136-A Chestnut Crossing Drive
Newark, DE 19713
302-731-3045
Stephen
Sobek
OBJECTIVE:
To
bridge the gap between traditional ways of delivering information and new,
emerging technologies.
QUALIFICATIONS
For nearly eight years, I have been a reporter – first for
The Associated Press and now for The News Journal, a Gannett newspaper in
Wilmington, Del. My focus is to deliver information in a concise and effective manner. I can write news stories, publish them to the Internet and
design graphics.
AWARDS
2000
Second
place, Education writing, Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press
Association awards, for the five-part series “Neighborhood
Schools: Solution or Illusion?” Published in Dec. 2000.
1998 First place, General
News writing, Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association awards,
for “Finally, A
Mother’s Love,” a look at the rising number of adoptions of
Chinese baby girls in Delaware and how it affected one woman’s life.
EDUCATION
1996 Bachelor of Arts in
Journalism, University of Maryland at College Park.
EMPLOYMENT
1998-now Staff Reporter, The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. Duties include
developing and maintaining working relationships with sources in three school
districts, and developing and writing strong front-page stories with
interesting photos and graphics.
1995-1998 Staff Reporter, The Associated Press (Baltimore, Buffalo, and Omaha,
Neb.). Duties included generating, reporting and writing news stories for
publication or broadcast and editing stories for publication or broadcast.
1996 Intern Reporter, The Washington
Post. Wrote one to two stories per week – mostly features – for The
Post’s Maryland Weekly section.
1995 Editorial Intern, American
Journalism Review, a national magazine for journalists.
1994
Reporter,
Capital News Service, a student-staffed wire service covering Maryland issues
for 16 daily newspapers, including The Washington Post, The (Baltimore) Sun,
and The Washington Times.
1993-1994
Editorial
intern for Outlook, a weekly newspaper for faculty and staff at the University
of Maryland at College Park.
ON THE WEB
You can find examples of my work at SteveSobek.Net.