Russell Cardwell

***** ********* ***** * Lutz, Florida 33548 * 813-***-**** * ac8332@r.postjobfree.com

Award-winning writer and copy editor with over 25 years of experience in journalism seeks an opportunity

to apply editing, writing and project management skills to produce high quality content for a thriving employer. Creative, organized, detail-oriented and deadline-driven writer and editor with outstanding audience analysis and communications skills. Knowledge of style, experience in research and fact-checking, and comfortable managing production phases to ensure deadlines are met. Tampa Tribune’s 2009 Employee of the Year – Diversity.

Skills

Writing

Editing

Proofreading

Time Management

Relationship Building

Interviewing

Page Design

InDesign

Photoshop

Microsoft Office

Self-motivated

Team player

Work Experience

Senior Copy Editor

4/2002 – 5/2016 Tampa Tribune, Tampa, FL

Edit copy and write headlines for features and news sections: Friday Extra, 4You, Editorials, Baylife, Books, Pasco, Metro, Nation and World. Coordinate with designer and desk chief to complete sections and release them to print. Awarded numerous monthly headline awards. Identify and write newsworthy area feature stories. Awarded: Employee of the Year – Diversity, 2009

Copy Editor and Page Designer

8/2000 - 3/2002 Fort Myers News-Press, Fort Myers, FL

Design news, metro, business and sports fronts on the universal desk. Edit copy and write headlines

in business, news and sports. Review wire copy (such as Associated Press) to select engaging news content for readers.

Sports Copy Editor

6/1993 - 8/2000 Charleston Post and Courier, Charleston, SC

Design sports pages, edit copy and write headlines. Identify audience engaging story opportunities

and write sports features and book and music reviews. Awarded: General Excellence in Design, 1997

Assistant Sports Editor

7/1990 - 6/1993 Anderson Independent-Mail, Anderson, SC

Design and edit sports pages, including creating color graphics using Aldus Freehand for Macintosh. Cover the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Atlanta Falcons football team; attending games and press conferences and writing game stories, sidebars, columns, and advances. Awarded: Second Place in Sports Page Design, 1991 from the South Carolina Press Association

Copy Editor/Assistant News Editor

4/1988 - 7/1990 Anderson Independent-Mail, Anderson, SC

Design news pages, including creating color graphics. Also, edit news copy and write headlines.

As Assistant News Editor, oversee the copy desk, budget news pages and stories, assign workload

to copy editors, create the work schedule and assist with personnel training and performance reviews.

Awarded: General Excellence in Makeup, 1988 from the South Carolina Press Association

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