Responsible for the daily oversight of external and internal communications for the Cleveland Foundation, including the planning and execution of comprehensive communications for all foundation constituencies.

Led newsroom content providers through the creative process of brainstorming, developing, reporting, writing and editing stories for print and online. Directed breaking news, enterprise and long-range story development for Metro, Business, Sports and Features departments.

Led the Metro news operation, the largest department in the newsroom, working closely with assistant and deputy metro editors and their reporters and columnists.

Cultivated and directed the work of 40 reporters and editors devoted to covering arts, entertainment and lifestyle news and features.

Improved content and presentation of the Sunday paper by working closely with all departments in the newsroom, from news, sports and features to the visuals staff.

Oversaw a team of visual journalists responsible for designing feature pages and illustrations and graphics for all departments in the newsroom.

Directed page designers in the production of news and feature pages.

Designed and paginated news and feature pages, working in Metro, National, Features, Sports and Op-Ed departments.

Polished local news stories, looking for errors in grammar, structure, logic, and AP and Plain Dealer style, dealing directly with reporters and their editors when questions arose.