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Recent Projects
  • Created Edit Express, a growing and vigorous writing service.
  • Developed series on cholesterol for a consumer health website.
  • Provided extensive reporting on local government reform.
Accomplishments
  • Editor of three newspapers
  • Former president of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors 
  • Instituted precise system for creating local enterprise reporting
Resume

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Dave is a Philadelphia-based journalist with vast experience in newspapers, magazines, websites and newsletters. He is both a writer and editor who can take an assignment from start to finish, or polish the work of others.

Professional Experience

City/Metro editor: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Daily News, Rockford, Il. Register Star

Deputy Metro editor: The Detroit News, overseeing large suburban staff

Managing editor: InteliHealth, award-winning consumer health website

Editor: Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa., The Trentonian, N.J., The Advocate, Stamford, Ct.

City government reporter: The Pittsburgh Press

Reporter/columnist: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editor/writer: Edit Express, with work appearing in newspapers, websites and magazines

Skills and specialties

Reporting and writing consumer health topics, local government, breaking news, trends that change the face of a community or region, bringing impact of legislation home to readers.

Technical Skills

 CCI; Microsoft Outlook;  MS Word; Windows.

Other

An idea fountain for stories, quick to spot subjects and story angles before many others.

 
Available for

Large and small projects, including:

  • Business writing, including news, and internal business needs such as reports and newsletters.
  • New features for general-interest newspapers.
  • Website writing.
  • Consumer health coverage
Education

Extensive journalism training in both Melbourne and Sydney Australia as part of a four-year program for young journalists at the Melbourne Herald, now the Herald-Sun.

Included was training in business news, police and court coverage, general news assignments and serving as an editor and reporter in the Sydney bureau of the Herald.

Also received important training in newspapers in New Guinea, reporting, writing, editing and taking photographs for an emerging newspaper business there. 

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