Chris Cole Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

— Write, review and refine copy and promotional messaging to readers across digital platforms, including email newsletters, mobile and email news alerts, story headlines and summaries, and social-media posts.— Copy edit and fact-check content for accuracy, clarity and consistency, ensuring stories are free of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors in accordance with AP and brand styles.— Drive an average of 6,800 subscriptions annually by attracting unique and loyal readers to stories through SEO headline and content strategies, curation of seattletimes.com, ownership of news alerts and email newsletters, A/B testing and promotion across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.— Translate complex sports information and jargon to be easily understood by many audiences.— Write and manage updates for live blogs during University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks football games, NFL and NHL drafts, and other high-profile Seattle sports events.— Present weekly to department on SEO and website analytics to support informed decisions and growth.— Identify newsworthy and trending topics and pitch as story ideas to editors and writers.— Guided the vision and execution of numerous interactive projects, including an event/medal tracker for WA Olympians in Paris and an “intro to hockey” visual guide ahead of the Seattle Kraken’s inaugural season.— Won Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 Digital awards from 2021-23 while leading digital operations.— Increased subscriptions and page views of sports news alerts by 24% and 12% YoY, respectively, in 2023.

Phoenix, Az

— Led the proofreading and supervised the design of the newspaper’s sports section under tight deadlines.— Served as the main editor on all live Arizona Cardinals game-day coverage in 2019, managing multiple beat writers on breaking-news and deadline stories.— Drove subscriptions by writing SEO-friendly headlines, curating azcentral.com/sports, packaging stories for online production and posting on social media.— Developed, hosted and edited a video series conducting “man on the street” interviews with local fans and high school and professional athletes.— Worked as a member of the Diversity Committee to ensure stories reflected The Republic’s diverse audience and to identify areas where coverage was lacking.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

— Developed and instructed undergraduate courses on Multimedia Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.— Equipped more than 80 students with practical skills in video and audio editing, storytelling and digital-media production, as well as SEO, web analytics and personal branding.

Phoenix, Az

I provided guests at the Westin Phoenix Downtown with outstanding hospitality and customer service in multiple ways, including luggage assistance and in-room dining.

Phoenix, Ariz.

I developed and wrote stories pertaining to the Environment, Wildlife and Sustainability beat. I wrote spot and enterprise stories on deadline, providing photos with packages or working alongside Cronkite NewsWatch video reporters. Story topics ranged from environment, wildlife and sustainability to sports and courts. I had photo and story packages featured in The Arizona Republic, TucsonSentinel.com, Arizona Daily Star, Arizona Capitol Times and other CNS clients throughout Arizona.

Scottsdale, Ariz.

I was a Pulliam Fellow for 10 weeks, working on the community staff in The Republic's Scottsdale newsroom. I wrote community feature stories for azcentral.com and The Republic's Scottsdale edition. I served as backup to the City Hall beat reporter for the first half of the summer while City Hall was in session.

Phoenix, Ariz.

I wrote breaking news and feature stories for azcentral.com and The Republic’s Valley & State section in collaboration with KPNX 12 News editors and reporters. I found and investigated stories in the Phoenix area by contacting sources and PIOs. I gained experience writing police and crime stories while avoiding libel.

Phoenix, Ariz.

I wrote community feature stories for the Jewish News print and online editions.

Ahwatukee, Ariz.

I wrote high school sports game recaps and feature stories on deadline that were published in AFN’s print and online editions, as well as in The East Valley Tribune. I covered Mountain Pointe High School and Desert Vista High School sports, such as boys and girls basketball, girls soccer, tennis, baseball and softball.

Phoenix, Ariz.

I wrote articles based on interviews of major Arizona sports figures conducted by KTAR Sports 620's radio personalities. I uploaded photo galleries, videos and audio directly to the site. I also occasionally edited other writers' stories.