David Squires

14630 Green Birch Drive, Pineville, NC 28134

c: 708-955-4590
h: 704-900-2107
w: 704358-5136
e: dsquires80@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MISSION
Seeking to use decades of experience as a print, magazine and
digital journalist, editor, manager, high school English teacher
and adjunct journalism professor to expand my teaching
portfolio and gain a full-time journalism or lecturer/professor
position with a major university.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Jun 1992-Present

Board Member/Instructor, Sports Journalism Institute, University of

Missouri (formerly at The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL
Screened, selected SJI participants; journalism lecturer

Jan 2004-Aug 2012

Adjunct Professor of English/and or Journalism

- English Composition I & II at Thomas Nelson Community College
- News Writing & Reporting at Christopher Newport University
- Newsroom Management, Online Journalism and Multicultural
Reporting at Hampton University, 20042008

Jan 2011-Aug 2012

School, Norfolk

6th Grade English Teacher, Lafayette-Winona Middle

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
Oct 2013-Present

Universal Editor/Digital Specialist, McClatchy Publishing

Center/Charlotte Observer
Edit news and sports stories, write headlines and captions, post stories
and photos to news and sports website.

May 2015-Present

Managing Editor, NU Tribe magazine, a digital start-up publication

Develop, assign and edit news, lifestyle and entertainment stories; help
supervise editing team via email and Google applications; created NU
Tribe style and writing guide.

Aug 2012-Nov 2013 Assistant Managing Editor, Sportingnews.com, Charlotte

Produced, edited and published iPad edition of The Sporting News;
managed three-person team; developed tablet content and production
strategy.

Mar 2004-Aug 2012 The Daily Press, Hampton Roads VA (Deputy Sports Editor, Urban
Affairs Specialist, Columnist/Blogger
As Deputy Sports Editor, planned college and high school sports
coverage, wrote weekly sports column, managed team of sports writers,
freelancers and interns and edited daily news report for print and online.
As Urban Affairs Specialist, created strategy and stories for urban affairs
coverage and maintained urban affairs website page. As Columnist and
Blogger, wrote weekly urban affairs column and blog about regional
urban issues; advised local reporters and editors on story ideas.
Jul 2009-Mar 2010

Creator, producer and host, The Last Word For Now YouTube
news show Developed weekly interest topics, interviewed local and
national news subjects, including Michael Vick.

Jan 200-Feb 2004

Editor, Tribune Interactive BlackVoices.com/Black Voices Quarterly

Magazine, Chicago
Supervised staff of 10 writers and producers and coordinated more than
50 freelance writers and editors, developed and managed coverage for
national website covering multicultural lifestyles, managed magazine
covering the black college community, managed newspaper-inserted
mini-magazine covering travel and culture.

Apr 1999-Jan 2001

Web Editor/Breaking News, Detroit Free Press

Managed and coordinated online breaking news coverage across all
news departments, supervised coverage in Wayne County suburbs as
Western Wayne Editor and introduced daily story budget format still
used by the Free Press.

Nov 1996-Apr 1999 News Editor, The Macon (GA) Telegraph

Jan 1991-Sep 1996

Deputy Metro Editor, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Jan 1987-Jan 1991

Weekend City Editor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Jul 1985-Jan 1987

Foreign Desk Copy Editor, The New York Times

Jun 1983-Jun 1985

Assistant Editor, Newsday, Long Island, NY

Aug 1981-Jun 1983

Sports Writer, St. Petersburg (FL) Times

EDUCATION
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Major - Journalism and Psychology

M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Major Journalism, concentration Newspaper Management

Old Dominion University Career Switcher Program

For K-12 educators

References

Garry D. Howard
Director, Corporate Initiatives, American City Business Journals,
Charlotte
ghoward@bizjournalism.com - 414-550-1828
Glenn Proctor
Pulitzer Prize winner, Akron Beacon Journal
(Retired) Executive Editor/Vice President, Richmond (VA) TimesDispatch
Owner, REDDjobb LLC (Leadership, Training and Coaching),
Charlotte
glenn@reddjobb.com - 804-678-8570
Mark Russell
Managing Editor, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Mark.russell@commercialappeal.com - 901-288-4509
Sandy Bailey Rosenbush
News Editor, ESPN
Sandra.w.rosenbush@espn.com - 347-613-2578
Kelvin Hart
Former Sports Team Leader, McClatchy Publishing Center,
Charlotte
Kelvinhart61@gmail.com - 704-236-6156
Barry Cooper
Founder, former CEO, Black Voices.com
barrycoop@gmail.com - 708-261-1181