My Résumé
Levi I. Chronister
2011 Columbia Road NW, Unit 1
Washington DC 20009
Telephone: (785) 550-2863
E-mail: lchronister (at) gmail (dot) com
Personal homepage: http://www.seeingconditions.com
Career Objective
To help lead a team in charge of building quickly developed, yet comprehensive and deep Web sites devoted to local journalism at a level rarely seen in the industry.
Experience
Journalism Technology Specialist/Project Manager, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, Oct. 2006-present
Building, maintaining and creating Web projects for WashingtonPost.com, Slate.com and Newsweek.com.
Manager of site operations and special projects, Naples (Fla.) Daily News, Aug. 2005-September 2006
Built and maintained six web sites and helped lead a team that also created two TV news broadcasts and an alternative weekly publication.
Online sports editor, The World Company, Dec. 2002-Aug. 2005
Creating and managing content for KUsports.com and LJworld.com; covering University of Kansas sporting events and press conferences; designing and publishing a critically acclaimed, award-winning 16-page little-league insert. Click here for some of my articles.
Sports editor, University Daily Kansan, Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002
Supervised and managed about 15 reporters; made daily and weekly assignments for reporters; wrote two columns a week about KU sports.
Assistant sports editor, University Daily Kansan, Jan. 2002-May 2002
Helped supervise and manage about 15 reporters; helped make daily and weekly assignments for reporters; wrote one column a week about KU sports.
Part-time sports writer, copy editor and designer, Lawrence Journal-World, Aug. 1999-Dec. 2002
Wrote two or more stories a week on high school and college sports; copy edited and designed pages one to three nights a week.
News clerk, Lawrence Journal-World, Aug. 1998-July 2002
Asked a daily public-opinion question; typed news briefs and obituaries.
Education
University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Emphasis: Newspaper-editorial
Pittsburg (Kan.) High School — Graduated May 1997.
Awards and honors
Winner for Studio 55, best use of video in a web site (fewer than 1,000,000 unique visitors per month) — Editor and Publisher, 2007.
Winner for marconews.com, general excellence for newspapers (less than 20,000 circulation) — Inland Press Association, 2007.
Winner for naplesnews.com, Best Interactive Online Community — Inland Press Association, 2007.
Winner for naplesnews.com, Best Online Marketplace — Inland Press Association, 2007.
Winner for naplesnews.com, Best Overall News Site — Newspaper Association of America, 2007.
Winner for Studio 55, Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling — Newspaper Association of America, 2007.
Winner for naplesnews.com, Best Local Shopping & Directory Strategy — Newspaper Association of America, 2007.
Winner for naplesnews.com, Best Internet News Service — Editor & Publisher, 2006.
Winner for BonitaNews.com PrepZone, Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling — Newspaper Association of America, 2006.
Winner for LJWorld.com/sports, Best Sports Site — Newspaper Association of America, 2005.
EPpy Award for KUsports.com, Best Internet Sports Service — Editor & Publisher, 2004.
Finalist for KUSports.com, Most Innovative Use of Digital Media, Features/Enterprise — Newspaper Association of America, 2004.
Feature of the Week award for NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage on KUsports.com, Newspaper Association of America, March 2004.
EPpy Award for KUsports.com, Best Internet Sports Service — Editor and Publisher, 2003.
Feature of the Week award for NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage on KUsports.com, Newspaper Association of America, April 2003.
Second place editorial writing — Kansas Scholastic Press Association State Journalism Contest, 1997.
First place editorial writing, first place sports writing, third place page design — KSPA Regional Journalism Contest, 1997.
Second place editorial writing, third place sports writing — KSPA Regional Journalsim Contest, 1996.
Computer skills
HTML, CSS, FTP, Dreamweaver, Quark, NewsEditPro, Microsoft Word, Audacity, and SoundEdit.
Experience with Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, PHP, C++ and Scheme.