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client: The Chronicle
Description: The Chronicle is an award-winning weekly college newspaper, covering Long Island's Hofstra University and the general college scene. Unlike many college papers, The Chronicle is run completely by students—meaning the experience is incredibly demanding and time-consuming, but also very fruitful (read: exhausting). Staffers are responsible for all aspects of the paper's management and publishing, including all editorial and business decisions.

Role/Projects: I did a lot of different things at The Chronicle, beginning as a news and entertainment writer, progressing up to News Editor and weekly columnist, and winding up my career as the paper's Editor in Chief. Along the line I learned to write a little bit of everything, and running the paper gave me a good feel for the larger issues of project management.

The Results: Well, I won plenty of individual awards for my writing, but you can see those on my resume. However, the accomplishment I'm most proud of is that during my tenure as Editor in Chief, the paper received an All-American Status with Four Marks of Distinction (out of five) from the Associated Collegiate Press. There's really no higher award in collegeiate journalism. Besides that, I was proud to train a talented staff that continued to win awards and write great stories years after I left.

The Links (just a sample, as I have books of this stuff—and I'll post more when I can):

  • Crossing the Line—Column #1: Crossing the Line was my weekly column (and, admittedly, a pretty lame play on my last name). This particular one discussed a recent trip I had to New Orleans, and the feelings it evoked.
  • Crossing the Line—Column #2: This one dealt with my weekend job, working overnight on a conveyor belt. It gave a little bit of perspective on life, I think—and it also won me an award (Third Place in the Society For Collegiate Journalists' national competition).
  • Crossing the Line—Column #3: Basketball, equality, and the meaning of life, more or less. I wrote this in response to some racial issues that were happening on campus—stuff that, to me, just didn't make sense.
  • Movie Review: Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk Till Dawn was an interesting movie. Here's the review I wrote way back when.
  • Album Review #1: Green Day wasn't always huge, and this review was on their breakthrough album before it broke through. If I could only pick stocks this well.
  • Album Review #2: A Sarah McLachlan review, with the same situation as the Green Day review—before she hit it big. Clearly, without this sanguine article, McLachlan was doomed to a long career of singing in arctic bars in her Canadian homeland.