Larry D. Curtis Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

I built a team to manage digital content on video and print platforms including KSLTV.com, KSL+ app, while coaching news writing and social media messaging, strengthened the market-leading hold on Instagram, grew revenue and subscribers on YouTube from less than 100,000 to market-leading 370,000 at departure. Consistently increase website clicks month after month and year after year. Covered and coahced coverage of community news and big news that impacts the community including trials, lawmakers, crime, issues, traffic and weather.

Salt Lake City, Utah

I write, edit and select news and promote it via social media. I write breaking news and publish it across digital platforms while promoting news and features for television on KUTV.

Salt Lake City

As part of the core team, I helped build FantasyCon from scratch, creating a new and better convention experience that raised the bar for quality and interactivity at a live event.I solicited, scheduled, arranged and managed 200 hours of programming for a three-day event. I lead a team of employees and volunteers to make all logistical considerations for each of the individual hours of programming including tech needs. This including gathering experts from many fields to speak at FantasyCon, complimenting these experts when needed with additional panelists, created a balanced thematic program for the weekend and fitting moderators to the best panels to facilitate the best possible discussions.I also arranged with agents and celebrities to innovate new and better ways to interact with the audience. I removed physical and social barriers and create an interactive environment and celebrity experiences. Feedback was over 97% positive.I also led the team that created a FantasyCon parade from scratch, organized our press conference to announce our biggest celebrity while bringing in others via live feed to span three continents at one media even. I helped co-ordinate our PR, acted as a spokesperson for media and wore many other hats during the convention as needed while acting as part of the core team that build and executed a world-class convention.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Optimized, edited, and marketed content for click-ability, search and merchandising, resulting in record growth for region and industry. Built and supported niche high school coverage into dominating market position, beyond industry standard. As editor: • Grew yearly online sports clicks 260% - 17.9 million (2007) to 64.7 million (2010) • Doubled search finds from 4.8M (2007) to 9.9M (2010)• Spearheaded incorporation of social media into daily newspaper routine, boosting referrals, engagement and hits• Revolutionized website’s approach to national sports news with local aggregate approach resulting in new local clicks on national news with approach then used beyond sports on entire news website

Salt Lake City, Utah

Part of small team that edited online content and helped the newspaper transition into an internet-first publication. Coached staff into new thinking, edited content for online presentation with SEO and web-in-mind thinking.

Associate'S Degree, Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Activities and Societies: I produced, wrote, directed, edited and made movies.

As, Communication, Journalism, Photogrphy

Activities and Societies: Managing Editor of school newspaper, winning honors from Columbia, reaching heights never traveled.