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.
- T-shaped web designer with skills in coding and project management, HTML, CSS, content development and editing – and a passion for clear communication.
- Father, husband, gamer, blogger, educator, manager
Where you can find Jayson Peters …
IEM
- Public outreach designer-developer, August 2020-
- Public outreach specialist, February 2019-July 2020
- Content creator, Pueblo Chemical Stockpile Outreach Office
- News writer/social media
- Content creator, Pueblo Chemical Stockpile Outreach Office
- Creator and blogger, 2007-
- Owner, publisher, editor in chief, 2016-
- Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 accredited media
Pueblo Community College
- Adjunct faculty: web design instructor, 2013-
- October 2015 part-time faculty of the month
- Curriculum development: content management systems, 2017
Southern Colorado Press Club
- Board member, 2015-17
- Vice president, 2019-21
- Past-president/board member, 2018-19
- President, 2016-18, 2024 (interim)
- Webmaster, 2015-2022
Recent creations by Jayson Peters …
- A new Nerdvana
- Google, search and artificial intelligence
- Thoughts on Threads …
- Who’s plundering print?
- An upgrade for ACWA
- A new chapter for Books Again!
- Welcome home, Samurai Comics
- LepreCon 48 convention website goes live
- Review – ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Brings Starfleet Life Crashing Down To Earth
- Public Comments Open on Pueblo Plant Permit
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
- 2015 Colorado Press Association awards
- 2014 CPA awards
- 2013 Better Newspaper Contest, Website-Daily-Interactivity
- 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-
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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
- Latin
Phoenix Central High School
- International Baccalaureate Program studies
- Spanish
- Academic Olympics alternate
- Concert/Marching Band (woodwinds)
- Literary magazine “Anthenzum”
