Richard Watkins Email & Phone Number

Austell, Ga, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

An "All Topics Producer / Interactive designer" is a media specialist who creates and promotes news stories across multiple online platforms.I manage two websites for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: myAJC.com, a premium website designed for subscribers and ajc.com, a quick access site of top headlines, news summaries, entertainment and other features for the social media consumer.My current responsibilities: • Enhance, aggregate and display content from multiple sources or… Show more An "All Topics Producer / Interactive designer" is a media specialist who creates and promotes news stories across multiple online platforms.I manage two websites for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: myAJC.com, a premium website designed for subscribers and ajc.com, a quick access site of top headlines, news summaries, entertainment and other features for the social media consumer.My current responsibilities: • Enhance, aggregate and display content from multiple sources or channels while identifying, developing and executing unique interactive graphics. • Optimize each digital story to present the most compelling, timely and relevant content to our Atlanta audience to increase site engagement and maximizing traffic potential.• Ensures content is optimized for search engines, by using SEO-effective words on story level pages and channels.• Promote myAJC and AJC content by engaging directly with our audience through social media (Facebook and Twitter).• Conceptualize and execute interactive graphics that visualize trends, breaking news, numbers and other data while increasing user engagement on both sites.• Examine real time metrics and user data to make informed decisions on promoting news content across desktop, tablet and mobile platforms.• Collaborate with our marketing department to promote multiple AJC products or initiatives. Show less

Atlanta, Ga

My responsibilities: While keeping the reader in mind, utilize the AJC’s style to design covers and inside pages for various sections of the print and online newspaper. Also conceptualize and create informational graphics or illustrations to accompany stories in the newspaper. Highlighted achievements: • Lead designer for a group tasked to redesign the Travel section with new market research data which resulted in a very popular reader feature “A weekend in…”. • 2008 Silver… Show more My responsibilities: While keeping the reader in mind, utilize the AJC’s style to design covers and inside pages for various sections of the print and online newspaper. Also conceptualize and create informational graphics or illustrations to accompany stories in the newspaper. Highlighted achievements: • Lead designer for a group tasked to redesign the Travel section with new market research data which resulted in a very popular reader feature “A weekend in…”. • 2008 Silver Award of Excellence from the Society of News Designers’ annual international design competition for an editorial special section “40 Years Later: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” • 2008 Best of Cox Award for Alternative story telling through graphic design. • 2007 Best of Cox Award for the redesign of the AJC’s Homefinder section. Show less

Detroit, Michigan

My responsibilities: Layout design and illustration Highlighted achievements: • 2003 Award of Excellence from the Society of News Designers’ annual international design competition in the category of features special section “Detroit’s Dance with the Master: Degas”. • 2003 “Moneta J. Sleth Award” from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for page design. •2001 Society of Publication Designers award for an illustration about the “Fear of flying”.

Flint, Michigan

My responsibilities: Layout design and illustration Highlighted achievements: • 2000 Michigan Associated Press (AP) award for informational graphics. • 1997 Award of Excellence from the Society of News Designers’ international design competition