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Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

This division of the Alliance oversees the recruitment of new members, nurtures positive relationships with existing members and directs all networking and social events. Retention is focused around developing programming that is both interesting and informative. Much attention is given to the latest trends in current affairs and the economy. Staff director of both the Governor and Leadership Councils within the Alliance. Serve as Director for the Port Everglades Action Team, a collaboration between the Alliance, Port Everglades, the Broward Workshop, Port Everglades Association and dozens of other business supporting the Port. Director for all major events of the year (Annual dinner, attendance approx. 750; Mid-Year luncheon, attendance approx. 500), four social cocktail events, media breakfast, post-Boat Show wrap-up breakfast and other events as needed. Sponsor packages and specific marketing materials are coordinated from this department. Write, edit and produce an award-winning, annual membership directory (approx 160 pages) that is distributed to members and key elected officials/decision-makers. Have grown overall membership by over 76% and have met and exceeded every revenue goal set for the division. The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance is focused on recruiting corporate headquarters and/or large regional offices to Broward County and to promote the area as a great place to located businesses.

The Tribune Company is a Fortune 500 media company, operating business in broadcast, print, and electronic publishing, with operating revenues of over $5B. The Sun Sentinel, along with its combined products -WSFL, Sunsentinel.com, City Link, South Florida Parenting, City & Shore - reaches more than a million readers per week and over 43 million page views per month.Editor, News Research, Training and Readership (2005-2009)Directly managed staff of 13 in news research department whose main function was to investigate background information for news stories and archive all published materials for Company. Operating budget $170,000. Oversaw training for 350 staff. Reader Editor of newspaper handling all reader issues.Resolved issues for breaking news coverage, community bridge-building as well as guiding Department through bankruptcy proceedings which resulted in division consolidations. Received 120 newspaper credit lines.Saved over $500K by launching company digitizing program which scanned and archived over 1M photos. Led $70K computer project which required selecting vendors, writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and guiding implementation training team.Selected to spearhead several Sun Sentinel and Tribune Company surveys, resulting in published book "News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change." Won Sun-Sentinel Values Team Award two years in a row for corporate-wide surveys for Tribune Company.Created innovative national training program for front line managers geared towards maximizing staff satisfaction and minimizing staff turnover. Lectured internationally. Directed National Writers' Workshop annually which showed profit up to $10K annually. Developed and coordinated investigative training program for minority journalists with several national non-profits. Involved researching, grant writing and selecting participants.

Deerfield Beach, Fl, Us

Started at the bottom and worked my way up through the ranks.Researcher, assistant editorial research manager, assistant city editor, reader editor, training editor, editor for news research, training and readership.Along the way I was chair of the Sun Sentinel Company's United Way campaign, team leader for the project to start a parenting magazine, publisher of the multicultural directory, and, for the past eight years, was chair of the National Writers' Workshop.

Deerfield Beach, Fl, Us

Represented newsroom in strategic planning processes. Guided customer-driven programs. Organized and moderated forums internally and externally, developed and booked town hall meetings, evaluated focus group discussions and administered all reader focused initiatives. Training editor role included identifying, developing and coordinating newsroom training; including internal and external workshops, annual conferences and tuition reimbursement. Chair of National Writers' Workshop for 8 yrs. Developed division-wide multi-lingual training (English, Spanish and Creole). Designed 154 classes representing over 8,000 class hours for 770 attendees, focused on management, technical and craft training. Initiated benchmark reports. Created company's Reader Awareness program designed to gauge community interest and identify new features and products. Gained national and international attention resulting in higher visibility for company and division. Hosted over 20 Town Hall meetings featuring the Governor, legislators, cabinet members and source experts; Published first Sun Sentinel Multicultural Directory. Appointed project leader for Parenting project, resulting in decision to buy and rebrand South Florida Parenting magazine.Appointed project manager for Total Community Coverage, a company-wide diversity initiative. Organized South Florida Media Coalition. Identified and successfully steered several diverse and competitive news media and non-profits in coordinated effort to highlight effects of AIDS in South Florida during designated week. Won Sun-Sentinel Values Team Award.Key member of team to begin Sun Sentinel's first involvement in electronic media. Formulated and developed early online efforts including electronic and audio. Coordinated internal contest and recognition programs with budget of over $50K annually.Selected Chair of annual National Writers' Workshop