Award-winning journalist with proven leadership skills. More than 30 years of experience that includes print, broadcast and digital journalism. Career highlights include coverage of space shuttle landings, a two-week assignment to the former Soviet Union, coverage of the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake and the Amerithrax saga in Frederick, Md. Currently the Managing Editor of the Kingsport Times News, a daily serving the communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.For almost 20 years, I have honed my skills as a dependable leader managing journalism operations in the fast-paced environment of daily newsgathering.I have been a professional journalist for more than 30 years, with a proven record of change-inducing project work and watchdog journalism. My awards include some of journalism’s top honors, for example, Scripps Howard Public Service, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, two SABEW Best In Business awards as well as multiple state and national Freedom of Information awards. Additionally, my team at the Bristol Herald Courier received the 2018 Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism. I included a link to the winning project.You will find me to be an enthusiastic team player with a strong work ethic and advanced problem-solving skills. I am the type of manager driven to educate and motivate others, and I will promote organizational and individual productivity.
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