Dylan Smith

About

Dylan Smith is the Editor and Publisher of TucsonSentinel.com, a nonprofit local independent online news organization. He was the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION Publishers), organizing a group of publishers of about 350 local news websites across the country. He's the president of the Arizona Press Club, and a member of the national Professional Standards and Ethics Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is a longtime member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and American Copy Editors Society, as well as a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Native American Journalists Association, and an active member within the Institute for Nonprofit News. He's won numerous state and national awards and accolades for breaking news and investigative journalism, including the Sledgehammer Award from the Arizona Press Club, and was tapped as a Brechner Reporting Fellow at the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida, for his work pursuing in-depth journalism about government secrecy. An experienced designer and programmer, he served as an Invited Expert on the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Working Group, helping to write the updated specification for the language that runs the Internet. Prior to founding the Sentinel, he was the Online Editor for the Tucson Citizen, until the newspaper was shut down. He was the Executive Director of The Quintessential Stage, a nonprofit theatre company, and Editor and Publisher of ¿K? Magazine, an arts and culture monthly, in the 1990s. He comes from a long line of journalists; his great-grandfather began work as a reporter fresh from high school in 1900. His family operated the Wheaton (Ill.) Daily Journal for over 50 years. His grandfather was also an Editor and Publisher, his grandmother a copyeditor and typesetter, and his parents published an alternative newspaper in the 1960s. Despite his long heritage in print journalism, he's a firm believer in the power of the Internet to inform and inspire like no other medium for reporting. Specialties: web design & development, specializing in news & content-heavy projects: php, mysql, jquery, css, html5, seo, alphabet soup chef extraordinaire. reporting & editing: breaking news, investigative reporting, Internet news presentation. managment: newsroom & nonprofit management, fundraising, marketing.