David E. Carlson
Box 118400
Gainesville, Fla. 32611
352-846-0171 (office)
352-846-0172 (fax)
E-mail: dave (at) carlsonfamily.net


Employment History

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     University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, Department of Journalism, Weimer Hall, Gainesville, Fla. 32611. Supervisors: Dr. John Wright, interim dean; Dr. William McKeen, department chair. August, 1993-present.
Title, Duties:
     Director, Interactive Media Lab and James M. Cox, Jr. Foundation/The Palm Beach Post Professor in New Media Journalism. After a nine-month appointment as Freedom Forum Journalist in Residence, Carlson was hired in 1994 to teach graduate and undergraduate courses about interactive newspaper technologies and to found and direct the college’s Interactive Media Lab. Among his accomplishments have been launching the first journalism site anywhere on the World Wide Web in October 1993 and helping to organize a 250-person conference entitled "The Electronic Newspaper, 1994." He also has developed interfaces and content for various WWW and BBS-based interactive newspaper products operated by the Interactive Media Lab. Among them was Sun.ONE, launched in March 1995 in cooperation with The New York Times Co. and The Gainesville Sun. He is an expert on the history and development of videotex, teletext and interactive newspaper products. This expertise has led to more than 100 speaking engagements around the world.

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     The New York Times Regional Media Group, Tampa, Fla. Supervisor: Jeff Moriarty, vice president.. Summer 2007
Title, Duties:
     Consultant. Develop new media strategies for daily newspapers

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     The Gainesville Sun, Box 147147, Gainesville, FL 32601. Supervisor: Jim Osteen, editor. Summer 2005-present
Title, Duties:
     Copy editor: Edit local and wire news stories, write headlines and perform other duties as assigned.

Firm:
    St. Petersburg Times, 490 First Ave. S., St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Supervisor: Ronald DuPont, Jr., Web publisher. Summer 2000
Title, Duties:
    Consultant/intern in the Web Publishing Department. Carlson developed a wireless version of The Times for handheld computers using the AvantGo platform. He also worked as a Web producer and did research on the potential for launching various new Web sites.

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     The Gainesville Sun, Box 147147, Gainesville, FL 32601. Supervisor: Bill Dean, entertainment editor. May 1999-present
Title, Duties:
     Dining critic. Create bi-weekly reviews of Florida restaurants and write occasional food and wine features.

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     American Journalism Review, University of Maryland, 1117 Journalism Building, College Park, MD 20742-7111. Supervisor: Rem Rieder, editor and senior vice president. 1999-2000.
Title, Duties:
     Magazine columnist, "The World of New Media."

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     International Newspaper Marketing Association, 10300 North Central Expressway, Suite 467, Dallas, TX 75231. Supervisor: Dawn McMullan, editor, IDEAS Magazine. May 1998-May 1999.
Title, Duties:
     New media columnist for IDEAS Magazine, the journal of the International Newspaper Marketing Association.

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     Prodigy Services Co., 445 Hamilton Ave., White Plains, N.Y. 10194. Supervisor: Alfred B. Lowy, director of editorial product development. 1994-1996.
Title, Duties:
     Consultant to the nation’s then largest on-line service with over 2 million members. Carlson was recruited to provide advice on Prodigy’s plan to implement on-line newspaper products and to review the news offerings of Prodigy, America Online, CompuServe and other competitors.

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     The Albuquerque Tribune, P.O. Drawer T, Albuquerque, N.M. 87103. Scripps Howard, Inc. 40,000 p.m. Supervisor: Tim Gallagher, editor. February 1987 to August 1993.
Title, Duties:
     Electronic Trib editor. Full responsibility for designing, developing, launching and operating The Electronic Trib, a computerized news service for readers of The Albuquerque Tribune. The system was the first multi-line PC-based electronic news service in the world operated by a newspaper. Carlson also assisted reporters in computer-aided projects, one of which led to a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Among other hats he wore at The Tribune: Design editor, wire editor, slot person, assistant city editor and food and wine critic, doing weekly reviews of area restaurants and columns about wines and cooking.

Firm:
     Kingman (Mohave) Daily Miner, P.O. Box 3909, Kingman, Ariz. 86402. Western Newspapers, Inc., 7,200 p.m. Supervisor: Dick Larson, publisher. July 1985 to January 1987.
Title, Duties:
      Managing editor, editor. This position involved complete charge of a staff of 12 and total control of the news and editorial pages of a 7,200 circulation afternoon daily. Carlson hired, fired, recruited, assigned, budgeted, planned, executed, coordinated, designed, edited, reviewed, evaluated and wrote columns and editorials. He was second in command in the building and filled the publisher’s shoes in his absence. He also was active in community affairs, serving on the board of directors of Mohave Community College and in various other civic capacities compatible with the position. He was chair of the newspaper group’s Editorial Committee, a body of editors and publishers that set ethical standards and editorial policies for the entire group.

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     The Gallup Independent, 103 W. Aztec Ave., Gallup, N.M. 87301. Family owned, 13,000 p.m. Supervisor: D. Reed Eckhardt, managing editor. January 1983 to July 1985.
Title, Duties:
     Energy-environmental reporter and chief of the newspaper’s Eastern Bureau. Carlson was responsible for extensive coverage in words and pictures of almost every environmental issue in the Southwest including coal mining on federal land, the uranium industry, air- and water-quality issues, land use, Indian affairs, state and federal agencies, economics, business, and controversies surrounding nuclear and coal power plants. This was an unsupervised, self-starter job involving considerable travel.

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     Chronicle-Tribune, 610 S. Adams St., Marion, Ind. 46952. Gannett, 28,000 a.m. Supervisor: W. Alan Miller, executive editor. December 1973 to November 1981.
Title, Duties:
     State editor, reporter-photographer. Carlson began in 1973 as a reporter-photographer and worked his way through every beat on the paper. In 1977, he was moved to the state desk as a sort of roving reporter covering the Indiana General Assembly and major news events in a nine-county circulation area.
     Carlson was named state editor supervising 14 full and part-time staff in July 1979. During this period, he also was director of the Teaching Newspapers Program at the newspaper for Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Honors and Awards




Team Awards

I worked on team projects for which The Albuquerque Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1993, and for which the Chronicle-Tribune was four times named Indiana’s best daily newspaper regardless of circulation, Best of Gannett, 1977, and winner of two Frank Tripp Memorial Awards.