Tim Gross Email & Phone Number

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

• Generated 4,000 page views weekly to the newspaper’s website.• Crafted five stories from start to finish each week on a tight deadline, from ideation, conducting interviews, writing, editing and publishing online. Beats included soccer, ice hockey and track and field. • Demonstrated the ability to actively engage sources with comfortable conversational interviews.• Analyzed sports news coverage web statistics using Parse.ly to make content decisions to improve online readership. • Shot and edited videos on Adobe Premier Elements to accompany articles and share on social media. – Video work included, live sports coverage, athlete and coach interviews, expert commentary panels. – Successful project: Shot, edited and packaged video highlights of Penn State football games. • Published and formatted engaging articles on the CMS System BLOX. • Participated in expert roundtable sports discussions, recapping weekly sports coverage highlights. • Edited copy for clarity, grammar, accuracy, messaging and AP Style.• Live Tweeted sporting events to enhance coverage, engage the community online and increase readership.• Trained fellow journalists about how to construct, build and manage a social media following. • Coordinated the sports department’s use of Team Player, a browser-based application, used to enter, organize, present and archive statistics for the newspaper’s website • Designed newspaper pages in Adobe InDesign

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

• Gathered and analyzed raw data to develop easy-to-understand visual data graphics that accompanied sports news coverage. • Wrote and published 1,000 words a week of community news coverage.• Edited copy for clarity, grammar, accuracy, messaging and AP Style.• Crafted ads for community groups, highlighting upcoming events, new organizations and recreational activities in the Lancaster community. • Acted as the front-facing newspaper contact, answering incoming calls about news leads and connected sources to reporters and editors. • Managed the public sports department email inbox, flagging newsworthy content and providing community feedback.