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November 2005
- Present
Assistant Managing
Editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Oversee the newsroom's breaking news team and manage SeattlePI.com.
Transitioned the newsroom from an EOD deadline operation to a Continuous
News operation. Oversee a staff of 15 reporters, editors, online producers,
engineers and designers. Responsible for all aspects of Seattlepi.com,
including business and content development.
March 2004 - November
2005
Investigative reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Stories include an
award-winning investigation of the state's lax dental disciplinary
system. The story won second place in the Best
of the West competition in 2006. Also co-bylined an award-winning
investigation
that found that at least a dozen Catholic priests accused of molesting
minors lived with children for years, often serving as legal parents
or guardians to boys who called the rectory home.
October 2001 -
March 2004 University of Southern California Annenberg School for
Communication Founding editor of Japan Media Review, editor of
Online Journalism Review since June
2003. Managed a staff of producers, editors and freelancers. Taught
online and print journalism, and helped rewrite the school's journalism
curriculum.
May 2001 - October 2001
Freelance writer. Clients include The
Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Salon.
July 2000 - May 2001
PersonalReader.com
Vice President, Business Development.
January - June 2000
Content/project manager, HomePage.com.
1990 - 1999
Reporter, Orange County Register
Covered health and medicine from 1992-1998. I was a lead reporter on
the yearlong Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of
a California fertility clinic, where doctors took eggs and embryos from
patients and gave them to other patients without consent. As a result
of our series, the clinic was closed, the doctors were indicted, the
state legislature passed a law making it a felony to steal eggs and
embryos and the University of California paid more than $20 million
to settle over 100 lawsuits. Click
Here to see my clips.
1989 - 1990
Freelance Reporter, Los Angeles Times
Covered the city of Seal Beach, California.
1985 - 1989
Freelance, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana
Covered entertainment and the music scene, wrote a weekly restaurant
column.
Service
Society for Newspaper Design SNDies
judge, 2006/2007. Board member of SPJ's Western
Washington Chapter, 2006.
Honors
1996: Pulitzer Prize, Investigative Reporting; George Polk Award for
medical reporting; Roy W. Howard award for public service; Investigative
Reporters and Editors gold medal, Sigma Delta Chi award and National
Headliners award for investigative reporting.
Best of the West, project reporting, 2nd Place, 2006.
2005
& 2006:
Numerous SPJ regional awards.
Education
B.A. in Communications, University of New Orleans. Previously enrolled
in USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.
Technical
Photoshop, Dreamweaver, dabbled in Flash, HTML.
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