Leon G. Russ

*** ********* *****, ***********, ** 29307-3737 Phone 864-***-****

Objective

To obtain a position that will utilize my journalistic/public relations skills.

Personal Qualifications

Five years of Office Management experience.

Thirty-five years of editorial, journalistic and layout/design experience.

Nineteen years of reportorial experience.

Three years experience as Assistant Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Navy.

Professional Experience

Reporter (Stringer)

Herald-Journal (2013 & 2015-2019)

Spartanburg, SC 29306

Report on various high school and college sporting events.

Publisher, Reporter, Editor, and Photographer

The Spartanburg Sports Report (August 2013 to August 2015)

Spartanburg, SC 29307

Reported on and photographed various high school and college sporting events.

Laid out and designed pages.

Reporter, Photographer and Layout/Design

Hometown News (April 2006 through December 2012)

Woodruff, SC 29388

Reported on and photographed sporting events for all nine Hometown News

publications.

Wrote feature stories for all nine Hometown News publications.

Reported on and photographed breaking news.

Acted as the political reporter for all nine Hometown News publications.

Covered Spartanburg City and County Council meetings, and Pacolet Town Council

meetings.

Laid out and designed Hometown News’ The Spartanburg County News and The

Chesnee Tribune.

Publications Specialist

National Rehabilitation Association (1996 to present, part-time position since 2004)

1520 Belle View Blvd #5142, Alexandria, VA 22307.

Layout and design association’s quarterly The Journal of Rehabilitation.

Laid out and designed association’s bi-monthly newsletter, Contemporary Rehab.

Wrote articles and took photos for Contemporary Rehab.

Laid out and designed all other association publications.

Editor

Military Living Publications (1994 to 1996)

Falls Church, VA 22042-0347

Responsible for layout design and text for 20 publications

Final approval of blue lines.

Journalist

Suburban Gazette (1993 to 1994)

McKees Rocks, PA 15316

Reported on council meetings and wrote feature articles.

Assisted in layout of the paper.

Editor/Journalist/Assistant Public Affairs Officer

Fleet Activities, Sasebo, Japan (1988-1992)

Wrote, edited, laid out, and designed base newspaper, Sasebo Soundings.

Handled all major stories for Sasebo Soundings.

Primary point of contact for all media representatives.

Wrote and disseminated all news releases.

Wrote and presented Command Brief to all visiting dignitaries.

Wrote annual Command History of the base for the Navy Archives.

Awards

First Place, Feature Headline Writing, 2011 South Carolina Press Association

First Place, Spot News Reporting, 2010 South Carolina Press Association

First Place, Enterprise Reporting, 2009 South Carolina Press Association

First Place, Sports Enterprise Reporting, 2006 South Carolina Press Association

First Place, Profile Feature Writing, 2006 South Carolina Press Association

Third Place, Sports Feature Story, 2006 South Carolina Press Association

Honorable Mention, 1990 Navy Chief Of Information Merit Awards

Education and Training

InDesign Training Class - South Carolina Press Association (2010)

QuarkXPress 3.31 Class - University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus (August 1995)

Graduate, Defense Information School Print Journalism & TV Education courses (October 1988) – Fort Benjamin Harrison

Degrees Earned

B.A. Thiel College (May 1984), Greenville, PA 16125

Major: Political Science

Major: History

Technical Skills

Able to provide video, Tweet updates from events and breaking news via Iphone. Working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Quark XPress, Microsoft Word and Word Perfect.

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