Rob Curley

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Rob Curley is currently the Vice President of Product Development for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. Curley was brought on to the WPNI staff on October 2, 2006.[1]

Curley has been distinguished for his work in hyperlocal convergence journalism. He maintains a personal website, resume and blog.

[edit] Naples Daily News

Prior to working at the Washington Post, Rob Curley was the Director of New Media/Convergence of the Naples Daily News between 2005 and 2006.

With his team of Eric Moritz (programmer), Levi Chronister (site manager), and Kori Rumore (designer), they redesigned the award winning bonitanews.com.

Under Rob Curley's leadership and the hard work of Ellyn Angelotti (online sports editor), Bonitanews.com picked up a NAA Digital Edge award for "Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling" in February, 2006 for it's high school sports coverage.[2]

The Naples Daily News' main site, naplesnews.com was relaunched in January, 2006 with much of the same team, Eric Moritz (programmer), Levi Chronister (site manager), and Todd Soligo (designer).

Under Rob Curley's leadership, naplesnews.com received an Editor & Publisher Eppy Award for "Best Internet News Service (fewer than one million unique visitors per month) in 2006". [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ducq, Alice (2006). "Converged-Media Visionary Rob Curley Joins Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive" (Press Release). Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive. Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
  2. ^ "Nominated for three Digital Edge awards in the Newspaper Association of America contest, BonitaNews.com brings home the gold" (Press Release). Naples Daily News (2006). Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
  3. ^ "naplesnews.com Awards and Honors" (Press Release). Naples Daily News (2006). Retrieved on 2008-01-23.

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