Main focus is

on patient information for large medical practices and hospitals, to reduce

"chair time" that doctors spend explaining complicated health problems and

the solutions they offer. Site is here.

April 2006 to May 2009: Managing Editor, MSN Money. Developed breakthrough

video and multimedia platforms for Microsoft. Led the team that engineered

MSN's first Flash video and first multimedia platforms. Built a desktop-

based video studio in midtown Manhattan, fully replicating broadcast

functionality at a fraction of the cost. Hired and trained a new multimedia

team. One staffer crisscrossed China with a video camera in a knapsack,

documenting the rise of the Chinese middle class in "Keeping Up with the

Wangs," the project that won the Loeb Award for online content in 2008. A

follow-up project, "Middle Class Crunch," won the Loeb in 2009.

Jan to March, 2006: Internet consultant at the New York Daily News.

Developed a plan to rebuild the web presence of the country's fifth largest

newspaper.

2001 to 2006: Managing Editor, The Record, New Jersey. Supervision of a

news staff of 250 at the newspaper that dominated investigative coverage

and editorial awards at the state level, despite competition from a rival

three times its size. Led continuous improvement effort in the newsroom. In

2005, the newspaper produced a web-based multimedia investigative project

entitled "Toxic Legacy." In recognizing this project with a gold medal, its

highest award, the national Society of Investigative Reporters and Editors

called the project a "landmark work" and added:

This work stood out not only for its exhaustive reporting and clear

writing, but for its riveting multimedia presentation, which set a

standard to which larger publications and broadcast outlets should

aspire.

1995 to 2000: Assistant Managing Editor, Electronic-News, The Star-Ledger,

New Jersey: Planned and led one of the nation's most aggressive and most

successful media convergence efforts, integrating TV, web, and print

coverage at News12 New Jersey, njo.com, and the Star-Ledger. Built low-cost

system to automate Star-Ledger news feeds to the web. Trained print

reporters for on-air reports at no cost and coordinated their efforts with

TV staff.

1993 to 1995: Team Leader, Star-Ledger digital color transition team.

Developed seamless end-to-end composition and prepress systems at the Star-

Ledger, investing $2 million to build what was recognized the next year as

one of the top color printing programs in the country. This system became

the standard for other Newhouse newspapers across the country.

1986 to 1994: Photo, design, graphics editor, The Star-Ledger. Planned and

installed a digital photo system, eliminating film and cutting costs.

Planned and implemented a quality control system for photos based on the

statistical principals of Edwards Demming. Hired and developed photo team

that later won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Hired and

trained design staff that went on to win the "Best in Show" award from the

national Society of Newspaper Design the same year.

Skills:

. Interactive video: Five years experience on major digital media

projects, including three years working closely with MSN video team.

Deep experience with REST web services interlocking with Flash and

Silverlight UI for video apps. Previous broadcast experience with

Cablevision News12 in N. J.

. Flash/Actionscript: Hands-on code literate with deep experience in the

trenches of web deployment as the backstop debugger of video apps.

Deep experience with the player object, encoders, CODECs. Well

acquainted with many of top people in the business.

. Silverlight/XAML/LINQ:Worked closely with Microsoft Silverlight team

as the SL tools were built. Led Silverlight UI design/dev effort on a

major MSN interactive video project. Well versed in C# and LINQ for

parsing of the xml data, as well as with player UI, CODECs.

. Design/UI: Deep experience of prototyping, usability testing,

iterative/Agile development process for rapid development and

improvement of web apps. Built a newspaper design department

recognized as the best in the country.

. Other: Facebook Connect, Adobe Creative Studio, basic SQL

. Writing/editing/editorial: Recognized as one of the top business

writers in the country by the American Association of Newspaper

Editors. Recruited, trained, and managed teams that have won every

major award in American journalism.

As a reporter:

First to describe in complete detail the "Pizza Connection" heroin ring, an

offshoot of the Gambino crime family. First to fully explain the

environmental problems that finally blocked the construction of New York

City's multi-billion dollar Westway highway project, conceived as the

biggest public works project in history.

Awards

Winner, The Loeb Award for Online, 2009. This is the country's most

prestigious award for financial news coverage. For MSN's multimedia

project on the travails of the American middle class, "Middle Class

Crunch."

Winner, The Loeb Award for Online, 2008, for "Keeping Up With the

Wangs."

Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors

and Writers, 2008, for "Keeping Up With the Wangs."

Gold Medal, the organization's highest award, from Investigative

Reporters and Editors, 2006, as ME of The Record, for "Toxic Legacy" -

a series on the dumping of lead paint by Ford Motor Company in the

woods of northern New Jersey..

Best Investigative Project, over 100,0000 circ, Society of

Professional Journalists, 2006, for "Toxic Legacy"

Best Special Feature, Internet, Editor and Publisher, 2006, for "Toxic

Legacy"

Finalist for the Online News Association's Knight Public Service

Award, 2006, for "Toxic Legacy"

Record writers won the Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative

Journalism, New York City Deadline Club, both 2003 and 2004

Deadline Club's public service award for 2004

NYC Silurian Club award for investigative journalism, spring 2004

(NYC).

Record and Ledger design staffs received dozens of awards from the

national Society of Newspaper Design, including "Best in Show" for the

Ledger in 2001

Photo staff built at the Star-Ledger wins Pulitzer Prize for feature

photography, 2001

Record was named best major newspaper in New Jersey by the New Jersey

Press Association three years in a row, 2003, 2004, 2005.

As a reporter, Art was named one of top news feature writers in the

U.S. by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (category was

business writing).

Education

Columbia College, BA English (Merit Scholar)

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