Résumé for:

Michael Philips

Lake City, Florida 904-***-****

Education

• • Degree: Bachelor of the Arts, University of Central Florida, 1996

• • Major: English

Work experience

Oct. 2018-present, Assistant Editor, Lake City Reporter In my current position at the Lake City Reporter, which publishes five days a week, I am the number two editor for the newspaper of record for Columbia County, Florida. I am responsible for

• • editing copy from local reporters, writing feature stories on a weekly basis, building our comics and puzzle pages, maintaining our community calendar page, filling in for our editor when he is out, de facto sports editor, design pages for our weekly Lifestyle and Business sections, final read of every page

April 2012-Aug. 2018, Chief Subeditor, The Phnom Penh Post In my final position at the Phnom Penh Post, I was the head of the subediting desk for The Phnom Penh Post, a national newspaper based in Cambodia’s capital. I was responsible for

• • selecting the international news; assigning pages for the subeditors to build and edit; copy editing and writing headlines for the national stories; giving final clearance for all international, business, lifestyle and sports pages; giving the final read to national pages and Page One; managing an ever-changing staff of four; training newcomers March 2011-Oct. 2011, Senior Editor, the Cambodia Daily In my final position at the Cambodia Daily, I was a senior editor, part of a team that performed the first edits of all national stories. I was responsible for

• • helping to decide what stories would run and where; working with Cambodian and Western reporters to ensure the articles they work on made sense and were accurate and fair; rewriting copy to ensure they were clear and compelling; leading the afternoon news meeting when the editor was not in the office

Oct. 2010-March 2011, Assistant Editor, the Cambodia Daily At my second position at the Cambodia Daily, I was an assistant editor for our paper’s Weekend section. I was responsible for

• • designing pages, editing in-depth features from our reporters, writing headlines, giving all pages of the section a final read

April 2009-Oct. 2010, Night Editor, the Cambodia Daily In my first position at the Cambodia Daily, I was head of the copy desk. I was responsible for

• • selecting the international news, assigning pages for the copy editors to build and edit, rewriting copy filed by our Cambodian reporters, copy editing and writing headlines for the national stories, giving final clearance for all international pages, giving the final read to national pages

Feb. 2004-March 2009, Assistant Leisure & Arts Features Editor, the Wall Street Journal In my final position for the Wall Street Journal, I was responsible for

• • copy editing, page building, and writing blurbs, reference boxes and captions for the Leisure & Arts pages of the Journal; proofreading the Taste page; giving the movie-review, theater-review and TV-review columns the final read. I was a copy editor for the Journal’s film critic the year he won a Pulitzer Prize

• • shepherding our free-lance writers through the various editing stages

• • interacting with our art director to ensure proper and appropriate graphics

• • writing book reviews for the paper and political items for the daily e-newsletter the editorial department sent out

Aug. 1999-Feb. 2004, Pagination Editor, The Wall Street Journal/The Wall Street Journal Europe

I was recruited from our Orlando production facility to be a pagination editor for The Wall Street Journal Europe as it underwent a redesign. I would then transfer to do the same job in South Brunswick, New Jersey. I was responsible

• • page building and design, using Quark Xpress and then Hermes, for various pages of the Wall Street Journal and the Wall Street Journal Europe

• • page building, design, fact-checking, and headline and caption writing for the Central European Economic Review

• • proofreading and fact-checking for the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal and the Wall Street Journal Europe

Nov. 1994-Aug. 1999, New Assistant II, The Wall Street Journal At my first position for the Journal I was responsible for

• • proofreading and fact-checking various pages and articles for The Wall Street Journal, gaining much-needed knowledge of house style, news production, and financial and business terms

July 1998-Aug. 1999, Copy Editor, Reed Brennan Media Associates During the last year of employment with The Wall Street Journal in Orlando, I had a part-time second job. Working for Reed Brennan Media Associates, a unit of King Features, a Hearst Corp. company, I was responsible for

• • copy editing and proofreading advice, horoscope, bridge and how-to columns, and proofreading crossword and jumble puzzles

• • writing headlines for the above-mentioned columns, customized for the over 100 newspapers for which the company provided pagination services