Design Designer

Copy editor, graphic designer, coffee drinker

Experience:Shaw Media’s Crystal Lake, Ill., copy desk, a group responsible for copy editing and production of three dailies and multiple special section projects.

August 2011 present: Copy editor and page designer

Design A1s for the (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald, the (DeKalb County, Ill.) Daily Chronicle or the Kane County (Ill.) Chronicle as needed.

Read local and wire copy for multiple newspapers.

Proof pages for news, sports, opinion and features sections.

Design local and wire news pages, tailoring wire story selection and play to reflect market interests and coverage goals for each paper.

Create graphic illustrations and infographics.

Post stories and images to the papers’ websites, writing web-friendly display type and choosing photos that will play well at web size.Media General’s Lynchburg Consolidated Editing Center, a group responsible for copy editing and production of seven dailies and multiple weeklies and special section projects.

December 2010 July 2011: Team leader, Northern Virginia/Culpeper copy editing team

Managed a team of 5 copy editors primarily working on the (Manassas, Va.) News & Messenger and the Culpeper (Va.) Star-Exponent.

Designed A1s for the News & Messenger.

Created infographics.

Worked with home editors on production goals and newspaper appearance for the News & Messenger and Star-Exponent.

June 2009 November 2010: Copy editorThe Daily Herald, a Chicago-area newspaper that covers several northern Illinois counties, metropolitan Chicago, and state and national news.

May 2008 August 2008, December 2008: Copy desk internThe Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University s daily school paper.August 2008 May 2009: Multimedia reporter

Collected and edited audio and video for multimedia packages.

Copy edited for Web and posted articles to the DEN s website.

January 2008 May 2008: Lead page designer and copy editor

August 2007 December 2007: Managing editorEducation:Eastern Illinois University

Bachelor s degree: journalism major and anthropology minor.Skills:

AP style

InDesign

Quark XPress

InCopy

Photoshop

Illustrator

Workflow software including APT Falcon, SaxoPress, Roxen

Web-posting content management systems

HTML and CSS (very basic skills only but I’m working on improving them!)Contact:

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