professional blogging and social media services for your business
Allentown, Pennsylvania Area
- Current
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- blogger and proprietor at PostRanger.com
- Past
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- Managing Editor at Berks-Mont Newspapers
- blogger at How to bootstrap your business
- Blogger at www.BootStrapMe.com
- Political/Projects Reporter at Republican & Herald Newspaper
- Tamaqua Bureau Chief at Republican & Herald Newspaper
- Staff Writer at Republican & Herald Newspaper
- Education
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- East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
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Shawn Hessinger’s Experience
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blogger and proprietor
PostRanger.com
(Online Media industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Professional blogging and social media for your business. Contact me for details through this site or at shawn@postranger.com.
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Managing Editor
Berks-Mont Newspapers
(Newspapers industry)
December 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Chief of editorial operations in charge of overseeing production cycle of nine weekly newspapers, numerous side publications and editorial websites in Berks, Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton County, PA
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blogger
How to bootstrap your business
(Media Production industry)
November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
Key contributor on a blog dedicated to bootstrapping business startup on the PostRanger.com blogging community.
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Blogger
www.BootStrapMe.com
(Online Media industry)
June 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Key contributor to a blog focused on bootstrap entrepreneurship, the startup of businesses with little or no outside funding, and a blogger for the Creative Weblogging network which hosts the blog.
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Political/Projects Reporter
Republican & Herald Newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)
Responsibilities included special projects, enterprise and investigative journalism for the paper’s Sunday and other editions. One project was coverage of a government report on the incidence of a rare blood cancer Polycythemia Vera in Schuylkill, Luzerne and Carbon Counties.
Some coverage of county government and other general county news.
Some guidance of newer editorial staff in general, county and political coverage.
Work with photo editor on video to enhance multimedia coverage on the paper’s website.
Training and management of reporters in creation of new digital news segments downloaded and broadcast on local radio.
My accomplishments earned me a place in Times Shamrock Communications “Top Performers Club” making up the top ten percent of the company’s workforce in terms of performance as chosen by management. -
Tamaqua Bureau Chief
Republican & Herald Newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
November 1999 — August 2007 (7 years 10 months)
Responsible for coverage of the Tamaqua area and the rest of eastern Schuylkill County, both as a reporter and photographer and through supervision of staff writers and freelancers.
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Staff Writer
Republican & Herald Newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
April 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 8 months)
County government reporter with additional coverage of courts, health, technology, environment, education and features.
Shawn Hessinger’s Education
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East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
1986 — 1991
