Freelance Writer Copy Editor

David Dahl

**** ******* ***** **** • Hamburg, NY 14075

716-***-**** (mobile) • ********@*****.*** • www.linkedin.com/in/davndahl

Communications professional with more than 20 years of writing and editing experience focusing on details, meeting deadlines and communicating with sources, co-workers and the public. Able to focus under deadline pressure with minimal supervision. Maintain a high level of ethical standards.

Skills

• Writing • Photography

• Editing • PC and Macintosh proficiency

• Headline writing • Page design

Experience

Correspondent, East Aurora Advertiser, East Aurora, N.Y., 2023.

• Cover town governments and write feature stories.

Correspondent, The Sun, Hamburg, N.Y., 2017.

• Covered village and town governments and school districts as a freelance writer for a weekly 10,000-circulation newspaper in a suburb of Buffalo. Wrote business and feature stories.

Correspondent, The Buffalo News, Buffalo, N.Y., 2014-2016.

• Covered towns, villages and school districts as a freelance writer. Wrote weekly events preview. Wrote a breaking news story for the website about a major snowstorm.

Copy editor, Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, N.Y., 2012-2013.

• Edited local and wire news stories, wrote headlines, rewrote others' headlines, edited and rewrote cutlines, proofread pages and paginated for a seven-day, 22,000-circulation newspaper.

Correspondent, The Sun, Hamburg, N.Y., 2005-2011.

• Covered town, village and school district boards, took photographs and wrote business and feature stories. Filled in as a copy editor/proofreader.

Reporter/copy editor, The Post-Journal, Jamestown, N.Y., 1999-2005.

• Covered Chautauqua County government and politics, the top beat, and city of Jamestown government and politics, among other topics, for a seven-day, 23,000-circulation newspaper.

• Earned promotion from city government beat to county government beat.

• Edited news and feature stories, columns and editorials. Wrote headlines and cutlines and proofread and paginated pages, including the front page.

• Named "Best reporter in Chautauqua County" by The Chautauqua Region Word newsletter in January 2004.

Reporter, Messenger-Wolfe Publications, suburbs of Rochester, N.Y., 1998.

• Covered town and village governments, businesses and community events and took photographs for nine weekly newspapers.

Copy-editing intern, The Buffalo News, Buffalo, N.Y., 1997.

• Edited local and wire news stories and wrote headlines and cutlines in a full-time paid internship at a seven-day, multi-edition newspaper. Chosen from hundreds of applicants. Wrote a story during spare time.

Reporting intern, the Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, N.Y., 1996.

• Wrote news stories, business stories and profiles and localized wire stories for a seven-day, 26,000-circulation newspaper.

Education

B.A. in journalism/mass communication, St. Bonaventure University, 1998.

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