Jayson Peters is a digital, social and print media professional, and founder of the blog Nerdvana.

Who is Jayson Peters?

• Creator and curator of the award-winning
• “Journotech” guy specializing in WordPress and other CMS administration and customization
• Journalist and instructor with extensive experience in production management, content creation and editing and design for digital, print and social media.
• Father, husband, gamer, blogger, educator, manager

Where you can find Jayson Peters …

Recent creations by Jayson Peters …

• LepreCon 48 convention website goes live
• Review – ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Brings Starfleet Life Crashing Down To Earth
• PCAPP Monthly Recaps
• Public Comments Open on Pueblo Plant Permit
• Pueblo Plant Achieves Monthly Processing Record
• Baseline Reconfiguration of 4.2-Inch Mortar Rounds Complete
• Pueblo Static Detonation Chamber Units Covered, Energized
• Pueblo Plant Resumes Chemical Weapons Destruction
• VIDEO: Pueblo Plant Modifications Improve Safety and Efficiency
• VIDEO: Pueblo Plant Marks 50% Agent Destruction Milestone

Where Jayson Peters has been before …

Colorado Publishing House:

• Production manager, August 2018-February 2019
  • Colorado Springs Business Journal
  • Colorado Springs Independent
  • Colorado Springs Military Newspaper Group
    • Peterson Space Observer
    • Schriever Sentinel
    • Fort Carson Mountaineer
  • Pikes Peak Bulletin
  • Southeast Express newspaper launch Duties:
    • Print section layout
    • Digital ad design/management
    • Website and digital subscription management
    • Communicating with printers on quoting, scheduling and quality control

The Pueblo Chieftain

• Digital editor/media director, 2011-18
  • 2018 SPJ Colorado Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism Award, First Place, General Website Excellence, Chieftain.com
  • 2017 Better Newspaper Contest recipient, Best Website-Daily
  • 2017 second-place videos in multimedia and breaking news video categories
  • 2015 Southern Colorado Press Club Media Excellence award for electronic media
  • 2015 Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant recipient
• Editor of Pueblo Events, 2014-18
  • Curation, reverse publishing, pagination, supervising FTE and interns
• Webmaster, Best of Pueblo, Pueblo Pets, 2012-18, Pueblo Events, 2014-18
• Custom-designed, SSL-secured form submissions sub-site with media kit documents behind email capture (more info)
• Custom discount card order form

GeekDad

• Occasional contributor for the popular GeekDad website, 2010-11, 2017-

• Review – ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Brings Starfleet Life Crashing Down to Earth
• Order 66 Comes to ‘The Clone Wars’ as Series Goes Out Fighting
• Review – “The Bad Batch” Brings Attitude to ‘The Clone Wars’
• Space Cat Felicette Statue Unveiled at French University
• Memorial to France’s Forgotten Space Cat Finds Home, New Design
• Lost ‘Doctor Who’ Story ‘Shada’ Restored With Animation, BBC Magic
• Felicette the Space Cat Getting Long-Overdue Monument

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

• Adjunct faculty instructor of online media at Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus, 2010-11

East Valley Tribune

• Web editor, assistant news editor, copy editor, page designer, editorial assistant and proud obituary clerk at the Pulitzer Prize-winning suburban Phoenix, Ariz., newspaper, 1998-2011

Presentations

• Society of Professional Journalists Region 9 conference 2018, Denver: Incorporating HTML into reporting
• Southern Colorado Press Club, various dates: paid content, online calendars

Other past roles:

• Freelance features writer for State Press Magazine
• Crime and higher education reporter at ASU State Press
• Data conversion for United States Postal Service

Jayson Peters’ Education

Arizona State University

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

• Bachelor of Arts degree, Journalism

Maricopa County Community College District (Arizona)

Phoenix College

• Associate of Arts degree, Classical Studies

Phoenix Central High School

• International Baccalaureate Program studies
• Spanish
• Academic Olympics alternate
• Concert/Marching Band (woodwinds)
• Literary magazine “Anthenzum”