Daniel Victor Email & Phone Number

NYC

I'm an editor/reporter for our Live team, focused on major breaking news. I am based in NYC after living in London for 2.5 years and in Hong Kong for two years. I spent seven years as a reporter for our Express Team, which is focused on breaking news, explainers, quick-turnaround features and other stories that are written with our digital audience in.

New York, NY

I directed crowdsourcing and social media efforts. Favorite initiatives included Free The Files, a crowdsourcing project to gather political ad data at local TV stations, and the ProPublica Patient Harm Community, a Facebook group based on an in-progress investigation. Duties included running social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+).

Created the editorial concept, edited reporters and managed social media for a "hyperlocal" project with the Philadelphia Inquirer. Also trained Inquirer journalists in social media, managed some Philly.com partnerships and wrote some stories for the Inquirer. I know you're wondering, so I'll mention "community builder" was a title we invented because we.

Connected real people to the news process as part of the Community Engagement team. Job responsibilities included leading crowdsourcing projects, recruiting and maintaining a network of 200+ local blogs, traditional reporting, on-air appearances for TBD's TV channel, occasionally running TBD's social media accounts, producing the sports front, editing.

-- General assignment reporter. I covered local government, education, cops and courts, state politics, business, and all sorts of various features in every section. -- Lead writer on the Obama campaign in Pennsylvania.-- One of the original guinea pigs in Jay Rosen and David Cohn's beatblogging.org project. I experimented in using a small social network.

I was a stringer for 3+ years while attending Penn State, then became a part-time staff writer while taking classes during senior year.-- Regularly contributed news and features to Blue, a student-centered publication-- Wrote a sports-themed column for Blue-- Wrote a Penn State football-themed blog for centredaily.com, one of the first blogs on the site.

-- Worked on Public Life team for six weeks, covering city and county government-- Worked on Crime and Safety team for six weeks, on the day cops shift-- Was part of the team to cover the trial and aftermath of BTK, the city's infamous serial killer-- I also chased tornadoes. That was fun. Ask me about it.