Ron Mcgregor Email & Phone Number

Write display type and edit stories for a variety of newspapers on a daily basis — currently the Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, National Post and others — as a copy editor for Postmedia News based in Hamilton, Ont. Subject areas run the gamut of daily content: lifestyles, business, news, sports.Postmedia's Hamilton operation is an editing/production hub for all nine major dailies in the Postmedia chain. It's an extremely high-volume environment with rigorous attention to detail since pages are sent directly from Hamilton to final output and publication.

Managing Editor responsible for news agenda and production of Daily Commercial News, assigning and working with freelancers for daily articles and monthly technical feature sections.Responsible for all editing and assigning for a daily tabloid newspaper with a small staff: two in-house writer/reporters and a half-dozen regular freelancers.Newspaper content — news, features, briefs etc. — was republished as majority of DCN's web content.

Laid out pages, wrote headlines and edited copy, primarily in News section, but also in other sections of the paper including Financial Post and Arts.Working in a page ownership production system using Adobe InDesign software.