Christopher Kelly Email & Phone Number

New Jersey, United States

I oversee the largest newsroom in New Jersey, including nearly 150 editors and reporters. Executive producer and director the "Father Wants Us Dead" podcast.

New York City Metropolitan Area

- Oversee entire news and features operations for NJ Advance Media, providing content for NJ.com and its affiliated newspapers. - Senior newsroom leader managing ten editors and overseeing more than fifty reporters, from breaking news to statehouse coverage to project and investigations.

Greater New York City Area

• Manage a team of twenty editors, reporters and multimedia specialists, across all news categories, including immigration, the environment, food, arts and entertainment, education, health, transportation and legal weed.
• Part of a three-person senior leadership team that directs coverage of all breaking, local and state news for the largest news organization in New Jersey.
• Develop and manage audience growth initiatives, including social video verticals, podcasts and other special projects.
• Manage story schedules; set and track employee goals; oversee freelance and expense budgets.

Iselin, NJ

• Part of a senior leadership team that guided the transition of the Star-Ledger to a digital-first newsroom model, generating online content that is later repurposed for the print edition.
• Manage a team of nine reporters and multimedia specialists, as well as ten regular freelancers, in covering all aspects of New Jersey lifestyle, entertainment and culture.
• Grew monthly traffic on NJ.com features channels from 8 million page views to 25 million in fewer than two years.
• Broadened coverage of food, weddings, home renovations, local travel and real estate, and grew year-to-year traffic in these categories by over 200 percent.
• Part of a senior leadership team that directs team coverage of breaking local and state news.
• Edited long-form features on the New Jersey hardcore metal scene; the entangled fates of Atlantic City and the Miss America pageant; and a hubristic New York City chef trying to introduce haute cuisine to New Jersey.

• Write monthly cultural pieces for the Sunday “Texas Report.”
• Features on animal behaviorist Louis Dorfman; stunt man Dean Smith; the 20th anniversary of Slacker; and authors Stephen Harrigan, Jim Marrs and Taylor Stevens.

• Wrote “Screens” column on Texas-related film, television and pop culture subjects.
• Long-form features on the battle for marriage equality in Texas (January 2014); the future of Texas libraries (July 2013); the Miss Texas beauty pageant system (February 2011); and Fantastic Fest and the rise of geek.
• Contributed blog posts and short articles to the magazine's Web site.
• Received writing awards from the City and Regional Magazine Association and the National Headliners Association.

Fort Worth, TX

• Redesigned and launched the Star-Telegram's entertainment web site, expanding the paper’s nightlife, dining and local music coverage, and increasing monthly site traffic from 100,000 page views to more than 2 million.
• Prototyped and launched a 40,000-circulation, weekly print publication focusing on entertainment, nightlife, dining and the arts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, helping to draw thousands of new readers to the.
• Expanded the reach of our stories with a strong social media presence and regular appearances on local television and radio.
• Created and edited Web-exclusive programming, including podcasts and video, and trained senior staff members to adapt to a “digital first” newsroom model.
• Managed a staff of writers, designers, photographers and assistant editors.

• Wrote reviews, essays, trend pieces and profiles.
• Managed freelance writers and edited weekly film review section.
• Received writing awards from the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, the Houston Press Club, the Dallas Press Club and the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors.
• Promoted to editor of the newspaper’s entertainment Web site, DFW.com, in 2008.