Deputy Managing Editor/Digital at The Star-Ledger
Greater New York City Area
Deputy Managing Editor/Digital at The Star-Ledger
Greater New York City Area
After nearly 20 years of traditional newspapering, I moved into the digital world two years ago as the editor responsible for expanding The Star-Ledger's presence on the Web and finding new ways of gathering and distributing local news and information. Key projects have included building and managing a continuous news desk and training a staff of 330 in blogging, video and other multimedia skills; developing hyperlocal sites in Morristown and Newark; establishing the pharmaceutical industry niche site Pharmalot.com; creating the video aggregation site TVJersey.com; and, most recently, launching Ledger Live, a noon vodcast that showcases the newspaper's video journalism as well as contributions from bloggers across New Jersey.
Newsroom management, project management, new product development
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
1995 — Present (13 years)
These days, I'm focused on expanding our work online. In previous roles at The Star-Ledger, I've edited the weekend papers and the Sunday Perspective section, and served as a foreign correspondent, national political correspondent and rewrite guy.
(Newspapers industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years)
Municipal reporter, bureau chief, Statehouse correspondent and special projects writer.
(Newspapers industry)
1991 — 1992 (1 year)
Early AM cops, general assignment.
(Newspapers industry)
1990 — 1991 (1 year)
Masochism 101
1987 — 1991
Journalism, new media, technology.
Quill & Dagger Society
1998 Finalist for the Livingston Award for international reporting
2005 Pulitzer Prize (as lead writer on The Star-Ledger's coverage of the resignation of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey)
2006 Silver Gavel Award (as editor of a Star-Ledger series on the USA Patriot Act)
Other awards from: Society of the Silurians, South Carolina Press Association, New Jersey Press Association, New Jersey Association of Black Journalists, South Asian Journalists Association.