Jen Westpfahl

Past

• Copy editor at St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Copy editor/page designer at Eau Claire Press Company

Education

• Winona State University

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Connections

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Industry

Newspapers

Websites

• My Blog

Jen Westpfahl’s Summary

Journalist with experience in editing and design. High interest in Web sites, blogs and social media.

Jen Westpfahl’s Experience

• Copy editor

  St. Paul Pioneer Press

  (Public Company; KRI; Newspapers industry)

  July 2006 — June 2009 (3 years )

  As copy editor and news editor: Edited copy and graphics for accuracy, fairness and consistency; wrote headlines for print and then tailored them to be search-engine-optimized for the Web; wrote photo captions and small informational blurbs to draw readers into stories; designed attractive, readable pages with Quark XPress; planned and edited content for geographically zoned editions to be of most interest and relevance to readers.
  
  As wire editor: chose which stories to run in the paper and how prominently; suggested stories for the front page; combined content from several sources; trimmed copy to available space; looked for opportunities to showcase information in non-story form.
  
  Wrote posts for The Daily Juggle blog on Minnmoms.com; was one of the news section’s first copy editors to excel in customizing content for the Web and then took on the task of creating a standard procedure for others copy editors working with Web content.

• Copy editor/page designer

  Eau Claire Press Company

  (Newspapers industry)

  June 2002 — July 2006 (4 years 2 months)

  At The Country Today, designed section covers and inside pages; helped make content placement decisions; edited all copy; wrote headlines; conceived and created maps and charts to facilitate readers’ comprehension of stories. Brought consistency to a formerly haphazard design philosophy.
  
  Worked monthly weekend shifts for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram that included selecting wire stories and photos to use, designing pages, copy editing and writing headlines.

Jen Westpfahl’s Education

• Winona State University

  B.A. , Mass Communication; Business Administration , 1998 — 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  Winonan, school newspaper, 1999-2002. Served as copy editor, news editor and editor-in-chief.

Additional Information

Jen Westpfahl’s Websites:

• My Blog

Jen Westpfahl’s Interests:

Digital scrapbooking, blogging, reading, my kids

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