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San Diego, California

I cover Escondido, Carlsbad and San Marcos for UT-San Diego, a newspaper, website and TV station all rolled into one.

Cover one of the paper’s premier beats, 144,000-residentEscondido, a city struggling with turmoil created by illegalimmigration and a scarcity of quality jobs. Write two or three in-depth enterprise stories each week, inaddition to several dailies. Also cover several regional beats for the paper, including publicpensions, low-income housing and the demise of redevelopmentagencies. Covered higher education

Wrote enterprise stories, covered school board meetings, wasdirect supervisor and writing coach for six reporters and edited 40stories per week. Chief editor of Rancho, a monthly magazine of local news stories,features, humor columns and more.

Covered Poway City Council and the Poway Unified School District,the newspaper group’s two most important beats. Wrote a wide variety of features, news stories and theater reviewsfor three weeklies and a monthly magazine.

Covered New York City Council meetings, public pensions andlabor union collective bargaining for this weekly paper focused ongovernment workers in New York City.

 Wrote news stories and neighborhood features for this dailynewspaper during a graduate school internship at New YorkUniversity.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy

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