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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

My role is to edit stories that come from human and artificially intelligent sources, improving the headlines and the content so as to maintain or improve the SEO statistics that I had already improved by about 15% in my previous, interim position. This position calls for anticipating events and the most recent example I have is volunteering for duty as.

Atlanta

Our staff focuses on news of interest to the Black community, including stories on celebrities, health, entrepreneurship, education (HBCUs in particular) and politics. In a temporary role, I trained and managed a staff of writers and remote freelancers, improving the quality of our stories in terms of getting more clicks, and, on average, about 15% better.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Edited sermons, devotionals, video clips and podcast for a global faith and family media company that served millions online, with the goal of giving people simple moments with Jesus. In almost six years, we grew from one brand to five, and I went from being the lowest-level employee, a proofreader, to managing editor, overseeing everything posted online.

Alpharetta, GA

Wrote concise abstracts for clients including Fidelity, E*Trade, Scottrade, Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch. When they needed to know whether a potential or existing client had run afoul of the law – especially for crimes such as money laundering, racketeering, bribery or other types of corruption – I would cull articles from wire services, newspapers or.

Jonesboro, Georgia

Managed an award-winning staff of 11 writers covering crime stories, government stories, education stories, political election stories, opinion columns and sports. Edited print and digital copy according to Associated Press style, adhering to increasingly unforgiving deadlines. Enforced standards of fairness, taste, journalistic integrity. With a younger.

Jonesboro, Georgia

Generated story ideas, covering a county with five high schools. Wrote and edited copy from a staff writer and a rotation of freelance writers.

Decatur, Georgia

Responsible for writing for, updating and editing the GPC sports website, for all sports -- basketball, soccer, tennis and baseball. I also did play-by-play broadcasts on men's and women's basketball games that were streamed online. We wrote features, put together media guides to help coaches recruit quality student-athletes to GPC. We also contributed.

Douglasville, Georgia

Generated story ideas, covering a county with five high schools. Wrote and edited copy from a staff writer and a rotation of freelance writers. Also took photos, designed the pages using InDesign and populated the paper’s Internet site. Even with such a small staff, sports section won third place in the state overall in Division D, or among newspapers with.

Atlanta, Georgia

My responsibilities from my previous position have been modified. I still handle night high schools responsibilities, but have now taken on sole mainsheet responsibility for high school coverage and assisting on line editing for other sections of the paper

Atlanta, Georgia

The night high schools editor position was designated in June 2007, as a part of the newspaper's dramatic reorganization, though I've been involved in overseeing our high school sports coverage continuously since 1998. The position is being tweaked even further, and will broaden into a position that covers different sections of the newspaper.

Atlanta, Georgia

Helped coordinate the newspaper's high school sports coverage with an emphasis on unique Internet offerings that weren't available in the newsprint edition. However, there also was much to do in the traditional newsprint side -- coordinating coverage, overseeing and editing a staff of reporters working out of bureaus all over the Metro Atlanta area.

Atlanta, Georgia

Laid out, designed and then worked with printers union to produce sports pages. In the four years I did this, we went from drawing pages by hand with pica poles and photo sizing wheels to paginating, and thereby bypassing the printers union.

Atlanta, Georgia

After a year in which I did general assignment writing (including three months outside sports, writing stories all over the southeastern U.S.) I moved to the copy desk. Because I had a reputation for clean, concise copy and the desk needed help, I edited sports copy for style, accuracy, grammar and space. I attached captions for photographs, headlines for.

Atlanta, Georgia

Covered Georgia Tech athletics through most memorable period -- first, when the men's basketball team reached the NCAA Final Four in the 1989-90 season, led by its "Lethal Weapon 3" trio -- Dennis Scott, Kenny Anderson and Brian Oliver. Then covered the football team to its 1990 UPI coaches poll national championship, capped by a 45-21 rout of Nebraska in.

Atlanta, Georgia

After a first year at the paper in which I did various general assignment stories, I was suddenly thrust into the role of major league baseball beat writer because the man who held the position before me was unceremoniously fired. I had nothing to do with his firing -- he was the president of the Baseball Writers Association of America at the time, and.

Bachelor’S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism