Experience

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  AgFax Media, LLC

  • Brandon, Mississippi

  • AgFax Media Partner, Web Editor, Photographer

    • 2000 - Present
    • Brandon, Mississippi

    Hi!I’m a partner at AgFax Media LLC. We’ve been working in agriculture… Well, let’s just say we were there before it was the Cool Thing to do! We’re small but our footprint is mighty! Contact me directly at [email protected] 24/7 agricultural news website, AgFax.com, is a clearing house for the latest news in ag. We publish 9 seasonal weekly crop newsletters, plus the year round AgFax Updates Weekend edition. We have been covering agriculture since 1982. Our first crop newsletter is 25 years old this year! Our newsletters have a tradition of providing “boots on the ground” reporting with weekly conversations during the growing season. AgFax weekly crop newsletters offer ag companies exclusive sponsorships. That means you have the opportunity to get your message in front of the audience you want once a week for 20 weeks during the optimum growing season in corn, soybeans, cotton, rice, peanuts and California nuts during the growing season. We have an average email Open Rate of 35-40% across all of our newsletters. But, we don’t stop there, our newsletters with your ad message are socialized over multiple Facebook and Twitter platforms, plus over 160 RSS feeds in farm extension blogs and farm co-ops across farming country. AgFax Newsletters: AgFax Southern Grain, AgFax Midwest Grain, AgFax Southwest Cotton, AgFax Southeast Cotton, AgFax Midsouth Cotton, AgFax Rice Midsouth/Texas, AgFax Tree Crops (almonds, walnuts, pistachios) and AgFax Peanuts South/Texas, AgFax Weed Solutions – Midwest, AgFax Weed Solutions – South. Interested in newsletter sponsorships or advertising on agfax.com. Call me at 601-992-9488, 601-946-6003 or email [email protected].

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  Southern Images

  • Brandon, MS

  • Owner - Partner

    • 1982 - Present
    • Brandon, MS

    I have specialized in the photography of business agriculture and rural lifestyles for 30 years. I work on assignment and also have an extensive collection of stock photography.

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  WNPT

  • Nashville, TN

  • Public Relations Specialist for WDCN - Later WNPT, Editor of Program Guide

    • Jul 1977 - May 1983
    • Nashville, TN

    I was Public Relations Specialist in a 2-person department at public television station WDCN-TV before it transitioned to to the name WNPT-TV. My duties included writing press releases, editor of Preview, the program guide, writing copy for on-air promotion spots, writing ad copy for the annual live on-air fundraising auction, and photographer on special projects. This work included involvement in country music specials and other productions produced by WDCN.

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  Greamly Press

  • Nashville, Tennessee

  • Editor, Writer

    • May 1975 - Jul 1977
    • Nashville, Tennessee

    Greamly Press was a small magazine publishing house owned by Fred Gregg, a Nashville entrepreneur. During the citizen band (CB) radio craze he started a nationally distributed magazine called CB Times-Journal. I transitioned from writer to editor and was in charge of day to day operations: writing, photography and editing of articles written by freelancers. The publication was suspended when Greamly Press as closed.

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  Delta Democrat-Times

  • Greenville, MS

  • Writer/photographer as college student

    • Apr 1973 - May 1974
    • Greenville, MS

    First journalism job. Assignments from Editor to write feature stories and photograph subjects for small daily newspaper.