| Objective |
- To find a new career and/or direction after nearly 25 years in the newspaper industry
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- Writing, editing and page production on often extremely tight deadlines. Basic web production and writing.
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| Experience | Dallas Morning News | 508 Young Street; Dallas, TX, 75202 | May, 1988 to December, 2011 |
| | Reporter, copy editor, wires editor, design editor |
| | - --Sports reporter (May 1988 to March 2003): Beats covered included Dallas Cowboys/NFL, Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars/NHL, TCU, Baylor, Southwest Conference, Big 12 and high schools with general assignment duty throughout.
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--Sports copy editor (March 2003 to present): Duties included editing live and advance copy for newsworthiness, factual correctness, grammar, punctuation, spelling and style; writing headlines and cutlines; researching and creating graphic accompaniments; editing/producing special sections; page proofing; publishing stories to our Web site.
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--Wires editor (March 2003 to present): Duties included preparing daily sports wires budgets for meetings in which we break down that day's section; monitoring each individual sports wire for breaking news; writing teasers to stories throughout the paper; compiling briefs packages; handling outside needs (i.e., national wires that pick up our stories).
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--Design editor (August 2007 to present): Duties included designing and building live and advance pages.
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--Blogger (September 2006 to present): In an effort to generate traffic to the DMN Web site, we started individual sport blogs. I began writing for a blog on the Dallas Stars/NHL, writing content and acting as monitor in the first year.
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| | Dallas Times Herald | Griffin Street, Dallas, TX | February, 1985 to May, 1988 |
| | Sports reporter |
| | - General assignments reporting in sports, focusing on area colleges, high schools and feature writing.
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| Education | University of Texas at Arlington | 701 S. Nedderman Drive; Arlington, TX, 76019 | August, 1988 |
| | BA, Journalism |
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