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Cole Cosgrove

Writer • Editor • Designer • Innovator • Instigator

1950 S. State St.


Tacoma, WA 98405 Experience
253.468.9587 3/2005 to present • The News Tribune • Tacoma, Wash.
www.colecosgrove.com Reporter, web producer, copy editor, designer
colecosgrove@gmail.com • Respond to breaking news: Quickly and accurately report stories for online and print
facebook.com/cosgrove • Lead newspaper production team on deadline during night slot shifts
twitter.com/cosgrove
• Collaborate with photographers and editors to develop online presentation
• Attract readers by writing compelling headlines that are optimized for search engines
• Monitor wire services, RSS feeds, blogs and tweets to stay on top of the cultural zeitgeist
• Manage The News Tribune’s social media presence on Facebook and Twitter
• Coach co-workers by presenting Web training sessions

3/2003 to 3/2005 • Tri-City Herald • Tri-Cities, Wash.


Sunday features editor, copy editor, designer, column writer

1/2001 to 3/2003 • Sound Publishing • Western Washington


Associate editor, sports reporter, page designer

Professional instruction
• Fellowship, Knight Digital Media Center University of California Berkeley
Training in innovative publishing tools and strategy discussions with industry leaders
• Online News Association Workshop exploring developments in online publishing
• Poynter Institute News University: Using SEO to write better headlines for the Web
• Poynter Institute News University: Strategies to write better print headlines
• Editing workshop Tips from Barbara Wallraff of The Atlantic magazine

Awards
• First place, headlines, American Copy Editors Society, for U.S. newspapers of all sizes
• First place, general columns, Society of Professional Journalists, Region 10
• Second place, humor columns, SPJ, Region 10
• Second place, headlines, SPJ, Region 10
• Second place, general excellence, Washington Newspaper Publishers Association
• Second place, best overall sports section, WNPA
• Second place, best sports reporting, WNPA

Education
Western Washington University • Bellingham, Wash. • B.A., Journalism, 1996-2000
Gonzaga Preparatory School • Spokane, Wash. • Graduated cum laude, 1992-1996

Books I’ve copy edited


Journalism 2.0: A digital literacy guide for the information age
Masters of Suspension: The men and women who bridged the Tacoma Narrows

Skills
Adobe InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Omniture, Microsoft Office, Quark XPress, Final Cut,
iMovie, basic HTML, Drupal, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, online content management systems

References
Mark Briggs Dieter Bohrmann Kelly Davenport
CEO, Serra Media News editor, Former co-worker and copy
I copy edited his book Tri-City Herald. editor at The News Tribune.
Journalism 2.0. dgbohrmann@aol.com kdav81@gmail.com
mark@journalism20.com 253-381-0093
253-304-1817

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