Susan Kille Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Acquire, produce and edit content and assist with marketing and product development for "Turning Points: Global Agenda," an annual magazine published by the International New York Times and published in newspapers and magazines around the world.

Greater New York City Area

Global Parachute -- www.opcglobalparachute.org -- aims to connect journalists around the globe by creating a platform for reporters, photographers, editors and producers to exchange valuable information that will enhance news-gathering and perhaps be life saving.

Expanded news, video and interactive content on the main and niche Web sites of 14 daily newspapers during transition to 24/7 newsroomsEngaged employees, supported corporate goals and established best practices through weekly newsletters, listservs and intranet.Lowered technical barriers for non-technical employees that empowered journalists to focus on core competencies of creating content and audience.Managed vendor relationships, including $3 million Associated Press contract. Expanded monthly in-house multimedia awards program. Led newsroom participation in Yahoo Newspaper Consortium as referrals grew in two years from 4,500 pageviews a month to 843,000 a month.Developed content strategy for niche sites targeting mothers living in seven local markets.

Directed exchange of stories, columns, images, interactive features, resources and ideas among newspapers in six states and four capital bureaus. Managed news bureau staff in Washington, D.C. that served six states.Oversaw team that each month produced 16 electronic layouts of feature and personal finance news for use by company publications and for sale. Selected staff of experts and managed shared coverage of major news events, including national political conventions and Olympics. Developed conferences and training that connected senior editors and newsroom department heads to industry trends and corporate goals.Initiated program for staff members of small and mid-sized newspapers to gain experience by working for two months at The New York Times.

Launched electronic network linking 32 newspapers to increase content, eliminate duplicate coverage and improve quality. Initiated in-house electronic system for exchanging digital photos.Led research into workflow and equipment that enabled newsrooms to convert from film to digital photography. Organized digital training for photo staffs. Established relationships and system that allowed company newspapers, for the first time, to use content from company-owned magazines, including Family Circle, Golf Digest and Tennis.

Responsible for local news coverage and advance planning for news projects. Working closely with other department heads to coordinate coverage.Supervised staff of 18, including Raleigh Bureau and graphic artists.Established the position of a night assistant city editor, moving from the copy desk to the city desk oversight of laying out local pages and editing late stories.

\Worked with city editor to strengthen local coverage. I was the first person – at least in the memory of anyone there at the time – to hold this job.

Hired as a copy editor in December 1979 and moved to reporting staff in December 1980. Covered beach towns and later state government in the days before the Raleigh Bureau. Biggest story was the battle to extend I-40 to Wilmington.

Self-employed at a variety of jobs including stringing for The Charlotte Observer and The Associated Press, writing and editing commercial brochures, feeding cattle and performing yacht maintenance. Writing short fiction was the main objective during this period.

Reporting job evolved into a variety of newsroom jobs, often varying day to day, including reporting for city and feature desks, copy editing, wire editing and laying out regional news editions.