Resume
Joel Reese
4316 N Albany Avenue, #1
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 931-4948
e-mail: joelcreese@gmail.com
Work Experience
1995 – present, currently full-time Freelance Writer; Chicago, IL
• Wrote articles published in Spin, Details, Texas Monthly, Chicago, Field-Tested Books, Unlimited, CS, Montanan, Go, Marine Watch, Vital, playboy.com, and deadspin.com
• “Down and Out,” story of former Dallas Cowboy Golden Richards, published in December 1995 issue of Texas Monthly and reprinted in The Best American Sports Writing of 1996
2004 - 2007 Time Out Chicago magazine; Chicago, IL
Editor/Features Editor/Senior Editor
• Responsible for art, web, and editorial content
• Managed a staff of 50 employees
• Oversaw 16 of magazine’s top 25 sellers
• Increased web traffic by 77 percent
• Received 2007 National Magazine Award nomination for magazine’s Dive Bars issue
• Concepted cover packages with staff, and wrote several cover stories
• Conceived and directed magazine’s successful “Chicago’s Funniest Person” contest
1999 - 2000 www.yack.com
Freelance Sports Columnist
• Wrote weekly baseball, basketball, and football columns for general-interest website
1997 - 2004 Daily Herald newspaper; Arlington Heights, IL
Features Writer
• Wrote features articles, front-page news stories, weekly romance and fashion columns, and movie and concert reviews
1996 – 1997 Chicago Lawyer magazine; Chicago, IL
Features Writer
• Covered courts and wrote features stories for award-winning legal publication
1994 – 1996 Point Reyes Light newspaper; Point Reyes Station, CA
Reporter, Photographer, Web Editor
• Wrote stories and took pictures for Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper. Developed and maintained paper’s award-winning website.
1993 – 1994 Missoula Independent newspaper; Missoula, MT
Assistant Features Editor, Reporter
• Wrote and edited for weekly paper while a full-time graduate student
1992 Gallery 37; Chicago, IL
Supervisor
• Taught writing to Chicago high-school students for federally funded program
Honors
• 2007 National Magazine Award nomination for Time Out Chicago’s Dive Bar issue, July 19–25, 2007
• 2004 Peter Lisagor Award for Public Service for Daily Herald’s Suburban Mosaic, a series onissues facing ethnic groups within Chicago’s suburbs. The series also won the National Community Leadership Award from the Inland Press Association.
• 2004 National Media Award from National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation for Daily Herald story “Beyond the Pale,” about portrayal of albinism in popular culture
• First place in 2003 Illinois AP Enterprise Reporting category as one of lead writers in Daily Herald series on 1993 Palatine Brown’s Chicken murders, “44 Minutes in January”
• “Wildfire,” lead story of major forest fire in October 5, 1995, Point Reyes Light, named Best News Story by Weekly Newspaper by Peninsula Press Club and Best Spot News Coverage by Weekly Newspaper by California Press Association
• Received David Rorvik Award for Writing, given to three students annually at University of Montana, 1994
• Received Dorothy Rochon Powers Scholarship, highest academic award given by University of Montana Journalism School’s graduate department, 1993
Education
• Master of Arts, School of Journalism—University of Montana; Missoula, Montana
• Bachelor of Arts, English—Lawrence University; Appleton, Wisconsin