Experience

Golfweek

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Editor/USA Today Network Golf Coordinator

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Leads veteran team that covers all facets of golf — the PGA Tour, LPGA, college and amateur; along with equipment, travel, fitness and more. Helps coordinate with USA Today Network sites to ensure all regional and national events are covered, working with local and national editors (and writers) to build teams for various events and platforms. • Helped to lead massive pageview and engagement growth — some months as high as 500% YOY. Leads veteran team that covers all facets of golf — the PGA Tour, LPGA, college and amateur; along with equipment, travel, fitness and more. Helps coordinate with USA Today Network sites to ensure all regional and national events are covered, working with local and national editors (and writers) to build teams for various events and platforms. • Helped to lead massive pageview and engagement growth — some months as high as 500% YOY.



Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK

• United States
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project manager/Journalist/West Region editor

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2020

  • Worked with sports editors/reporters from around the country to coordinate major event coverage, including the Masters, the Final Four, the CFP Championship Game, etc. • Worked with editors through the company's Western properties to build enterprise news packages and better digital engagement through social media, planning, digital tools, and audio/video. • Helped plan and anchor digital audio for company-wide and newsroom-specific projects. Projects included Red River Rivalry Radio and Florida-Georgia Radio. Also helped to build and maintain a national stable of college sports podcasts that were major revenue producers. • Managed the Inner Circle program, a series of GateHouse Media initiatives that helps newsrooms develop social media skills, focus on in-depth news, hone important readership engagement practices, and expand their digital tools horizon. This includes a quarterly evaluation of over 400 publications and follow-up training with failing newsrooms. Created and helped implement Inner Circle Gold, a new wrinkle that created competition among the largest newsrooms for a cash reward. • Coordinated and managed the GateHouse Professional Development Series, maintaining a robust schedule of accredited speakers, preparing slide presentations, and relaying information on the sessions to all of GateHouse’s newsrooms. Previous topics have included analytics, SEO, engagement, in-depth news, ethics, video, fact-checking and digital audio. Sessions have averaged over 175 registrants over the last 12 months. • Managed the Best of GateHouse (now Gannett), which highlighted the best work done in newsrooms throughout the country. • Formerly coordinated Pinnacle, the company’s premium reporting project. Helped to devise yearly schedule, selected project coaches, requested story pitches from the field, then coordinated content from the field with CND designers and digital developers. Show less



Niagara Gazette

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Group Sports Editor

  • 2006 - 2012

  Helped develop story plans, handled hiring, and oversaw all local sports content for a four-newspaper group that included Niagara (Falls) Gazette, Lockport Union Sun & Journal, Tonawanda News and Medina Journal-Register. Won Associated Press awards for column writing, design and special sections. Covered the Buffalo Sabres and was a member of the Pro Hockey Writers Association. Also, handled web duties, including podcasts, audio slideshow content and web-produced TV shows. Helped develop story plans, handled hiring, and oversaw all local sports content for a four-newspaper group that included Niagara (Falls) Gazette, Lockport Union Sun & Journal, Tonawanda News and Medina Journal-Register. Won Associated Press awards for column writing, design and special sections. Covered the Buffalo Sabres and was a member of the Pro Hockey Writers Association. Also, handled web duties, including podcasts, audio slideshow content and web-produced TV shows.



WKBW-TV

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Weekend Sports Anchor

  • Sep 2007 - Nov 2009

  On-air personality, handling sports portion of local newscasts, including Friday and weekend shifts. Worked with photographers and producers to provide local content and handle interviews. Was the host of the weekly High School Sports Showcase, a 30-minute highlight show. Fill-in host of Sunday Sports Final show. On-air personality, handling sports portion of local newscasts, including Friday and weekend shifts. Worked with photographers and producers to provide local content and handle interviews. Was the host of the weekly High School Sports Showcase, a 30-minute highlight show. Fill-in host of Sunday Sports Final show.



Buffalo Current

• Buffalo, NY

• Editor-in-Chief

  • 2005 - 2006

  Alt-weekly started in the Buffalo, N.Y., area. Duties included hiring editorial staff, developing marketing plan, coordinating weekly planning meetings, writing editorials, layout, and pre-production. Alt-weekly started in the Buffalo, N.Y., area. Duties included hiring editorial staff, developing marketing plan, coordinating weekly planning meetings, writing editorials, layout, and pre-production.



Tonawanda News

• Newspaper Publishing

• Managing Editor

  • 2000 - 2005

  Handled staffing, wrote editorials, and developed story plans for 17,000-circulation daily newspaper. Developed Sunday projects, and handled most web duties, while coordinating all local coverage of Buffalo-area suburbs with a combined population of more than 150,000. Handled staffing, wrote editorials, and developed story plans for 17,000-circulation daily newspaper. Developed Sunday projects, and handled most web duties, while coordinating all local coverage of Buffalo-area suburbs with a combined population of more than 150,000.



Arizona Daily Sun

• Flagstaff, Arizona

• Reporter

  • 1999 - 2000

  Handled news and sports reporting for Northern Arizona's largest daily newspaper. Responsibilities included high school, college and professional sports, as well as entertainment and breaking news. Handled news and sports reporting for Northern Arizona's largest daily newspaper. Responsibilities included high school, college and professional sports, as well as entertainment and breaking news.



The Arizona Republic | azcentral.com | La Voz

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Reporter

  • 1996 - 1999

  Was originally high school sports reporter, then handled junior college and college sports, along with content for special Arizona State University page that ran in zoned sections for publication that ranks among the top 15 most circulated papers in the country. Was originally high school sports reporter, then handled junior college and college sports, along with content for special Arizona State University page that ran in zoned sections for publication that ranks among the top 15 most circulated papers in the country.