Editor  Skills / Layout Designs

Roberta is skilled with web news, uploading, editing, troubleshooting, SEO, in addition to story assignment, managing writers, budgeting stories and art. In print media, she has the same experience, but also is skilled with dummying pages, and desktop publishing. Experienced with QuarkXPress, In Design, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Microsoft Word Pro. Her Layouts sparkle with strong stories, creative headlines, and eye-catching art. She is a skilled copy editor with attention to detail and fact checking and strong news judgment. Mastery of AP Style, and Strunk and White grammar rules.

Web News Site	Print Publications
News Ink -  Community web news site.  Went out of business in 2008.	1. Tabloid -- designed the publication template and provided content.  RB was editor and writer for News Ink.
CNS News - California correspondent.	2. Tabloid with Broadsheet look. Examples of pages from broadsheet newspapers that dummied and in some cases did the pagination. She was the editor, leader writer, and assigned stories to other writers and determined which stories went on the front page.
Editor - WJFA Web site containing news stories focused on fraud. RB writes and edits other's stories.  She does the layout and SEO.	3. Special section in newspaper. Roberta managed the project as its editor, design layout, and wrote a few of the stories. This was a 32-page magazine-size edition inserted in the newspaper. One of the newspaper's biggest selling editions.
	4. Broadsheet -- Examples of pages from broadsheet newspapers that RB dummied and in some cases did the pagination.
	5. Full Page Special design of an event where the layout and photographs were designed in theme with the issue.
	6. Events Section -- designed the layout and did all the art of this page for News Ink, and Knight Times to increase readership / usage in the newspaper.

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