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My work
I am sports editor for FLORIDA TODAY, but I also am constantly using all my multimedia producer skills. I supervise the desk and writers who put out the sports section of the newspaper, shoot and edit video, design and maintain sections of our Web site, create Flash interactive graphics, write stories and a fitness column and do whatever else is required to make our Web site great.
Please visit: www.floridatoday.com
 
Name: Lee Nessel
College: University of Miami, 1997
Major: Journalism/religion
Also speak:Spanish (some Russian, Arabic)
Athletics:Swimming, triathlon, powerlifting
Favorite assignment:Covering the Orioles vs. Cuban national team in Havana, 1999.
Favorite Quote: Self-confidence may seem like arrogance to those less secure. THE MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST Ground Zero
Nov. 2001 Bahamas dive 
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WORK HISTORY
Dec, 2006 to present	Florida Today	Melbourne, FL
SPORTS EDITOR
Supervise department of 16 reporters and copy editors.
Responsible for print and online sports content, and coordination of FL sport
bureau (three other Gannett papers)
Aug, 2006 to Dec. 2006	Florida Today	Melbourne, FL
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Supervise sports copy desk to produce nightly sports section.
Designed and maintain online high school sports section  that includes a main index and 20 sub pages – one for each football-playing school. (floridatoday.com/preps)
Shoot, edit and post video, post photo galleries as needed.
Train staff on online skills.
Write monthly fitness column.
2002 to Aug. 2006	Florida Today	Melbourne, FL
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER
Reported, edited, maintained content, breaking news and multimedia online.
Coordinated with all department editors on short-term, long-term and daily multimedia project planning.
Shot, edited, compressed and posted video and audio. 
Produced interactive Flash presentations and other online graphics.
Enhanced content with links, polls, photo galleries, forums and multimedia.
July 2000 to 2002	Florida Today	Melbourne, FL
COPY EDITOR
Designed 1A and 1B section front pages, edited/sorted local and wire copy.
Special section layout.
1997 to 2003		
FREE-LANCE MAGAZINE WRITER
Featured in Islands, SWIM, Swimming World, Southern Diver, Skin Diver and Espacio Profundo (Mexico) and Dive Report (industry publication).
June 1999 to July 2000   Key West Citizen	Key West, FL
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Often did front page and entire paper layout using QuarkXpress.
Photoshop color correction, sizing and cropping of photos.
Also contributed stories and columns.
January to June 1999	Key West Citizen	Key West, FL
SPORTS EDITOR
Coordinated coverage of county’s three high schools and all other prep, youth, recreational and outdoors sports.
Wrote sports stories and a Sunday column, and acted as photographer as well as writer.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Final Cut Pro, Avid Xpress Pro, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, some Fireworks and Freehand, MS Office, Harris, Saxotec, Keyhole, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Sorenson Squeeze, Cleaner, imovie.


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