David Cody Email & Phone Number

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

• Supervise a team of copy editors and designers responsible for producing six daily print and digital sport sections in major U.S. markets with combined total circulation of approximately 600,000 (daily).
• Edit news stories, features, breaking news and/or other material for content that meets established style standards of the newsdesk as well as ensure content is engaging, timely, accurate and tailored for its intended.
• Collaborate with section editors and journalists to create publishing strategies, strong storylines to produce compelling materials that will have strong impact on readers.
• Coordinate with other section editors on a daily basis to avoid overlap in coverage and align how content will be developed.
• Exercise strong editorial judgment and submit content to final publication, ensuring it is appropriately fact-checked, risk-reviewed, copy-edited and on deadline.
• Manage staff of 15 copy editors, designers and agate clerks.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Ensured user-generated content was relevant and of high quality.
• Monitored message boards to make sure they were free of spammers.
• Maintained Facebook page.
• Answered customers’ concerns in a clear and timely fashion.

• Produced, edited and published digital sports content for daily online version of Sun Sentinel.
• Collaborated daily with writers, senior editors, photographers and other newsroom personnel.
• Created custom story packages, including copy, graphics, photos and videos that were compelling to site visitors.
• Verified accuracy of all content, including fact-checking and sourcing the stories.
• Monitored and analyzed site traffic and updated content to reflect most popular and / or top stories.
• Tracked competition in print, web and broadcast to ensure Sun Sentinel content was up to date and relevant.

• Supervised sports desk in role of slot editor and was in charge of executing nightly plan.
• Authorized final approval on pages sent to print.
• Edited staff written and wire services news, features and columns.
• Wrote clear, concise, accurate and creative headlines and cutlines for local, national and syndicated stories.
• Ensured there were no potential legal problems in copy.
• Demonstrated flexibility and quick decision-making under strict press deadlines.

• Designed section and inside pages, serving as lead designer for peak circulation day.
• Edited stories, features and columns for style, clarity, factual information and grammatical correctness from staff and freelance writers.
• Edited and paginated Sports section, including special sections.
• Proficient in CCI Layout-Champ interactive layout and design software.
• Worked with daily sports budget to select stories, photos and graphics and determined what was featured most prominently on pages.
• Coordinated two-county zoning of high school stories for Broward and Palm Beach.

• Support staff for busy Sports department to facilitate the work of editors, writers and newsroom staff.
• Field questions from readers regarding content in paper
• Assembled, compiled, zoned and verified data for assigned briefs and columns of agate.

Bachelor, Political Science & History

Associates, Business Administration

Education record