1. JANIE PALESCHIC
915 Pavillion St., Dallas, TX 75204 | C: 214-908-4950 | jpaleschic@dallasnews.com
Summary
Experienced multimedia editor versed in a wide range of digital and printstorytelling for business, metro and
internationalnews.
Highlights
Closing in on growing Twitter followers to 1,000 Leading through change
Use Facebook to linkto appropriate content. Evaluating reporters and developing "stretch" goals
Wordpressand Parse.ly Coaching for better stories and stronger digital
Embracing and breaking down complextopics(Ilove efforts
my whiteboard.) Empowering reporters to experiment and take on new
Directing and editing big breaking stories. tasks
Solid news judgment, good instincts Negotiating with other news departmentsfor best
Facilitating a productive meeting or brain-storming outcome
session Team player
Strong ties to the community
Experience
Deputy business editor 06/2008 to Current
The Dallas Morning News
Directing the news department in the businesseditor'sabsence
Take a lead in shaping the businessnews report for digital and print
Manage at least five reporters, pushing them to expand their digital efforts while still writing PICA
Expertise in breaking news and enterprise on the Dallas business establishment,health care,economy,energy and the
environment,realestate, Washington economic and businesspolicy,technology and the Mexico-Texasrelationship.
Serve on intern selection committee with an eye towards diversity
Helped put together a meeting of The Dallas Morning News energy board.
Work with Karen Robinson-Jacobs, digital and otherson Blue Bell recall.
Work with Michael McCray, Sean Lester, Michael Lindenberger,photo and graphics on Supreme Courtdecision in June
2015 on Affordable Care Act.
Work with James Osborne on coverage of the Energy Future Holding bankruptcy.
Coordinated and edited coverage of rolling electric blackouts ofFebruary 2011,working with reporters Elizabeth Souder,
Gary Jacobson and Sam (S.C.) Gwynne on four 1A SundayPICA stories over the next month.My editslargely consisted
of distilling and focusing our ongoing discussions.
Helped conceive,direct and edit major portionsof the 2010 series looking atvarious aspects of"drowning in debt."
Helped conceive,direct and edit major portionsof the 2009 award-winning serieson health care, The Cost ofCare.
Assistant business editor 11/1998 to 06/2008
The Dallas Morning News
Responsibilities similar to deputybusinesseditor, but also worked asdeputy as needed. At one time,Imanaged four
technologywritersand shaped technology coverage.
Also of note:
Directed and coordinated a three-day serieson the TXUCorp.buyout.
Launched newbeats including the business and governmentbeat and a beat aimed at millennialworkers.
Guided and edited series on howtech companiesstudy young usersto discover to shape future products and another on
"bad software."
Coordinated newsroom coverage of the Y2K bug,
Worked for six weeks on the terror/war desk in the aftermath of 9/11, and returned for a month in 2003 to edit Iraq war
coverage, usuallythe main story most nights.

2. Assistant metro editor 07/1993 to 11/1998
The Dallas Morning News
Directed and edited a group of at least sixreporters covering state and federalcourts,social services,the environment,
neighborhoodsand DallasCounty, including mentalhealth and mentalretardation issuesand juvenile justice.
Pitched in as needed on other shifts, including day city editor.
Directed the award-winning series "Kidswho Kill,"a look at the life of the offenders and their families and the victims and
their families.
Worked with reporters, editors and community leaders to improve religion coverage,including creation ofa weekly
six-page Religion section..
Supervised a shifting team of reportersto write 168 victim profiles after the 1995 Oklahoma bombing.We mail an
abbreviated version to alltheir families.
Itinerant journalist 08/1991 to 05/1993
Worked stints asassistant food editor at The Richmond News Leader/The Richmond Times Dispatch in Virginia and as
a copy editor atThe Boston Globe.
Assistant business editor 09/1987 to 05/1991
Los Angeles Times Downtown
Directed and edited a revolving cluster of reporters, which at various times included topicssuch as regionaleconomics,
housing/realestate, agribusiness, energy, advertising and marketing,retail, consumer affairs, the Pacific Rim, San
Francisco and Mexico City/Latin America.
Conceived and edited many series that won nationalawards, including the firstto detailculturalclashes between
American workers and Japanese bossesand another thatoutlined the possible dangers of having no real nationalenergy
policy.
Foreign editor 10/1982 to 09/1987
The Dallas Morning News
Managed a full-time staff of six, including three bureausand three editors.
Developed an extensive and reliable free-lance network
Directed coverage of every major international event during the five-year period, including wars, naturaldisasters,
terrorist bombings, etc.
Conceived and guided execution of major projects, including series and special sections
Assistant foreign editor 07/1981 to 08/1982
The Dallas Morning News
Copy Editor 03/1981 to 08/1982
The Dallas Morning News
Reporter and news editor 01/1975 to 03/1981
Early career in Austin
I covered the state Legislature, the governor and state agencies atLong News Service,and cops, courts and GA at The
Austin Citizen, where I also did a stint as earlymorning news editor.Iwrote feature-length articles and shorter items and
helped develop coverage ideasas a contributor to The TexasObserver.
Education
The University ofTexas, 1975, bachelor of journalism with honors