Jonathan Drew Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Leads team of multiformat journalists covering seven-state territory (NC, SC, VA, WV, KY, MD & TN).

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Managed journalists in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. Surged resources across state lines to efficiently cover breaking news in evolving landscape.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Used data-driven reporting to produce enterprise on hobbled multistate efforts to recoverendangered wolves and the urban-rural divide in progress on Confederate statue removals.
• Selected to edit, write or manage major stories outside my territory including COVID-19,social justice protests and a massive Florida building collapse.
• Managed North Carolina reporters and handled scheduling as deputy for four-state region.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Broke news on North Carolina stories in multiple formats, including theprosecution of a U.S. Army deserter, the “bathroom bill” and Hurricane Florence.

Atlanta

• Used strong interpersonal skills to help fellow desk editors, local managers and reporters across a 13-state region develop trend stories, features and investigative pieces about the South’s changing economics.
• Worked with state bureaus to develop raw ideas into coherent stories before improving aesthetics through my line-editing. My “bedside manner” with reporters earned me good working relationships with other AP.
• Planned and coordinated regular meetings and conference calls with reporters and editors around the region to make editing assignments and schedule upcoming publication dates.

Atlanta

• Edited and oversaw many of the 13-state region’s biggest breaking stories during evening hours as night supervisor, turning around detailed national copy on the tightest of deadlines.
• Helped the AP de-centralize its national editing operation as a founding member of its first domestic regional desk. This required building relationships with local managers and reporters as part of the changing media.

Greater New York City Area

• Led team of editors that contextualized stories on agriculture, public policy and other state issues for a business audience. This work required an understanding of how multiple themes intersect to accentuate their.

Greater New York City Area

• Reported, assigned and edited video, audio, text and interactive pieces on topics ranging from business to entertainment for multimedia features service of The Associated Press.
• Business trend stories such as “An Anthropologist in Your Shower” and a piece about call-center work being done in people’s homes won plaudits and helped AP develop new storytelling approaches during a crucial time for.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Built relationships with executives at large companies including Wendy’s, Limited Brands and Cardinal Health to develop national enterprise and breaking news stories. These skills earned me a rare in-person interview.
• Covered breaking news as a general assignment reporter and served as bureau supervisor on a rotating basis.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Served as night supervisor. Wrote spot news and features.

Covered police beat on weekends for newspaper in Durham, N.C. Wrote spot news and features.

Covered local news for daily wrap-around of The Herald-Sun of Durham, N.C.

Spearheaded intern newsletter; wrote and edited articles. Responded to constituent letters; helped with schedule production.

Did clerical work and research for Atlanta-based magazine correspondents.

Responded to constituent letters; answered phones.

B.A, English

Served as staff writer, assistant news editor for The Hustler, Vanderbilt's student newspaper.

Education record