1. DAVID WEINER
5760 Ensign Ave. North Hollywood, CA 91601
davidweiner@netzero.net
(818) 434.5629
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Overnight Editor, NFL.com (2011-14)
Executive News Editor, Long BeachPress-Telegram (2006-07)
News Editor, Long BeachPress-Telegram (2000-06)
Foreign Expert, International Business Editor, China Daily (2008-09)
SKILLS
News Editing * Copy Editing * Photo Editing * Proofreading * HTML * SEO
Twitter * WordPress * AP Style * Page Design (Quark, InDesign)
NFL.com, Culver City, Calif.
Overnight Editor (2011-14)
Lone editor on duty from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday-Friday for the official
web site of the National Football League. Responsible for handling
breaking news, updating home page and mobile site, running headline
stack, tracking news for all 32 NFL teams, editing video captions,
aggregating daily news budget, tracking and promoting NFL Network
programming and compiling detailed handover notes for a.m. staff.
Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.
Executive News Editor (2006-07)
Responsible for news operations of Long Beach’s daily newspaper.
Directed news coverage and design of front page, managed copy desk,
ran daily news meetings, hired news editor. Helmed stand-alone special
sections, including holidays, election previews and year-end
retrospectives.
News Editor (2001-06)
Planned front page and coordinated sports, features, and entertainment
coverage. Selected and edited photos. Responsible for making all nightly
deadlines, supervising copy desk and troubleshooting printing problems.
Copy Editor(1999-01)
News, sports, features, photo editing and wire-editing.
China Daily, Beijing, China
Foreign Expert, International Business Editor (2008-09)
2. Worked the desk for China’s largest English-language newspaper.
Mentored young Chinese reporters on writing, reporting and English skills.
Responsible for filling and paginating two pages of international business
news each day.
AWARDS, OTHER JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
Freelance Music Critic, OC Register, 1997-2000
Best Headline, Mid-Range Daily, L.A. Press Club, 2001
Toyota Scholarship Winner (internship, $1,500), CSULB, Spring 1995
EDUCATION
CaliforniaState University, Long Beach
Journalismmajor (1993-97); Editor in Chief, Long Beach Union (Fall 1996)
PERSONAL
Senior Volunteer, BunnyWorldFoundation, 2014-15
REFERENCES
John Futch, former Managing Editor, Long Beach Press-Telegram
(562) 225-1760 or jfutch@aol.com
Justin Hathaway, former News Editor, NFL.com
(916) 743-4633 or jrhath1@gmail.com
Jason Gewirtz, Managing Editor, SportsTravel Magazine
(877) 577-3700 Jason.Gewirtz@SchneiderPublishing.com or jgewiz@aol.com
Morgan Schoerner, Editor and Writer, LakeshoreLearning Materials
(310) 537-8600, or mschoerner@lakeshorelearning.com
Ahmed Ortiz, Web Content Manager, California State University, Sacramento
(916) 278-2388 aortiz@saclink.csus.edu
Larry Rich, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Long Beach
(562) 570-5839 or larry.rich@longbeach.gov