Publication

Tampa Bay Times, formerly

City

St. Petersburg

State

Florida

Country

USA

What best describes you.

Designer, Graphics reporter, Illustrator, Photographer, Manager

About me

I've pretty much done everything in newsrooms large and small, from writing/reporting to shooting/developing/printing/photo editing to designing to copy editing to, well, being an editor. But at the Times, I'm a utility infielder, designing pages in the A, B, business, sports and regional sections, copy editing when needed, pinch-hitting in news art and maybe even writing occasionally.

I've haunted the newsrooms of the Tampa Bay Times/St. Petersburg Times, The Detroit News, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Alliance (Ohio) Review, and the Watsonville (Calif.) Register-Pajaronian (when it was a daily). I also edited a small paper in the Times' shadow for a while, and cut my teeth at a thrice-weekly in a northern West Virginia college town.

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