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Peter
Erikson
Copy editor
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Mill Valley (California) United States (California)
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About Me
Experienced copy editor with strong headline-writing, design, wire and proofreading skills.
Ensure copy is factually, grammatically, mathematically and structurally sound is accompanied by a strong headline;
Specialize in authoring style guides and culling the wire services;
Knowledgeable about social media, content management systems and HTML;
Sharpening digital news-gathering and design skills as scholarship student at San Francisco State University;
Hope to work as copy editor or designer for online news organization such as Yahoo Front Page.
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Experiences
Copy editor
Bay Area News Group
Since November 2010
Edit stories and write headlines for multiple editions of San Jose Mercury News.
Copy editor
The Press-Enterprise
April 2008 to October 2009
Managed copy desk on weekends with busiest workload and fewest resources. Put news pages to bed early on Fridays so desk could get a jump on prep sports copy; combined portions of multiple wire-service reports into front-page stories.
Education
BA
San Francisco State University
January 2011 to May 2012
Received Otto J. Bos Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Journalism, the largest award given by the department.
Skills
Other
Designing for Web and print;
Editing sports and business copy;
Writing headlines;
Culling wire content
Using social media