JEANNE LEBLANC
8 Foote Road
Burlington, CT 06013
860-675-4648
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An energetic, versatile and dedicated journalist and manager with expertise in multimedia content management and editing photos, video and text. Solid background in news writing, newsroom supervision and project management with strong problem-solving and organizational skills. Proficient in WordPress, Joomla! and CSS.
EXPERIENCE
The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT 2008 - 2009
Online editor
- Managed a staff of 11 editors and producers, supervising daily production of The Courant’s Web site, courant.com, and the local Metromix entertainment site with more than 20 million page views monthly
- Worked with other department heads for The Hartford Courant and managers in Hartford Courant Interactive to expand and improve our news and entertainment Web sites
- Achieved 16.5 percent growth in page views, year over year, in a period of drastic cutbacks in content.
The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT 2007 - 2008
Associate online editor
- Managed a staff of four news producers for The Courant’s news Web site, courant.com.
- Trained staff in traditional and multimedia journalism, including text and video production.
- Worked closely with reporters, editors and photographers across several departments to create and enhance projects on the Web.
- Explained developments on the Web site to print editors at daily news meetings
Senior news producer 1997-2006
- Planned, organized and executed the daily publication of news, sports and business articles; features; photographs; graphics; video; and source material on courant.com
- Administered the travel and outdoors sections of the site. Designed the presentation of an extensive collection of user-generated travel photographs.
- Created, researched and developed a popular, interactive Web presentation featuring hundreds of photographs and eyewitness stories about the Flood of ’55 in Connecticut
- Wrote occasional freelance travel stories and book reviews for The Courant.
Assistant metro editor 1991-1997
- Edited news and feature stories, working closely with reporters, copy editors and bureau editors.
- Managed the metro desk and a rotating staff of reporters on Sundays. Assigned and edited stories and coordinated their placement with the copy desk and department heads.
The Waterbury Republican-American, Waterbury, CT
Assistant regional editor 1986 - 1989
- Coordinated coverage of several towns, managed a team of reporters and edited copy.
- Gave seminars on reporting and writing and produced an in-house newsletter for reporters aimed at sharpening those skills
Technical skills
▪ XHTML / CSS ▪ Movable Type ▪ Gallery2
▪ WorldNow ▪ WordPress ▪ Microsoft Office
▪ Omniture ▪ Joomla! ▪ Adobe Photoshop
SiteCatalyst ▪ Adobe Acrobat Pro ▪ Adobe Premiere
EDUCATION
Charter Oak State College (in process)
Bachelor of Arts
MEMBERSHIPS
Online News Association
Society of Professional Journalists
New England New Media Association
LANGUAGES
Spanish - conversational
