Mike Brunker
Retired newsman, formerly with msnbc.com, NBC News, Las Vegas Review-Journal, San Francisco Examiner, etc., available for select free-lance writing and editing projects. And anything to do with horse racing!
- Role
- Contract Editor for News-enterprise at Nbc News
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mike Brunker
Career news pro with extensive online experience and newspapers in my blood. I\'ve filled virtually every editorial role, beginning as a newspaper copy editor and working my way up to be a senior editor at leading news websites, overseeing a dozen reporters and editors. Along the way, I’ve reported and written everything from breaking news to complex investigative stories, assigned and edited quick hits and mega projects for print and the web and managed newspaper front pages and websites. I’ve also developed data visualization skills using Tableau software. Career highlights include:* Relaunched @breakingnews, a 24/7 Twitter-based news service, and Breakingnews.com in 2010 after their acquisition by MSNBC.com; as lead editor, organized round-the-clock staffing, established workflow procedures and set reporting standards.* Steered Rising from Ruin, an innovative yearlong special report that traced the rebuilding of two Mississippi towns devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The report was recognized for its “outstanding journalism and comprehensive use of technology” by the National Press Club in 2006.* Led a two-man “backpack” reporting team in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Blogged gripping and heart-wrenching stories of survival and efforts to reconstruct the devastated region.* Demonstrated creativity, innovation and project coordination skills working in the early days of online news reporting. Among other things, I served as editor of the influential Red Tape Chronicles privacy and technology blog and helped shape the online presentation of a story about heiress Huguette Clark - the most-read article ever on MSNBC.com, with 200 million-plus page views.
Experience
Contract Editor for News-enterprise
Jul 2015 — Present
Oversee story assignment, editing and publication of original domestic news stories for NBCNews.com and also contribute reporting. Prior to Feb. 1, 2016, served as contract editor for the site\'s business section.
Education
San Francisco State University
BA
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