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    Jonah Owen Lamb

    Jonah Owen Lamb
    415-302-7416
    jol214@nyu.edu
    My weblog



    EXPERIENCE
    Staff Writer, Salt Lake City Weekly

    Editorial Intern, The Point Reyes Light, Point Reyes Station, CA, Summer 2006

    Co-author, Islands of San Francisco Bay

    Freelance Writer: The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The Epoch Times New York City, Washington Square News (NYU campus daily), The Marin Scope (Marin County, Calif. community weekly) January 2005-present.

    Editorial Intern, The Commonwealth magazine, San Francisco, March-June 2004. The Commonwealth Club of California is the oldest and largest public affairs forum in the country. Assisted editorial staff in fact checking, editing and layout. Transcribed speeches, wrote sidebars and researched for the magazine.

    Freelance Writer: Concrete (University of East Anglia weekly), Norwich, England, January-May 2003

    Editor, The Student Insurgent, Eugene, OR, September 2001-Aug 2003
    The University of Oregon independent student newspaper. Wrote one to two stories each issue and oversaw all aspects of the newspaper, from assigning and editing articles to layout and distribution.

    Editor, Staff Writer, The Oakleaf (Santa Rosa Junior College weekly), Santa Rosa, CA, September 1999-May 2001. Oversaw all aspects of production.


    EDUCATION
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    M.A. in Journalism (newspaper concentration), expected December 2006

    University of Oregon
    B.A. in History, August 2003

    SKILLS
    Proficient in Spanish
    Extensive knowledge of Lexis-Nexis, PageMaker, Indesign, Digital and Film Photography, Copy Editing



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