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Greensboro, North Carolina

Assign, edit, and write feature stories for magazine that's served North Carolina since 1933.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Returned to a much smaller CL for a third stint in late 2016. Immediately instituted a local-only coverage policy. After noticing a trend toward coverage of national figures under previous editorship, I talked with local media consumers about what they expect from alt-media outlets in the 2010s. The almost universal response: more depth in coverage of.

San Francisco Bay Area

Oversaw print and digital editorial at 65,000-circulation alternative media company; managed staff of nine. Rebuilt editorial department from ground up after paper lost majority of its staff in a company shake-up. Focused on improved storytelling, reporting, presentation of print product.Highlights: Return rates decreased from about 6 percent to less than.

San Francisco Bay Area

Oversaw coverage for magazine and website serving acoustic guitar players: supervised team of editors and a designer; planned, assigned, and wrote news, features, and reviews related to new guitars, music-related technology, accessories, and recent recordings; worked with guitar professionals on print and video lessons; conducted on-camera interviews with.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Returned as EIC for a second stint. Managed editorial staff of seven: managing editor, creative director, web strategist, news editor, arts editor, music editor, listings editor.Major Accomplishments: Spearheaded partnership with Huffington Post for joint coverage of 2012 Democratic National Convention, held in Charlotte; brought staff up to speed by.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Part of freelance editorial team charged with revamping Rolling Stone’s website: wrote, rewrote and updated content for digital editorial archives. Contributed to several RS special issues including 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, as well as to other media outlets including Spin, Paste, eMusic.com, Creative Loafing, Charlotte Observer, Business North.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Oversaw editorial at 50,000-circulation Southern alternative weekly. Managed staff of eight: four news reporters, arts editor, music editor, listings editor, operations editor.Major Accomplishments: Instituted immediate changes to bring more diversity to editorial staff and coverage: hired black female music editor, regular Latino and African-American news.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Managed staff of five reporters covering pop music, popular culture, television, film, dining and general entertainment. Helped staff identify opportunities to improve quality of writing, reporting and news judgment. Successfully lobbied for 1A placement of numerous stories.Major Accomplishments: Worked with A&E team on expanding coverage to include more.

Greater New York City Area

Contracted by Simon & Schuster/Free Press to write a book — Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South — on Southern music and culture. Traveled across South, from Carolinas to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, to research and report. Began writing book in 2001, moved back to South to complete it. On the.

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw editorial content in various departments at music channels MTV and VH1.Major accomplishments: Part of team that launched popular MTV daytime show TRL. Helped develop three VH1 series, The Daily One, The Rankin Files and Rock Show. Helped plan music coverage for Clinton-era VH1 White House lawn event, Concert of the Century. Helped plan music.

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw magazine's music coverage. Managed staff of editors and writers responsible for deciding on mix of music news, features, profiles and reviews.Major Accomplishments: Helped bring a new sense of vitality and competitiveness to Rolling Stone's music pages with up-to-date coverage during a transitional period in popular music.Notable first-time cover.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversaw all aspects of the alternative music and culture magazine's editorial content. Planned, assigned and edited literally everything that went into the book: an average of eight features, eight profiles and 200 capsule album reviews. Also wrote cover stories, features and reviews.Major Accomplishments: Attracted name music writers including Holly.

Researched science articles; wrote feature stories.

Began as police reporter; promoted to county government and general assignment; wrote weekly pop-music column.

Ba, English, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Tau (philosophy society), campus political agitator, member of a punk band.Outstanding Alumnus, 1998

Certificate, Summer Institute In Book And Magazine Publishing