Neil Thompson Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio

• My primary job responsibilities were supervising content strategy for all 12 ThisWeek editions and serving as lead planner, developer and editor for the organization’s various special projects and initiatives.• For more than a decade, I served as primary editor of several community editions, including ThisWeek’s Dublin Villager, Hilliard News and Worthington News.• My daily job responsibilities included:o Editing and proofreading.o Writing headlines, captions, stories and… Show more • My primary job responsibilities were supervising content strategy for all 12 ThisWeek editions and serving as lead planner, developer and editor for the organization’s various special projects and initiatives.• For more than a decade, I served as primary editor of several community editions, including ThisWeek’s Dublin Villager, Hilliard News and Worthington News.• My daily job responsibilities included:o Editing and proofreading.o Writing headlines, captions, stories and other news components, as well as in-depth and breaking stories, when necessary.o Editing and posting breaking news stories to ThisWeekNEWS.com and helping manage the website.o Managing multiple social-media accounts.o Overseeing design of newspapers on a desktop-publishing system.o Writing and producing for news videos featuring community leaders.o Training and coaching reporters and other editors.o Working closely with the public as a primary point of contact.• Special reporting projects I have developed include:o A two-part look at how and why 24 central Ohio law-enforcement agencies are using body-worn video cameras, a project no other local news outlet had undertaken.o A four-part, in-depth investigative report on the enigmatic Christians of Faith Academy, a Columbus-based school that seemed to materialize out of thin air and was rocked by controversy with a local church.o An annual storytelling initiative on grassroots cancer-research-funding nonprofit Pelotonia, complete with dozens of profiles on riders.o Multiple stories related to the use of cutting-edge technology and legislation with community-based impacts. Show less

Columbus, Oh

• Editor of ThisWeek’s Hilliard Northwest News, New Albany News and Worthington News weekly editions. I oversaw three full-time reporters and a few freelancers.• Daily job responsibilities included: editing and proofreading news stories for publication; supervising the production of weekly news sections; writing headlines, cutlines, stories and other publication elements; writing, editing and posting stories for ThisWeek’s website, ThisWeekNEWS.com; managing social-media accounts; and… Show more • Editor of ThisWeek’s Hilliard Northwest News, New Albany News and Worthington News weekly editions. I oversaw three full-time reporters and a few freelancers.• Daily job responsibilities included: editing and proofreading news stories for publication; supervising the production of weekly news sections; writing headlines, cutlines, stories and other publication elements; writing, editing and posting stories for ThisWeek’s website, ThisWeekNEWS.com; managing social-media accounts; and working closely with readers, local governments and community organizations as a primary point of contact.• Other job responsibilities have included: constructing newspaper designs on a desktop publishing system and writing and producing news videos featuring community leaders. Show less