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WORK HISTORY:
Freelance Writer
- Currently cover pop culturefor Wired.com and Wired Magazine.
- Currently write weekly Industry Buzz movie column for San Francisco Chronicle.
- Currently write feature stories on movies, television, theater, architecture and design for Los Angeles Times, New York Times, L.A. Weekly, Discover Magazine and University of Wisconsin Alumni Magazine. Other outlets include New York Daily News, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Print Magazine, I.D. Magazine, American Cinematographer, Architectural Design, RotoWorld Magazine and Los Angeles: The Magazine
- Otis College of Art and Design Guest lecturer August 2009 on subject of Web Journalism
- Contributing Editor, Brown Alumn Magazine
- Contributed a film article to 2007 Oxford University Press anthology.
- Wrote feature articles about the Internet for Entertainment Weekly.
- Contributed celebrity items for year-end issue of People magazine.
- Produced entertainment trend stories for Emmy magazine.
- Covered entertainment, design and lifestyle beats for Chicago Tribune.
- Created, wrote and edited monthly music section for Chicago Reader alternative weekly.
- Created, wrote and edited monthly music section for Chicago Reader alternative weekly.
- Member: Television Critics Association.
- Judge: 2005 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies "AltWeekly Award"
Managing
Editor, Tribune Media Services |
Zap2it.com |July, 1999 - July, 2000
- Directed editorial content for Zap2it.com. Within six months of joining operations, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and E! Online had singled out the site as an outstanding entertainment destination.
- 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.
- Edited all copy for style and accuracy.
- 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.
Producer,
Tribune Media Services' marketing website | April, 1999
Coordinated the focus, design,
editing and production of Tribune Media Service's marketing website. Earned
kudos from staff organizing a complex array of data products into an
easy-to-navigate interface.
Special
Sections Editor, Chicago Tribune | April 1996 - March 1997
Managed all facets of Tribune's
real estate special section published 12 times a year. Assigned and edited
stories produced by Tribune staffers and freelancers, wrote captions and
headlines, handled page layout and supervised pagination under tight
deadlines.
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.
Tribune free-lance article cited as one of the "Ten Best Lifestyle Features"
of the year, out of 1,600 entries, in the 1996
University of Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards.
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:
Articles archived online at www.hughhart.com/stories
REFERENCES:
Excellent references available
upon request