Stories on the run

I am a sports multimedia producer for The Spokesman-Review covering athletics in and around the Spokane, Wash., area. That means high schools, Washington State University, Gonzaga Unversity, Eastern Washington University, the University of Idaho, Whitworth University, and pro teams such as the Spokane Indians, Spokane Shock and Spokane Chiefs. I do it all. In addition to producing videos, I do some print reporting, including covering the Indians baseball team during summer 2008 and various enterprise projects.

My journey is round-about. I started at The Spokesman-Review in May 2007 and I worked in the Spokane office as night cops reporter. After about six months, I was transferred to the sports department to train to become the next WSU Cougars reporter. I moved to Pullman and lived there for five more months, helping with Cougars coverage (mostly video), before being moved back to Spokane to do general sports multimedia production.

I graduated from WSU with a journalism degree from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. At the student newspaper, The Daily Evergreen, I held numerous positions and worked my way up to editor-in-chief. For a summer, I interned as a full-time business writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and I have freelanced for numerous other Pacific Northwest newspapers.

Links to most of my other web presence can be found on the main page of this blog. More information about me is, of course, available by request.

FYI: In this blog I use datelines to let you know where I’m posting from. If there is no dateline, here’s what it means: If an entry was posted before May 27, 2008, it was written in Pullman, Wash., when I lived there. If it was posted after then, I wrote it in Spokane, Wash. Simple enough, right?