JEORDAN LEGON
jeordan@jlegon.com

CHEVRON
Editor
April 2007 to Present
· Responsible for Chevron.com, the internet site of the seventh largest corporation in the world
· Launched site redesign in September, increasing traffic by 30 percent
· Manage producers, writers and artists to ensure the site is updated regularly and meets business needs
· Work with business units to set Internet standards for other sites in the company
· Collaborate with technical leads to identify potential issues and make improvements

YAHOO!
Product Manager / News
November 2005 to April 2007
· Responsible for news channel story selections and programming
· Supervised news desk
· Edited unique content, including "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone"
· Collaborated with other Yahoo! departments as needed
· Helped to troubleshoot tech issues
· Coordinated coverage with the Associated Press, Reuters,
  ABC News, CNN, Flickr and other partners

AOL / Time Warner
Senior Producer
May 2004 to November 2005
· Responsible for welcome screen story selections and programming
· Supervised weekend news coverage on the site
· Produced interactive polls, galleries, graphics, blogs, chats and forums
· Built video and audio packages for welcome screens
· Launched new initiatives working with other AOL departments
· Coordinated coverage with ABC News, CNN, New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and USA Today

CNN / Time Warner
Online Editor / Producer
September 2002 to April 2004
· Edited and produced content for the "War in Iraq" Special Section, which won an EPpy Award in 2004
· Managed and produced content for CNN.com's Technology and Science/Space sections
· Wrote, edited and reported for other sections of the site as needed
· Functioned as Assignment Editor during major breaking news
· Implemented content partnerships with publishers such as
  Business 2.0, Fortune, Popular Science and Time
· Worked with CNN-US and CNN en Español to produce
  broadcast-TV segments

MIAMI HERALD / Knight Ridder
Managing Editor / Online
September 1999 to September 2002
· Managed producers, reporters and editors who published the award-winning Internet editions of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald Digital
· Produced online coverage of the 2000 presidential election recount and the Elian Gonzalez case, which won The Herald a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2001
· Directed the launch and production of city guides Miami.com and Miami.com en Español
· Created and managed Miami operations budget

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS / Knight Ridder
Bureau Chief, San Francisco / Staff Writer / Producer
December 1994 to September 1999
· Produced local and national breaking news and in-depth features
· Published in newspapers across the country
· Covered U.S. Latinos as part of a group of reporters tackling diversity issues
· Reported on the technology boom in the Bay Area, the national rush toward naturalization, and the housing crunch squeezing Silicon Valley's poor
· Worked with top management to build a national news team that produced breaking news for Knight Ridder's 31 sites

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
General Assignment Reporter
September 1990 to November 1994
· Wrote breaking news stories and investigative reports
· Published a five-part series detailing the experiences of undocumented immigrants
· Covered the assassination of Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, the Rodney King trial, and the Los Angeles riots

Education

University of Southern California
School of Journalism
September 1988 to May 1992