Jon Wile Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Set and manage content strategy for digital and print publishing across 44 local Business Journal newsrooms and 400+ journalists, with a strict focus on local B2B new coverage. - Upon promotion to position, created and implemented digital paywall strategy, resulting in unprecedented subscription growth at ACBJ. - Led multiple initiatives and lines of coverage during pandemic that led to new products and revenue streams, and increased paid and email subscriptions.- Started and lead Diversity, Equity and Inclusion internal group of 50 ACBJ journalists that has led to changes in source development, coverage, company style guide and recruitment.- Led reorganization and centralization of print design team in Fall 2020. - Use analytics and customer data to drive audience engagement and growth. - Identify best practices and scale new initiatives across 44 local Business Journal newsrooms. - Identify and secure third-party publishing tools to drive better storytelling and make newsrooms more efficient. - Reorganized and redesigned corporate editorial team of 20+ staffers to focus on content creation, facilitating cross-market collaboration, helping with data reporting/collection and recruiting reporters/editors. - Recruit and hire Editors-in-Chief for local Business Journal newsrooms.- Helped with creation and successful launch of Cleveland Business Journal during pandemic in May 2020. - Work collaboratively across divisions with Revenue, Audience, Product and Business Development peers to drive revenue and other KPIs.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Oversaw and set design strategy for editorial, product development and UX design groups across 40+ local Business Journals.- Reorganized UX design team and helped migrate from waterfall to agile workflow.- Oversaw and set data collection strategy for company's 40+ data researchers in local Business Journal newsrooms.- Responsible for hiring and recruiting of print and digital designers, as well as photographers.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Reinvented branding and redesigned all print and digital products for the 40+ individual Business Journals in first 18 months with company.- Guided and elevated the design of ACBJ products and worked with local newsrooms to support high standards of execution against those designs across all platforms.- Supported and trained local markets on storytelling, design standards, workflow processes/efficiencies, hiring and staff structure.- Hired and recruited all designers for local markets.

Washington, Dc, Us

- Designed Page 1 three to five nights per week and supervised design of news sections (National, Foreign, Business, Metro, Bulldog, Real Estate).- Designed Sunday/special projects, working in collaboration with reporters, editors, photographers and graphic artists.- Managed staff of 14 news designers, including scheduling, training, developing and writing performance reviews.

Washington, Dc, Us

- Designed Page 1 three to five nights per week, booked A section and designed Sunday projects.- Designed Obama Election night front, Inauguration special section (40 pages) and Inauguration photo book (168 pages, produced in only six days).

Washington, Dc, Us

- Hired as fifth designer in department; ascended to Lead Sports Designer and Sunday Sports Editor in Sept. 2006.- Designed special sections and section fronts; aided in the visual reorganization of standing and weekly features.

Taught news design to juniors and seniors for three semesters.

Brooklyn, Ohio, Us

- Designed all special sections and two section fronts per week.- Used planning shifts to redesign agate and weekly feature pages, along with advance projects and special sections.

Detroit, Mi, Us

- Designed section fronts for Page 1, Metro, Business and Community Free Press during four-month post-graduate internship.

Brooklyn, Ohio, Us

- Worked through college answering phones, coding agate, rewriting press releases and performing other clerical tasks.

Akron, Ohio, Us

- Answered phones, took box scores and laid out sports agate.