Jason Wilson Email & Phone Number

Gamesbeat

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• Weekly editing of over 30-40 articles from multiple writers; an average of 1,800 articles edited annually for 20 years. Editing on stories covering news, features, gaming, sports, and tech. Writing for three.
• Aligning internal and external stakeholders to single product vision to meet consumer and business expectations. Building consensus with leadership, editorial, and brand teams. Creation and refinement of GamesBeat’s.
• Techmeme ranked GamesBeat as a top publication for gaming business and tech coverage, often ranking our writers as among the most important voices in the industry𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
• Assisted in directing event content for multi-day GamesBeat conferences; identified themes, recruited guest speakers, and ensured content was covered for online distribution in written and video format; collaborated.
• Researched and wrote more than 200 articles, columns, interviews, and reviews annually.

• Editing and writing articles for both GamePro's magazine and website
• Planning and mapping out of monthly issues of GamePro magazine
• Coordinating with advertising and production departments on publication of monthly magazine
• Handling freelancer paperwork, invoices, and payments
• Assisting with planning coverage for magazine and website
• Assisting with planning and production of supplementary publications

• Managing staff of contributing writers and editing
• Designing and implementing daily publication schedule
• Planning and implementing writing prompts for community of writers and readers
• Editing community writing contributors and staff writers
• Writing news stories, reviews, features, and opinion pieces

• Managed a variety of deadlines for three magazines and one website as the copy chief, along with overseeing two copy editors and their daily work. This included managing deadlines for supplementary products as well
• Editing magazine and website articles
• Revamping and maintaining style guide, including enforcing differences between different publications
• Mentoring writers throughout the group

• Editing stories and designing pages for daily newspaper's sports section
• Assisting sports editor in planning daily section, and handling those duties when the sports editor was absent
• Covering community and high schools sports
• Mentoring intern and freelance writers
• Working with news desk to coordinate coverage as needed
• Working with graphics designers on graphics and special packages

Redding, Calif.

• Editing stories and designing pages for daily newspaper's sports section
• Assisting sports editor in planning daily section, and handling those duties when the sports editor was absent
• Writing stories about community and high schools sports
• Mentoring intern and freelance writers
• Working with news desk to coordinate coverage as needed
• Working with graphics designers on graphics and special packages

Novato, Calif.

• Oversaw all editorial for weekly newspaper, designing front pages, news and opinion pages, and covering various news beats
• Supervised staff of reporters, photographer, contributors, and columnists
• Established newspaper's first school board debate for community in partnership with the League of Women Voters

Novato, Calif

• Designed and wrote newspaper's sports section
• Designed and maintained newspaper's first website
• Established student-athlete award