Manager Design
Resume:
Kenneth Broder
experience
EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR at the Los Angeles Times, supervised suburban
design and copy desk editors, while overseeing photo and art departments
WEB EDITOR and freelance-staff manager for AllGov.com
COPY DESK SUPERVISOR at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
PAGE DESIGNER for & print
URBAN REPORTER & SPORTS COLUMNIST
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
NEWSROOM TECH SUPPORT
ALLGOV.COMJanuary 2011-Present
MANAGING EDITOR. Manage team of freelance writers for AllGov's new California section. Research,
write and edit articles in anticipation of a 2012 section debut. Write, edit and upload material for the
website's homepage.LOS ANGELES TIMES August 2008-June 2009
DESIGN EDITOR. Responsible for design of daily news pages. Duties regularly included booking of the
A-section in coordination with the editorial production editor, the foreign, national, metro and
business desks and photo and graphics departments. Also posted to the Times website using Assembler. July 2002-August 2008
NIGHT EDITOR for the California section design desk. Helped facilitate coordination with the zone
editions as well as photo, graphics, copy desk and city desk. Regularly designed section pages.
Occasionally filled in as evening exec on the A1 desk.April 2001-July 2002
EDITORIAL CCI TEAM teacher and troubleshooter during rollout of CCI Europe computer system.June 1998-April 2001
EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR for the Valley and Ventura County editions. Managed 22 news and
copy editors, and oversaw the photo staff and art department. Chaired morning and evening news
meetings, reviewed all page design and handled production needs. Regularly worked downtown
as night executive news editor and served as liaison between Valley/Ventura and downtown on
issues and projects, including pagination and redesign.June 1991-June 1998
NEWS EDITOR for startup of the Ventura County edition. Helped establish standards and
procedures for the edition and guided it through its eventual split into East and West
editions. Designed daily cover and inside news pages. In 1995, became news editor for the
Valley edition.October 1989-June 1991
LOS ANGELES HERALD-EXAMINERJuly 1984-October 1989
COPY EDITOR, SLOT and NEWS EDITOR. Primarily oversaw copy desk for afternoon edition and
regularly supervised desk of up to seven editors for morning edition.April 1988-October 1988
SPORTS COLUMNIST. Wrote a weekly column about the "new" statistics-driven
approach to baseball analysis.PASADENA STAR-NEWSAugust 1980-July 1984
REPORTER and COPY EDITOR. Also stints as Page 1 news editor, wire editor and slot.
Duties included page makeup on the nation's first full-pagination system (Information International
Inc. -- III).COAST MEDIA NEWSJuly 1979-August 1980
STAFF WRITER for weeklies covering southwest Los Angeles County.VICTOR VALLEY DAILY PRESSJanuary 1978-June 1979
STAFF WRITER for Freedom Newspaper daily in Victorville, California.
contact info
1635 Wagner St.
Pasadena, Calif. 91106
*********@*****.***
the editor's disclaimer
technical skills
CCI superuser
programmer using Visual Basic, Php, Perl, Javascript, Xhtml and Css
experience with Dreamweaver, WordPress, Apache server, MySql, Excel and Access
creator of an interactive built around a computer-driven fantasy baseball league
education
Michigan State University, 1972. BA political science
Indiana University, 1975-77. Postgraduate work in journalism
USC and UCLA. 1983-85. Computer programming classes
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