1. PAUL BOMBERGER
pbomber28@yahoo.com Phone: 561-351-7310
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/crusader82
Multimedia Communications & Managerial Professional
Creative, assertive and accomplished communications professional with fifteen-plus years
experience in journalism with strong managerial experience as an effective leader and motivator
of employees. Proven ability to effectively collaborate and thrive under deadlines as a lead editor
and writer. Excellent reporting and editing skills to produce articles for mainstream multimedia
consumption, including print, online and television media.
• Strong leader, mentor and master motivator • Influencing expertise
• Excellent editing, writing and research skills • Customer relationship management
• Ability to manage teams under tight deadlines • Ability to analyze complex material quickly
• Effective collaborator • Creative and effective communicator
• Persuasive speaker • Proven problem solver and decision
maker
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sun Sentinel, the Tribune Co. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Deputy Business Editor 2006 - 2009
• Managed a professional team in the production of the daily stand-alone business section
and for a time also the Sunday business section. This consistently ensured timely,
relevant and comprehensive reporting.
• Directed reporter coverage of real estate, banking, property insurance, workplace/labor,
marine industry and energy issues. Coverage routinely featured, headlined and promoted
on front pages.
• Oversaw the writing and editing of breaking news articles and enterprise/special projects
for a multimedia audience of more than 2 million people a week. Targeted residents of
Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties with useful and helpful information.
• Handled line editing, headline writing, brainstormed story ideas with reporters, planned
department story budgets, pitched stories for the front page at news meetings ensuring
world news and current business events were appropriately positioned and
communicated.
• Collaborated and led the production of major multimedia special reports on the
foreclosure, home insurance and unemployment crises in South Florida.
• Consistently partnered with design, photo and graphics staff, which allowed for a
compelling presentation.
• Supervised and trained summer intern reporter who later was hired as a business reporter.
• Assisted in managing online business content for the Web site, consistently ranked in the
top 20 nationally among newspapers. Accountable for ensuring appropriate consumer
and business articles were posted on a daily basis.
• In charge of the 15-person business department when business editor was away.
• Promoted from assistant business editor in July 2007.
• Recognized by top management with a financial award for high overall performance.
Palm Beach Post, the Palm Beach Newspapers Inc. (West Palm Beach, FL)
Assistant Business Editor 2003 - 2006
• Partnered in the production of the daily and Sunday business sections.
Paul Bomberger Resume

2. PAUL BOMBERGER
pbomber28@yahoo.com Phone: 561-351-7310
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/crusader82
• Edited state and national award-winning stories on real estate and technology.
• Directed reporter coverage of healthcare, housing, property insurance, tourism and
technology.
• Collaborated with design, photo and graphics staff to produce a reader-friendly, interesting
multimedia presentation.
• Championed the use of a local reporter to travel to Haiti for a major human interest story
on the opening of free medical clinics for the underprivileged. This created front-page
headlines as it involved philanthropic efforts of South Florida doctors.
• Planned story budgets and brainstormed story ideas with reporters. Helped expand daily
coverage.
• Appeared as a guest on local television programs to speak authoritatively about real
estate and economic development.
• Edited and managed special healthcare coverage of staff reporter who was selected for
the most prestigious national one-year health reporting fellowship.
• Served as editor/mentor for summer intern reporter who later was retained on staff.
Lancaster Newspapers Inc. (Lancaster, PA) 1987 - 2003
Business Editor/Reporter
• Edited daily business section.
• Directed all business and financial reporting.
• Reported and wrote award-winning stories on a wide variety of business, financial and
legal topics. Collaborated on local news coverage nominated for a Pulitzer prize.
ABC News, Law and Justice Unit (New York, NY) 1998 -1999
Freelance Reporter/Consultant
• Special project reporting on a Pennsylvania homicide case that on appeal went all the way
to the U.S. Supreme Court. Assisted producers with TV news package on the case.
EDUCATION
Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) Bachelors Degree in Journalism
AWARDS & HONORS
Best in Business in U.S., Sun Sentinel business section, Society of American Business Editors
and Writers, 2006
Schnader Print Media Award for legal reporting, 1st place, Pennsylvania Bar Association, 1999
Investigative reporting,
1st place, Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, 1998
Ongoing news coverage, 1st place, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, 1998
Business news coverage, 1st place, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, 1997
Business news coverage, 1st place, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, 1992
CERTIFICATIONS
Paul Bomberger Resume

3. PAUL BOMBERGER
pbomber28@yahoo.com Phone: 561-351-7310
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/crusader82
Six-month Leadership Development Program, Sun Sentinel, 2008
Business section Design for Content Editors, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, 2005
Understanding Social Security, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Management for Business Editors, American Press Institute, Reston, VA, 2001
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Paul Bomberger Resume