Jay Harn, M.A. Email & Phone Number

Prescott, Az, Us

Escondido, California/Leesburg, Florida

Solid communication skills are important in real estate, and my long-time experience as a writer, editor, college instructor and business owner, makes me feel especially qualified as I work to help client's get the best results in their real estate transactions. I myself, having personally bought and sold many properties over the years, have direct experience in understanding just how important this is to both buyers and sellers.

Escondido, California; Leesburg, Florida

Assisted in restarting the Alpine Chamber of Commerce after it shut down due to COVID-19. Involved in communications and marketing of special “Back in Business” events. Assisted in rebuilding and recruiting new Board of Directors. Rewrote and updated various financial forms and directives for Escondido-based non-profit organization.

San Diego, California

Managed and supervised professional reporting team and freelancers. Responsible for all editorial content of this 40-year-old award-winning regional business journal -- weekly glossy print publication, daily website, social media, and all ancillary editorial products. Assigned stories, visuals, edited, proofread, and wrote a weekly "insider" column.

San Diego, Ca

Instructor for JMS 310W media reporting and writing lab. Teach journalistic writing and editing for various media platforms. All SDSU journalism majors are required to take this foundational class.

San Diego, Ca

Advise, coach and mentor students on change management, leadership, operations, new business development, advertising, distribution and editorial content at this 104-year-old award-winning student-run independent college newspaper and digital media company. Work with university administrators, faculty and Associated Students to promote educational aspects of newspaper and solidify future of the media organization in a changing communications environment. The Daily Aztec publishes daily online and weekly in print while classes are in session. We distribute news and advertising via print, thedailyaztec.com, video, twitter, instagram and facebook. Responsible for P&L management.

Riverside, Ca / Yorba Linda, Ca

Associate for West Coast and Mountain State region. Media mergers and acquisitions. Helped people buy and sell newspapers and other publications. Provided media appraisals, evaluations and consulting services

Valencia, Ca / Riverside, Ca

A quality solution-driven media company that offered our customers affordable print, web, marketing, networking, and video solutions to meet their immediate and long term needs in a very challenging economy. In addition, offered consulting services to other publications helping them to adapt to the changing economic environment.SCV SolutionsMedia published the SCV Independent and other local niche publications and web sites..

Santa Clarita, Ca

Senior executive managing all operations of this community newspaper published 7 days per week with a paid circulation of 13,000. Responsible for P&L management, overall content, sales, new products and new business development.• Led the redesign of a severely outdated website and added several new features, resulting in a 900 percent increase in online/digital revenue.• Led the redesign of the newspaper and sections, added special advertising sections, realigned the advertising department and guided the restructuring of the editorial department resulting in improved paid circulation and cost savings.• Led the reorganization of marketing initiatives and the sales team and combined two separate departments resulting in increased revenue, reduced costs and a return to profitability for the magazine division.

Red Bluff, Ca

Senior executive managing all aspects of entire newspaper operation with 6 day per week 7,500 paid circulation publication, responsible for all aspects of P&L management, overall content, products and sales.• Led the restructuring of the core publication, developed and implemented new marketing initiatives, added several new and innovative niche products resulting an 18 percent increase in revenue yielding 25 percent operating profit.• Led the revision and re-design of website and added several new features resulting in doubled revenue in each year of a two year period.

Alpine, Ca

Owned and managed all operational, editorial, circulation, sales and business aspects of a group of award-winning weekly newspapers in East San Diego County, growing it from one weekly, to a group of eight weeklies with a combined circulation of 40,000.• Purchased a single newspaper -- The Alpine Sun -- which became the foundation for the building of an eventual group of eight community newspapers resulting in revenue growth from $100K to more than $1.5 million.• Identified, hired and provided leadership to writing team which wrote stories, commentaries and editorials resulting in awarding of multiple first place statewide journalism honors and increase in publications’ prestige and readership.

El Cajon, Ca

Taught the introduction to journalism class each year as a working professional adjunct instructor.

Glendale, Ca

Coordinated marketing communications efforts for both internal (4,000 employees) and external (500,000 members) audiences throughout California. • Wrote, edited and assisted in designing 11 different newsletters (52 issues per year) targeted to employees, health plan members, insurance brokers, employers and physicians. Instigated journalistic criteria in a corporate environment, which increased effectiveness and quality of the publications.• Served as a consultant to top executives on issues regarding media coverage.

Santa Clarita, Ca

Involved in all editorial areas of producing this daily newspaper in Northern Los Angeles County.• Chosen to be part of management team in charge of converting newspaper from thrice-weekly to a daily publication schedule. • Organized, edited and designed daily pages for all community news and wire coverage. Represented newspaper to community groups.

Tujunga, Ca

M.A., Leadership And Organizational Studies, 3.95, With Honors

Interests in change management.

B.A., Journalism

Activities and Societies: Daily Sundial

A.A., Humanities

Activities and Societies: El Vaquero student newspaper, student government