Senior Editor, GateHouse Media
Greater Boston Area
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- Senior Editor at GateHouse Media
- Past
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- Editor at Daily Evening Item of Lynn
- Reporter at Somerville Journal
- Freelancer at various places
- Aide at Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Education
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- College of Hard Knocks
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Kat Powers’s Summary
Staying employed and learning at the same time is a good thing.
Kat Powers’s Specialties:
Talent building, self-promotion.
Kat Powers’s Experience
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Senior Editor
GateHouse Media
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
July 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)
Online guru-in-the-making, making sure one of the hippest places on Earth (Somerville MA) has instant video, stories and photos when they want it, 24-7. I manage user-generated content for said hip city, while publishing the weekly print edition of the Somerville Journal.
I blog with Wicked Local.com, Somerville Journal staff blog, Dirty Water (Go Sox!), Cantabrigia and Cambridge Politics (Cambridge Chronicle).
I'm also the big sister for the Cambridge Chronicle, supporting the staff of the oldest continuously published weekly print paper in the U.S.
I help take young, talented reporters and help them become adults who tell stories in all the formats we can get our hands on – video, MP3s, printed newspapers, online updates, web exclusives, photo slideshows and by blogging. -
Editor
Daily Evening Item of Lynn
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years)
Overnight editor
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Reporter
Somerville Journal
(Newspapers industry)
March 1995 — September 1997 (2 years 7 months)
Learn lots, write lots.
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Freelancer
various places
(Newspapers industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years)
Wrote for several New England newspapers and magazines, ran a research department for a headhunter, continued my informal education.
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Aide
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(Political Organization industry)
1993 — 1993 (less than a year)
Learned first-hand how state government works working for a state senator.
Additional Information
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Kat Powers’s Interests:
Newspapers, baking, rock music, gardening, Abe Lincoln, Carl Sandburg
Kat Powers’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
