Kenneth Broder

experience
EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR at the Los Angeles Times, supervised suburban design and copy desk editors, while overseeing photo and art departments
WEB EDITOR and WRITER for AllGov.com
COPY DESK SUPERVISOR at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner
PAGE DESIGNER for web & print
URBAN REPORTER & SPORTS COLUMNIST
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
NEWSROOM TECH SUPPORT

ALLGOV.COM

MANAGING EDITOR. Built the backend of AllGov's California edition, agency by agency, with a team of free-lance writers. Was featured writer after launch in June 2012. Wrote, edited and uploaded material, and maintained the website. Worked 1,296 consecutive days until the publisher ended live updates.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

DESIGN EDITOR. Responsible for design of daily news pages. Duties regularly included booking of the A-section in coordination with the editorial production editor, the foreign, national, metro and business desks and photo and graphics departments. Also posted to the Times website using Assembler.

NIGHT EDITOR for the California section design desk. Helped facilitate coordination with the zone editions as well as photo, graphics, copy desk and city desk. Regularly designed section pages. Occasionally filled in as evening exec on the A1 desk.

EDITORIAL CCI TEAM teacher and troubleshooter during rollout of CCI Europe computer system.

EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR for the Valley and Ventura County editions. Managed 22 news and copy editors, and oversaw the photo staff and art department. Chaired morning and evening news meetings, reviewed all page design and handled production needs. Regularly worked downtown as night executive news editor and served as liaison between Valley/Ventura and downtown on issues and projects, including pagination and redesign.

NEWS EDITOR for startup of the Ventura County edition. Helped establish standards and procedures for the edition and guided it through its eventual split into East and West editions. Designed daily cover and inside news pages. In 1995, became news editor for the Valley edition.

COPY EDITOR on Metro desk.

LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER

COPY EDITOR, SLOT and NEWS EDITOR. Primarily oversaw copy desk for afternoon edition and regularly supervised desk of up to seven editors for morning edition.

SPORTS COLUMNIST. Wrote a weekly column about the "new" statistics-driven approach to baseball analysis.

PASADENA STAR-NEWS

REPORTER and COPY EDITOR. Also stints as Page 1 news editor, wire editor and slot. Duties included page makeup on the nation's first full-pagination system (Information International Inc. -- III).

COAST MEDIA NEWS

STAFF WRITER for weeklies covering southwest Los Angeles County.

VICTOR VALLEY DAILY PRESS

STAFF WRITER for Freedom Newspaper daily in Victorville, California.

contact info
1635 Wagner St.
Pasadena, Calif. 91106
626-568-1748
kenbroder@gmail.com

the editor's disclaimer

technical skills
CCI superuser
programmer using Visual Basic, Php, Perl, Javascript, Xhtml and Css
experience with Dreamweaver, WordPress, Apache server, MySql, Excel and Access
creator of an interactive website built around a computer-driven fantasy baseball league

education
Michigan State University, 1972. BA political science
Indiana University, 1975-77. Postgraduate work in journalism
USC and UCLA. 1983-85. Computer programming classes