Personal History

RESUME

Dan Weisman

20108B Elm Lane

Escondido, Ca. 92029

760-480-0963

760-443-9122

Dweisman2002@yahoo.com

92067freepress.com

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Editor, writer, columnist, online journalist.

Experience

Editor

RANCHO SANTA FE RECORD AND CARMEL VALLEY LEADER, DEL

MAR TIMES, SOLANA BEACH SUN: Responsible for editorial

comment and content. Writing and editing local news as

well as writing newspaper editorial, photography and

columns as necessary. Also, supervising and assigning

reporters, photographers, paginators, and freelancers.

EAST COUNTY CALIFORNIAN. El Cajon. Totally re-built

weekly newspaper, providing full, hands-on editorial

direction including all aspects of production. Writing

and editing included in the mix.

BOGALUSA (LA.) DAILY NEWS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. Edited

copy. Wrote columns and articles. Instructed staff on

writing, layouts and page design in city near New

Orleans

Reporter-Writer-Columnist

TODAYS LOCAL NEWS: Daily columnist and some other

writing for 75,000 circulation daily in North County

San Diego covering communities of Escondido, San

Marcos, Vista, Oceanside, and Carlsbad.

CITY NEWS SERVICE. San Diego. covering police and fire

for Southern California wire service.

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE. North County. Covering

communities of Fallbrook and Valley Center on a

contract basis.

NORTH COUNTY TIMES. Escondido. Agriculture and general

assignments for 93,000 circulation daily in North San

Diego and Southwest Riverside counties. Daily, special

assignments and regional reporting. Columns and

television-related columns. California Farm Bureau

farm writer of the year.

ELK GROVE-LAGUNA NEIGHBORS, SACRAMENTO BEE. REPORTER.

Community section of Bee. Features, columns, general

news, police, features, community news. Also interim

editing.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Baton Rouge. REPORTER.

Louisiana politics. Features and rewrites.

ALBUQUERQUE (N.M.) JOURNAL. REPORTER. General

assignments with emphasis on spot and hard news,

features, investigative work and periodic assignments

at federal court and business desk as well as media

monitoring.

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, Little Rock. REPORTER. General

assignment. Special emphasis on investigative

reporting. Ground-breaking high impact medical

investigations in Ozark Mountains. Also, assigned to

shadow President Clinton during gubernatorial days.

Features, hard and spot news, weekly column.

CLEAR LAKE (TX.) DAILY CITIZEN. REPORTER. Entry level

general assignments and layouts. Small daily near

Houston

Investigator, Researcher, misc.

FREEMAN, SULLIVAN & CO., San Francisco. FIELD

AUDITOR. Field market research nationwide. Involved

extensive travel, interviewing, field reports.

WEST INVESTIGATIONS. Owner-operator. Surveillance

investigations. Federal surveillance expert licensed

in New Orleans.

TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans. ASSOCIATE CURATOR

HOGAN JAZZ ARCHIVES. Transcription, recording,

researching and editing oral history. Processed sound

materials. Archives management, public relations.

Writing and editing jazz history.

INFORMATION EXCHANGE SERVICES. New Orleans. CLAIMS

INVESTIGATOR. Insurance claims and related

investigations with emphasis on video surveillance

throughout Gulf Coast and South.

Education

MASTER OF ARTS - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: U.S.

history with emphasis on cultural and political

research.

BACHELOR OF ARTS - RICE UNIVERSITY. Houston: Honors in

history, English and political science.

High School Diploma - Horace Mann School, Riverdale,

N.Y.