About me
After graduating from Bowling Green State University in 2008, Gannett accepted me into its Talent Development Program. I worked as a Web Producer for just over a year at the Detroit Free Press with an enormously talented team.
I entered the graduate program at the Missouri School of Journalism in January 2010. The topics I plan to study include journalism ethics, philosophy, and public policy. I’m also coauthoring a book on the portrayal of the CIA in Hollywood film, scheduled to publish in 2011 or 2012.
During college, I held several editing and reporting positions at The BG News, the campus newspaper. I also interned Technology Daily, a now-defunct online-only publication from National Journal, and WXXI Public Radio in my hometown of Rochester, New York.
Besides my work as a journalist, I also have a background in Web design. I designed this Wordpress theme (freely available if you want it), and I also design personal Web sites — nothing too flashy, but they accomplish what they need to. For example, I designed a Web site for my girlfriend, a philosopher, and led the redesign of the Wordpress-driven ReligionLink for Religion Newswriters.
Feel free to contact me if you’d like to talk more, want to see a copy of my resume, or are seeking writers, Web producers or designers, or journalists with experience developing content for social media.
Disclosures
- I am under contract with the Religion Newswriters as a Web designer. Additionally, I will work for RNA as a paid graduate assistant in the Spring 2010 semester.
- I freelance occasionally as a writer/copy editor on internal publications for ARCADIS.
- I am a paid research assistant for Dr. M. Neil Browne of Bowling Green State University.
- I am a co-author of a forthcoming book on the portrayal of the CIA in Hollywood film.
- I worked for the Detroit Free Press from 2008-2009. I also interned for WXXI Public Broadcasting in 2005 and The National Journal’s Technology Daily (sadly, now defunct) in 2006.
I have donated money to the following since December 2008: