Lamar Graham Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

I work with Advance Local's Pulitzer Prize-winning newsrooms — from Portland, Ore. to Staten Island, N.Y., and all points in between — on strategic editorial innovation. I run an internal incubator/accelerator called Story Lab. Its goal is to provide Advance Local newsrooms with ideas, data, bandwidth and resources to experiment and innovate around journalism, products and content strategies that drive subscriptions.

Was one of two top newsroom executives at NJ.com after Advance Local made the shift to a fully digital-first content strategy, bringing all it former print newsrooms together. Oversaw features team, social media, newsletters, analytics and audience development.

Jersey City, Nj

Led the rapid development of an independent digital newsroom covering seven New Jersey counties mainly outside the traditional footprints of Advance Local's NJ newspapers, prior to the creation of NJ Advance Media.

Responsible for Editorial and Product Development teams for EverydayHealth.com (consumer health news and information), RevolutionHealth.com (alternative health), PDRhealth.com (online version of the Physician's Desk Reference), and CarePages.com (a community for people taking care of loved ones with serious medical conditions).

New York, United States

Responsible for articulating and executing an editorial vision, in print and in digital media, for America’s most widely read publication, which then reached 32.3 million households (and more than 75 million individuals) weekly in print, as well as 30 million unique monthly visitors through Parade.com and the fast-growing Parade Digital Partners network (composed of more than 100 leading U.S. newspapers). Personally led the 2010 editorial development of Dash and dashrecipes.com, a monthly newspaper-delivered cooking magazine and daily digital recipe service).

Led the Newspaper Relations Group, the sales team responsible for PARADE’s relationships with its distributing newspapers (and growing that portfolio from about 335 newspapers to nearly 400); oversaw the April 2007 reorganization and redesign of Parade.com; served as the chief liaison between the company and its legal counsel; played a leading role in all company strategic-planning activities; participated in newspaper and advertising sales calls; and represented PARADE at public and professional forums.

New York, New York, United States

Duties included conceiving, assigning, and editing feature stories; managing of the magazine’s editorial calendar; supervising the editorial staff; administering the editorial budget; negotiating all editorial contracts; and serving as Editorial Department liaison to other divisions of the company.

New York, New York, United States

Duties as Director of Digital Journalism included developing a digital-journalism curriculum; teaching two courses (undergraduate and graduate) per semester; coordinating the department’s multimedia resources and digital publication activities; and fostering a closer bond with the professional and corporate communities.

New York, New York, United States

Developed this CondéNet website about relationships from my own original proposal. Was directly responsible for concept, staffing, administration of editorial budget, and oversight of all content commissions and production schedules.

New York, New York, United States

Was directly involved in all aspects of RS Online from conception forward, including: designing, building, and launching the site; staffing; and assigning, editing, and producing content.

Specialized in men's health and the outdoors.

New York, New York, United States

Specialized in men's health and the outdoors.

Wrote cover stories and other features; specialized in crime and media.

Feature writer

Feature writer for The Daily Break section.

Columbia, Missouri, United States

General-assignment reporter: cops, courts, fires, city government and agriculture.

J.D. (Cum Laude)

Bachelor Of Journalism, Journalism

Education record