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Jon Donley - Editor
Floresville, TX, United States
Award-winning career journalist, media consultant, and full digital marketing specialist. Services range from writing to expert editing.
Overview
Longtime journalist and goatherd, soldier and grandfather of 21.
Services
Languages
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Certifications
- BA Communications/Journalism, double major History
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Iowa Press Association
- Texas Press Association
- Louisiana Press Association
Awards
- 2006 Knight Digital Media Award (first ever award to digital media)
- 1998 - 2008 - 16 awards in New Orleans Press Club.
Work experience
Founder/Senior Consultant
Jon Donley Media LLC
A private consulting firm specializing in:
- Commercial Writing
- Ghost Writing
- Full range of editing services, from business correspondence to company policy manuals
- Full range of public relation services, including publicity campaigns and damage remediation
- Expert in digital media marketing including web and social network development, search and social media advertising.
- Staff training and tutorials
- More than 30 years prior experience as professional journalist in various newspapers, serving in job posts from general assignments to beat reporter, news photographer, opinion writer and editor, special projects (including development of websites and tech liaison with newsroom, news editor, front page designer and editor and state editor and graphic editor at newspapers including:
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Mardi
San Antonio Express News
San Antonio News
San Angelo Standard Times
... and more.
Portfolio (2 selected works)
Healing Plants
Ana Nez Heatherley
Medicinal uses, scientific explanations, growing tips, and preparations for North American plants and herbs.
Medicinal uses, scientific explanations, growing tips, and preparations for North American plants and herbs.
A Violin for Miss Peggy
Jon Donley
Rufus Johnson was a man living with a hurt, in a small Texas frontier town where community made the difference between a joyful life and bitter emptiness. This Christian inspirational short story shows how a teacher's love and a little girl's anger broke through the pain to teach Rufus the True Song.
Rufus Johnson was a man living with a hurt, in a small Texas frontier town where community made the difference between a joyful life and bitter emptiness. This Christian inspirational short story shows how a teacher's love and a little girl's anger broke through the pain to teach Rufus the True Song.
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