Tamara Dunn Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Leading with the breaking news team with digital strategy and coverage.- Working as a part of the business and investigations teams.- Updating the front page of denverpost.com and its multiple social media outlets.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

- Research and connect with diverse news sources made available for Pennsylvania journalists and media.- My work in this role has been featured in Poynter and Editor & Publisher.

Wrote breaking news and feature articles on celebrities, politicians and public figures for a pop culture website.

Wilkes-Barre, PA

• Oversaw the nightly operations on the news desk by editing copy, assigning stories and covering local stories.
• Managed the newspaper’s social media accounts and websites for breaking news.
• Supervised reporters and paginators during night and weekend production shifts, including breaking news and feature stories.
• Created the movie review column That’s A Wrap for the Times Leader and Weekender, the region’s largest entertainment weekly publication, and headed viral campaigns on Facebook and Twitter.

Hazleton, PA

• Supervised editors, reporters and photographers on story ideas and adding layers to coverage.
• Designed Page A1 and other pages five days per week.
• Co-creator of the newspaper’s most active blog — Take 2 — an entertainment source on movie news and reviews.
• As a super user for the newsroom, assisted designers and reporters in a transition to a new computer/software system.
• Promoted breaking news and items of interest through the newspaper’s website and social media.
• Earned six state journalism awards and had several front-page designs featured in Newseum’s Top 10 Front Pages.

Wilkes-Barre, PA

• Designated as a backup news editor to lead the copy desk.
• Elected president of the Wilkes-Barre News Guild, 2013-14.
• Converted templates to fit a smaller web and created two lifestyle and entertainment columns.
• Earned four state journalism awards and was featured by Poynter, Newseum and CNN for front-page design.
• Employee of the Month, May 2013; Journalist of the Month, April 2008.

Petersburg, VA

• Designed front pages and section fronts up to five days per week.
• Collaborated with reporters and photographers on stories for the Lifestyles section.
• Chosen by the publisher as a Super User for the newsroom's Adobe InDesign/Hermes transition and trained editors, reporters and photographers on how to use the new system and software.