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Kenneth R. George

176 Park Avenue Arlington, MA 02476
781-646-2599
kennethrgeorge@yahoo.com
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CAREER SUMMARY

Over ten years of professional experience in web producing and/or project management for news and information websites.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WBUR, BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA
www.wbur.org
New Media Production Manager, 2000 – present
Managed a team of web producers, designers and programmers and supervised updates of wbur.org and affiliated websites.

Created multimedia features with graphic, audio and/or video components

Managed special projects including award-winning site on Madagascar

Managed breaking news updates during intense news cycles

Collaborated with marketing staff, producers and designers on special projects

Wrote online features including reviews and blog on the build-up to the war in Iraq

Rewrote and copyedited radio news summaries

Edited and prepared audio and images for web use

Supervised and trained interns

Produced weekly podcast: conceptualized topics, wrote scripts, edited audio

MASSLIVE, Springfield, MA
www.masslive.com
Production Editor/Manager, 1998-2000
Coordinated aspects of web production during the start-up phase and spanning several successive design rollouts.

Created online technical style guide

Reviewed page templates for compliance with company standards

Trained news producers in web methodologies, graphics software and HTML

Collaborated with the designer on homepage redesigns

Moderated online community forums

Wrote email newsletters

Created graphics and prepared photographs

Editor of special college section and of Western Massachusetts visitor’s guide

Wrote headlines and summaries for the homepage

Wrote headlines and summaries for the homepage

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, MA
www.csmonitor.com
Web Production Assistant, 1996-1998
Part of the production unit responsible for the international newspaper’s online presence.

Wrote headlines, summaries, reviews and news quizzes

Produced and edited online audio news summaries

Compressed video for the web

Created graphics and prepared photographs for the homepage

Rendered text and informational graphics from the newspaper into HTML

Supervised daily production during production manager’s absence

COMPUTER/WEB SKILLS

Authoring Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, RealMedia Producer, Macromedia Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Microsoft FrontPage, BBEdit, iMovie, Adobe Premiere, SoundForge, FastEdit,
Audacity

Languages:
HTML, Use (not creation) of ASP, Pearl, Javascript, Java, UNIX, PHP

Platforms:
Windows, Mac

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Art, 1989
Earlham College, Richmond, IN

Additional course work in graduate level journalism, communications and web production at Harvard Extension School, Boston University, and Emerson College

INTERESTS

Current events, writing, internet technologies, news media

Iraq Weblog

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During the build-up to the war in Iraq, WBUR maintained a daily weblog, chronicling aspects of the story of the war on Iraq from an online perspective. Producers Ken George and Will Thomson wrote on topics ranging from international reaction, to the war’s potential death toll, to the media’s coverage.

Click here to read the blog.

ArtsCast Podcast

Podcasts

“ArtsCast” was WBUR’s podcast dedicated to all things cultural in New England and beyond. Hosted by Bill Marx, who has been critiquing the arts in Boston for over 20 years, and produced by Ken George, the podcast was an experiment born from a desire to cover cultural issues with the same depth and passion of WBUR’s Online Arts ‘Zine.

Click here for a list of all the podcasts.

Madagascar: Fanstastic Forests

Visit Site

A media-rich website exploring one of the most biodiverse places on earth. Environmental journalist Dan Grossman surveys unusual plants and animals of what could be the first place where the struggle to preserve earth’s diversity of life is won or lost.

Click here to visit the site.

Hemlocks: Druids of Old

The hemlock forests of Massachusetts are under invasion.

Jailhouse to Penthouse

What do Malcolm X, Sacco and Vanzetti, famed Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, and the Boston Strangler have in common?

Video: Whale Calls and Sonic Science

Using specially designed acoustic buoys, scientists will monitor and record the sounds of the whales.

Halloween Creature Features

Skip the multiplex and sink your teeth into some of these classic gothic horror gems instead.

The Monitor’s Links Library

ADVOCACY

Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival is a non-profit advocacy group that promotes the rights of indigneous peoples around the world. The site includes project summaries, as well as a very impressive collection of links to complimentary sites. Economy of design and intutive interface makes getting around easy.

Serbian Dawn: Reintegration and Renewal

Zoran Djindjic Speaks at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government