Staff Writer/Interactive News at The Wichita Eagle/Kansas.com
Wichita, Kansas Area
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- Staff Writer/Interactive News at The Wichita Eagle/Kansas.com
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- Region 7 Director at Society of Professional Journalists
- Crime and Courts Reporter at The Wichita Eagle
- Staff Writer at Springfield News-Leader
- Reporter at News-Leader Media Group
- Sports writer at USA TODAY
- Education
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- Missouri State University
- Parkview High School
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Ron Sylvester’s Summary
I have covered just about every beat available at a newspaper, from sports writing, to arts and entertainment, medicine, health, science and technology, crime and legal affairs. I currently am entering the new frontier of on-line multimedia reporting with Kansas.com. I want to continue to stretch the bounds of journalism, using applications such as Twitter to report the news.
Ron Sylvester’s Specialties:
Open records, specialty and beat reporting, writing, emerging uses of technology in journalism.
Ron Sylvester’s Experience
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Staff Writer/Interactive News
The Wichita Eagle/Kansas.com
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MNI; Newspapers industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Recognized as an innovator in interacive reporting for our newsroom, I have also helped train other reporters in gathering and producing multimedia stories. I have consistently ranked as one of the top reporters in online readership at Kansas.com and have received national and international coverage by professional journals for my use of social media, especially Twitter, in reporting live news.
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Region 7 Director
Society of Professional Journalists
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2004 — September 2008 (4 years 1 month)
National Board member representing Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. During the time I was on the board SPJ had 10,000 members. As Region 7 Director, I led efforts to revitalize dormant chapters in St. Louis and Des Moines. I started the Technolo-J blog to help others learn about online and multimedia journalism. I presented workshops andseminars about multimedia reporting and social network journalism at regional and national conferences. I was named Regional Director of the Year in 2007.
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Crime and Courts Reporter
The Wichita Eagle
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
March 2000 — February 2007 (7 years)
Covered all aspects of the legal system in both federal and state court and did participated in database and computer-assisted reporting projects.
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Staff Writer
Springfield News-Leader
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
December 1976 — February 2000 (23 years 3 months)
Covered a variety of beats, including high school, college and professional sports; arts and entertainment; science and technology, public health and medicine, environment and general assignment news.
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Reporter
News-Leader Media Group
(Newspapers industry)
1976 — 2000 (24 years)
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Sports writer
USA TODAY
(Newspapers industry)
1985 — 1985 (less than a year)
Ron Sylvester’s Education
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Missouri State University
1977 — 1982
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Parkview High School
1973 — 1977
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Ron Sylvester’s Interests:
Parenting, fitness, home improvement, photography and videography, gardening with native plants, buying local foods and services.
Ron Sylvester’s Honors:
1989: Investigative series on university sports spending named by AP as one of the top 10 enterprise sports story of the year for circulation size.
1998-99: Media Awards from the Missouri Public Health Association reports on restaurant health inspections (1998) and antibiotic resistance (1999)
2003: Burton Marvin Enterprise Award, University of Kansas, for coverage of the capital murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr.
2003: Journalism Excellence Award, the Wichita Eagle,Carr coverage.
2005: Journalism Excellence Award, the Wichita Eagle, BTK coverage.
2005: Writing award, the Wichita Eagle, for narrative writing of BTK court coverage.
2006: Best story, the Eagle, reporting on increase of federal immigration crimes.
2006: First place, news story, "BTK Confesses," Kansas Press Association.
2007: Regional director of the Year, Society of Professional Journalists.
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