Karen Fioretti

Lead multi-newspaper group, as well as robust web and sheetfed printing operations. Includes supervision of business operations, revenue generation, content and design, mailroom and circulation, digital marketing sales, and personnel management.

Lead team in content development, pagination/design, revenue generation, business operations, circulation, technology, personnel management and community relations. Also provide digital marketing services to customers, including strategy development, messaging and campaign execution.

Returned struggling weekly newspaper to profitability and stature within the community with strong focus on content development and customer service. Included writing, editing and photography, pagination/design and personnel management.

Senior management team member responsible for newspaper production, IT web/mobile and facilities management for daily newspaper, three weeklies and $1.4 million annual in commercial print. Launched new website and mobile app, as well as sites for sister publications. Developed and executed RFP process for new advertising and circulation systems and managed installation, on time and under budget. Implemented sustainability program that reduced company's impact on the environment while saving $250,000 per year.

Hired as Pagination/Prepress manager supervising production of three-edition daily city newspaper, converting the operation from paste-up to fully electronic pagination. Promoted to Prepress Systems Manager, adding production of a second daily newspaper and eight weekly publications to my purview. Promoted to Production Systems Manager, adding on oversight of data entry, layout, creative services, classified pagination and prepress departments across two facilities, while serving as Assistant IT Administrator.

Started as Editor of a multi-award winning weekly community newspaper, including hiring and coaching of early-career journalists, In addition to producing content personally, worked closely with inexperienced editorial staff on story development, research, photography and writing. My skills in page layout earned a promotion to Regional Prepress Manager/Production Editor, designing and supervising a central pagination desk for 18 weekly newspapers.