Tom Linthicum Email & Phone Number

• Provide management consultation, coaching, career counseling, facilitation and training in leadership, management, strategic thinking, goal-setting, project management, coaching, team building, performance management, writing and editing.• Provide writing, editing and communications strategy services.• Clients have included the American Press Institute, the Poynter Institute, the International Center for Journalists, The Baltimore Sun, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, the Frederick (Md.) News-Post, the Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail, The Daily Record (Baltimore, Md.), The Catholic Review (Baltimore, Md.), the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia (MDDC) Press Association, the New England Press Association, Patuxent Publishing Co., Comprint Military Publications and The Dolan Company.

College Park, Md.

• Adjunct faculty, teaching news writing and reporting—1996, 2002-2006, 2009-2012; 2014-present. Washington Bureau Chief, Capital News Service--Spring Semester, 2014. • Faculty Mentor Award, 2004-2005.

Grahamstown Area, South Africa

• Visiting Lecturer, Leadership & Management at this Anglican seminary in South Africa• Researched and wrote a plan for a leadership training program for clergy and lay people in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, which includes more than 4 million Anglicans in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Swaziland and St. Helena

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Executive Editor/Vice President of the daily business/legal newspaper and website in Baltimore, Md• Managed staff of 20 journalists; responsible for all news and opinion content, print and online; special sections and magazines.• Collaborated with the publisher and other business executives on strategic planning and new product development. • Served on Editorial Board of parent company, 2006-2007.• Created the newspaper's first editorial and op-ed pages.• Won first-place award for editorial writing from the National Newspaper Association, The Alliance of Area Business Publications, The Dolan Company and the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association in 2011. • The Daily Record was named the best paper of its size in the U.S. by the National Newspaper Association in 2007. Received honorable mention for same award in 2008.• The Daily Record was named the best news organization in The Dolan Company, which publishes business and legal newspapers in 20 markets throughout the U.S., in 2010 and 2011.

Reston, Va.

• Working as an independent contractor, conducted numerous week-long seminars for editors and publishers. Responsible for promoting and marketing the seminars, planning the content, recruiting the speakers and facilitating the events.• Developed content for online courses, promoted them and recruited instructors for them.• Judged numerous journalism contests, for news organizations throughout the U.S.• Trained reporters and editors at newspapers and press associations throughout the U.S. Clients included the New England Press Association, the New York Press Association, Advance Publications, Inc., Swift Communications, Ottaway Newspapers, the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot and Lee Enterprises..

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Director, Employment and Organization Development 1999—2001• Directed all hiring for 1,700-employee organization• Recruited for business-related positions• Designed, conducted training programs for all managers, employees• Designed, launched leadership training program for non-newsroom management candidates • Administered management succession planning program• Chaired Diversity CommitteeAssistant to the Publisher 1998-1999• Wrote strategic plan for Department of Organization Development• Chaired committee that oversaw installation of newspaper’s first computerized publishing system• Planned Executive and Management Committee meetings, special events• Helped develop, write and edit the company’s strategic plan• Wrote speeches, letters, reports for publisherAdministrative Editor 1992-1998 • Served as chief administrative officer for 400-member news organization• Prepared annual operating, capital and news space budgets• Directed recruiting, hiring, training, performance reviews• Directed summer intern program; created two-year intern program• Served as Sun representative on the board of Times Mirror Minority Editorial Training Program for reporters, photographers and copy editors • Monitored labor union contract compliance, labor relations issuesMetropolitan Editor 1984-1992 • Directed all news coverage in Maryland with staff of 55; won numerous state, national awards• Prepared annual operating budget• Recruited and hired staff• Hired the newspaper’s first writing coachState House Bureau Chief 1980-1984Assistant City Editor, State Editor 1977-1980• Led task force that reorganized newsroom structure• Supervised award-winning legislative and political coverageReporter, City Desk 1974-1977

Greater Atlanta Area

Covered education, the state Legislature, City Hall and the historic election of the city's first African-American mayor.