This is a condensed portfolio showing key moments from my career as an AME/News, senior 1A editor, special-projects designer, and art director from 1995 to 2008. The bulk of that time was spent as an AME/News at The Journal News, a then-150,000-circulation daily just north of New York City. I was a key voice on several content-driven redesigns there, working closely with Nanette Bisher and eventually writing the newspaper's visual style guide in 2001. Meantime, I was serving as a supervisory editor on our 30-person night news desk, running the night news operation solo or in conjunction with our executive news editor and two other AMEs. I went on to serve as group editor of a dental publication startup in 2006-2007, introducing more content via a redesign and managing up to 50 outside contributors. In April 2007 I joined venerable Wiley-Blackwell in Hoboken as editor of The Hospitalist, where I spearheaded expanded coverage and a newsier redesign and hammered our two main competitors with faster, better coverage of hospital medicine and its practitioners. Since July 2008, I've served as art director at The Week magazine, a 500,000-plus circulation news review magazine based in Manhattan. In short, I'm a word guy who turned into a visuals guy. I'm an AP style guru who can crank out crisp heads with just the right tone and massage copy until it sings. I love to create new editorial concepts, imagining the content and visuals simultaneously, then sitting down to produce the comps. There isn't a facet of publishing (in print or online) that I don't love, from assembling the editing a string of news briefs to crafting the perfect refer package or column sig/logo, to assigning a full-blown, long-range enterprise package and seeing it through to completion.
