- Digital Editor at The Pueblo Chieftain, 2011-18
- Substitute City Editor, News Editor, Copy Editor, Page Designer
- While managing content, I guided digital development in the newsroom and other departments, coaching staff, implementing paid online subscriptions, building out mobile applications, managing email marketing campaigns and newsletters and managing branded social media channels.
- I oversaw content migration and design transition from Town News’ BLOX CMS to DTI/NewsCycle’s Lightning CMS, and back again.
- I also launched and managed various affiliated WordPress-based vertical websites.
- Editor at Pueblo Events, 2014-18
- I am an experienced aggregator and curator of content, editing and managing copy and multimedia from various sources according to industry standards while maintaining consistency in presentation and style.
- I helped manage a city desk of four local reporters who covered the East Valley region of Metropolitan Phoenix and its suburbs.
- Versed in the latest Associated Press style, I have more than 10 years of experience in a fast-paced copy desk and daily production environment, including advance features copy desk management.
- I oversaw content migration and design transition from a custom, in-house content management system to Town News’ BLOX CMS when the East Valley Tribune changed hands, including optimizing pages for high visibility on Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines.
Examples of articles I commissioned/assigned, then edited and published:
- Colorado team’s video game project a fantastical photo safari (PDF)
- 4/23/2018 — What a day! I had to pinch-hit as City Editor, just as teachers union strikes were heating up around the nation as well as at home in Pueblo, Colo. All while laying out Business and Opinion pages, and performing my normal Digital Editor duties. I was pretty proud of the comprehensive package we ended up with for Page One. (PDF)
