Todd Rector Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Curate content for and design magazines and full-page print and digital layouts for 60 publicationswithin Lee Enterprises portfolio. Specialize in healthcare, sports, home/garden and agriculture content.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed staff of 11 designers and editors, editing, designing and packaging content utilizing 500 plus content contributors, including Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Mayo Clinic, Inc., New Scientist and MITSloan.• Creative/technical lead for national Evening E-Edition emailed to 400,000-plus Tribune Publishing subscribers.• Create content packages and designs for Auto, Careers, NASCAR, Healthcare, Home and Sports Betting sectors.• Oversee brainstorming meetings for story/slideshow creation and delivery to MSN.com and other clients; design editor for relationship with MSN, helping to ensure content placement on its website.• Conceptualize, assign, edit and write content for digital/print newsletters, pages, magazines and slideshows.• Develop relationships and secure photographer credentials for major events, including Oscars and Super Bowl.• Assign and create daily news and feature graphics for digital and print, editing researched copy.• Assign and create designs for print/online magazine and newsletter business.• Select and edit images to match with stories on Tribune News Service and manage its 10 million photo archive.• Using UX principles, select images for digital/print designs and slideshows; verify for syndication/copyright usage.• Manage relationships with TNS’s 35 major media contributors and 500 regional contributors.• Edit and assemble premium puzzle magazines and pages.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Helped lead Tribune Media Service’s transition from a news/features syndicator to Tribune Content Agency, expanding the business into content-for-marketing sector.• Supervised and performed editing tasks for design team delivering print and online magazines, page designs and e-books to national clients; won company Diamond Award for Brilliant Team.• Created, edited and wrote company marketing materials for print and online.• Helped lead design/editing team creating interactive annual reports for clients such as Chubb Insurance.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

As TV editor, won Employee of the Month award for redesign of TV Weekly and other features sections.• Determined content of features sections by meeting daily with story and copy editors; brainstormed design ideas.• Responsible for designs and editing of various Features sections. • Researched/wrote syndicated beer column for Food section.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Researched, directed and produced House/Techno music documentary, “Kansas City Underground,” for theater and PBS release, winning a Kansas Film Society award.

Hochheim Am Main, Hesse, Germany

Traveled throughout Europe as portrait photographer with assignments at American schools, embassies and NATO.• Set up full portrait studios on-site, utilizing medium and large format cameras.

Exhibited photo works in documentary style and thematic display at art galleries and other public venues.• Work was critically compared to the great street photographer Berenice Abbott.

Covered all news and sports; designed and produced weekly newspaper.• Reported on city hall and parks and police departments; wrote human interest feature stories.• Managed all aspects of photo production; received awards for sports photography.