Joe Murphy

Current

• Senior Developer at The Denver Post

Past

• Senior Online Producer at Winston-Salem Journal
• Web Designer and Developer at Joe Design, Inc. (Self-employed)
• Web Designer at Lightflow

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Education

• Northwestern University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Joe

Connections

192 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My top Denver Post project
• My top freelance project
• My twitter account

Joe Murphy’s Summary

Part web geek, part journalist.

Joe Murphy’s Specialties:

Translating news journalism into the online medium, doing more with existing information, the shortcomings of web analytics, automating what can be automated, MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTML, Python.

Joe Murphy’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  The Denver Post

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  I do web development (front- and back-end) for denverpost.com. I build special-project sites and CMSes ( http://guide.denverpost.com is one), custom web apps and custom functionality add-ons for the existing site ( http://neighbors.denverpost.com and the article comments on denverpost.com is one). It's a mix of database, Python and PHP work, site troubleshooting and QA, and front-end CSS / HTML work. Once in a while they let me write an online poll for the site.

• Senior Online Producer

  Winston-Salem Journal

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 10 months)

  I wrassled with the web site content, did special projects and built one-off web sites (web design, HTML and CSS), built their most- and least-popular article web app and community travel photo sharing app, and got acquainted with the state of the online newsroom.

• Web Designer and Developer

  Joe Design, Inc. (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  September 2001 — August 2006 (5 years )

  This is where I learned to do web stuff. I designed site templates, did the HTML and CSS to make 'em work on the web, and built the back-end CMS' to administer the information. Also I handled sales, other freelancers, and the accounting side of the business. There were plenty of hats to wear here and I learned from each of them.

• Web Designer

  Lightflow

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 11 months)

Additional Information

Joe Murphy’s Websites:

• My top Denver Post project
• My top freelance project
• My twitter account

Joe Murphy’s Honors:

2008 Won an Editor and Publisher award (EPPY) for being part of the team that put together The Denver Post's online community site.
2007 Part of the online team that won the Online News Association's (ONA) General Excellence award for medium-sized newspapers.
2006 I built a database-driven site that took a state database on home healthcare violations and organized it in a way that was useful to people. It won two awards: an ONA award for Service Journalism, small sites and an EPPY for Best Internet Community Service Effort under 1 million unique monthly visitors. http://www.journalnow.org/content/hhc/

Joe Murphy’s Contact Settings

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