GEORGE KELLY is the online coordinator at Bay Area News Group-East Bay's Contra Costa Times,
a 160,000-circulation newspaper that covers San Francisco's East Bay.
His responsibilities include offering best-practices advice on
blogging; moderating site forums, polls and reader-generated content;
and collating the Sunday paper's "online extras" section. A native of
Washington, D.C., Kelly graduated with a bachelor's in mass
communications from Bowie State University. His first newspaper job was
a Chips Quinn Scholar internship at the Oakland Tribune, which led to a schools and general assignment reporting stints with the Tri-Valley Herald
in Pleasanton. He returned to Pleasanton two years later to work on ANG
Newspapers' universal copy desk as an editor and paginator before
leaving for online copy-editor shifts at thestandard.com and salon.com. He joined the Times
in 2001 as a copy editor and paginator and most recently worked as the
paper's first morning online reporter. He enjoys social media,
songwriting and yearly jaunts to Austin, Texas, for South by
Southwest's Interactive Festival.
You're more than welcome to look in on the lectures I'll be attending the rest of the week.
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