HUGH HART CONTACT:
email: hughhart6@hotmail.com phone/fax: 818-762-4171
4246 Tujunga Ave. | Studio City, CA | 91604.........PRINTER FRIENDLY

GOAL: Produce compelling stories

WORK HISTORY:
Freelance Writer

• Contributed feature stories about the Internet for Entertainment Weekly
• Wrote feature stories on movies, television, architecture and theater for Los Angeles Times.
• Wrote feature stories on movies and television for New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post, Boston Globe, New York Daily News and others.
• Wrote cover story for October 2000 issue of Emmy magazine; regular contributor to American Cinematographer
• Wrote over four dozen page one entertainment, design and lifestyle stories for Chicago Tribune.
• Wrote articles on graphic design for Print magazine.
• Created, wrote and edited monthly advertorial music section for Chicago Reader alternative weekly.

Managing Editor, Tribune Media Services | Zap2it.com |July, 1999 - present

• Directed editorial content for Zap2it.com. Within six months of joining operations, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and E! Online had listed the site, formerly named UltimateTV, as an outstanding entertainment website.
• Supervised six staffers-- three writers and three graphics artists and eight free-lancers including contributors to Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, Rolling Stone and Ain't It Cool News.com.
• Wrote, assigned and edited reviews, profiles, trend stories, polls and interactive features.
• Directed coverage of Emmy Awards, which broke the site record for daily page views on September 13, 1999.

Editorial Director, Tribune Media Services | TVQuest.com | March, 1998 - June, 1999
Launched TVQuest, a website and partner of America Online. Supervised creative staff and team of 12 free-lancers. Built traffic from ground zero to nearly a million hits a day in eight months. Created editorial features and special sections including an "e-card" holiday promotion with Starlight Foundation, which was covered by CNN and other major news outlets. Conceived and wrote TVGenius, a weekly round-up of humor, trivia and news.

Editorial Director, Tribune Media Services | MovieQuest.com | October, 1998 - June, 1999
Created initial editorial template for MovieQuest, a movie listings service with enhanced editorial content, serving as de facto producer during early stages of project. The site now has 152 newspaper affiliates and a 300,000 plus subscriber base.

Producer, Tribune Media Services/AOL | March, 1997 - Feb., 1999
Re-designed television area for AOL content partner Digital Cities. Created new features, supervised art direction and assembled a team of freelance contributors. New sections, including "Crank," "Eye on Sci Fi" and "Sink or Swim," resulted in 2,100 percent increase in usage of TV Navigator over three month period. Interviewed TV stars including Sarah Michelle Gellar

Producer, Tribune Media Services' marketing website | April, 1999
Coordinated the focus, design, editing and production of marketing website for Tribune Media Service's marketing website. Earned kudos from marketing staff presenting a complex array of data products via an easy-to-navigate interface.

Columnist, Chicago Tribune | Dec. 1992 - Jan. 1997
Contributed two weekly columns for the nation's fifth largest newspaper: Hanging Out covered the city's nightlife. Northwest Scene featured interviews and news about suburban theater, music and comedy events.
1996 Tribune free-lance article cited as one of the"Ten Best Lifestyle Features" of the year by University of Missouri School of Journalism.

EDUCATION:
University of Wisconsin, Bachelor of Arts in English

SKILLS:
Managing Editor, HTML editing programs including FrontPage, Adobe PageMill, Claris Home Page and Dreamweaver; Javascript; Adobe Photoshop; Vignette StoryServer database publishing systems; FTP publishing. Fluent on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems and a wide range of software programs

SAMPLES:
For links to articles check out older editing samples and recent stories.
For link to over 600 Chicago Tribune articles, visit Chicago Tribune archives
Select date range, through 1998, type Hugh Hart in "Author" area and click "Search"

REFERENCES:
Excellent references available upon request