William Watson Email & Phone Number

NYC

Stroudsburg, PA

I write on the American Civil War and provide information and insights on the life of the citizen and the citizen soldier as a consultant.Broken Lance Enterprises is my publishing firm.

Stroudsburg, PA

I provided leadership producing technological and procedural innovation at a small daily newspaper during a time of great upheaval and change, with new owners, a cut-throat obsession with the bottom line on the part of stockholders, top people disappearing without rhyme or reason due to corporate decisions, and a climate that finally forced a confrontation.

Stroudsburg, PA

Lead the newsroom in news gathering and publishing to both print and online platforms, winning numerous awards along the way including a third-place national award for an investigation into home financing fraud in 2001 that preshadowed the collapse of the housing finance industry in 2008. Lecture on re-using print for online and online for print, creating.

Edited a three-a-week newspaper in the foothills of North Carolina. Converted pagination system, won awards, etc.

Albany, Georgia Area

I worked 11 weeks as a costumed extra during the filming of John Frankenheimer's "Andersonville" television movie. This was to pay my respects to my great grandfather William Torpes, who as a private with the 7th NJ Volunteer Infantry survived the worst three months at Andersonville plus two more at Florence and one more in Libby Prison. The pay was bad.

Managing editor (#2 position in newsroom). Supervised conversion of content management system from mainframe to Macintosh-based, incorporating a hodgepodge of computer equipment McClatchy inherited when they bought a paper in Anchorage. Oversaw reporting that led to the resignation of the Rock Hill town manager for obfuscating the appropriation and use of.

Cape May, Cumberland And Atlantic Counties, NJ

Well, I wasn't actually reporter the whole time, but since it was reporter at the beginning, then bureau chief, assistant editorial page editor, assistant managing editor in the middle and then "special projects" reporter at the end, reporter is just fine. Find out what's going on; tell people. Same job, different titles. Multiple awards for many.

Political Science, Journalism, English Lit

Activities and Societies: Copy editor with the student-run Daily Orange, the university's daily paper. Active as a worker bee in a student.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society Co-editor, school newspaper

Recess; Jacks