Brian Rokos 11330 Parkdale Drive, Riverside CA 92505 / 949-842-1699 bjrokos@sbcglobal.net @brokos

Position sought Reporter, writer, editor Experience Public safety (police/courts/fire) reporter for The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., January 2012 to present. Duties include writing issue stories and stories derived from public records, live blogging and tweeting from trials, contributing to Crime Blotter blog, appearing on weekly Crime Blotter video show for newspaper website, engaging readers using social media including Twitter and Facebook, shooting photos and video as needed. City Hall reporter for cities of San Bernardino, Corona, Norco, Lake Elsinore, for The Press-Enterprise, September 2009 to January 2012. Duties included writing stories previewing likely City Council actions, behind-the-scenes stories using public records, writing about newsmakers. Frequently posted to Breaking News website from meetings and engaged readers using social media. Assistant metro editor, The Press-Enterprise, January 2008 to September 2009. Led a team of 12 metro reporters, helping them focus their stories, working with them on story ideas and doing initial edits on their stories. Copy editor, The Press-Enterprise, January 2008 to September 2009. Edited news, features and columns, and occasional sports stories. Later promoted to a management copy editor position to do first edits on metro stories. Assistant sports editor, copy editor, The Orange County Register, May 1999 to December 2005. Duties included coordinating coverage of major-college sports (USC, UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine) and motor sports. Also worked as copy editor in sports and news, typesetting pages on deadline, editing copy and writing headlines. Assistant sports editor, copy editor, The Cincinnati Post, January 1995 to May 1999. Duties included overseeing the night sports copy desk, making decisions on and directing coverage of breaking news. Was promoted to assistant sports editor from sports copy editor. Reporter, copy editor, News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), September 1988 to December 1994. Duties included layout and copy editing on sports desk, sports reporting. Awards Best headlines, Society of Professional Journalists, 2006Best sports section, California Newspaper Publishers Association, 1988