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Kevin C. Shelly
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FREELANCE
EXPERIENCE
The
Derrydale Press published my biography of sporting artist Lynn Bogue Hunt
in September 2003. The first edition sold out. Field & Stream
magazine reviewed it as a must-have and listed it as one of the
most memorable outdoor books of the year. Upland Almanac called it
remarkable. Grays Sporting Journal deemed it excellent. It was also
positively reviewed in Shooting Sportsman, the Ruffed Grouse
Society and Quail Unlimited.
Magazine work anthologized in 1996 Simon & Schuster textbook on good
writing, Reading for Writers.
Short fiction published in New Jersey Outdoors fall 2001.
Published in The Wine Spectator, New Jersey Monthly, Atlantic City
Magazine, Field & Stream, Upland Almanac, Quail Unlimited Wildfowl,
, New Jersey Outdoors, Mid-Atlantic Sportsman, The Pennsylvania
Naturalist, , and others.
I review books for Upland Journal website
NEWSPAPER EXPERIENCE
-The Press of Atlantic
City, 1984, Pleasantville, New Jersey:
Current Circulation:
80,000 daily, 100,000 Sunday
Assistant city editor since 1994. Oversee 12 reporters and one
assistant. Run city desk, making decisions about assignments, photography
and graphics. Help coordinate prewritten weekend enterprise for local and
front sections. Assign all live weekend news coverage. Coordinate coverage
with sports and features departments. Assist coordination of daily
coverage by another 13 reporters in four bureaus. Assemble news budgets
three times daily. Handle staff scheduling. Coach reporting and writing.
Successfully reorganized struggling bureau. Responsible for public contact
by phone and walk-ins. Routinely fill in for city editor.
Environmental coordinator 1997 - 1998. Coordinated, assigned
or wrote environmental coverage while also overseeing general news
coverage.
Served on strategic planning committee and circulation committee.
Conducted merit reviews. Wrote editorials. Start-up electronic publishing
proposal selected for development from more than 100 competing business
proposals from throughout the paper's parent company.
Covered casino industry for two years immediately prior to
becoming an editor. Investigative and project experience, including expose
of Asian organized crime influence in casinos. Stories led to state
regulatory agency hearings and two firings. Stories on state tourism
agency ineptitude, mismanagement and fraud led to one resignation, one
reassignment and two firings.
Previously at The Press of Atlantic City, award-winning
municipal reporter for four years covering Atlantic City government and
politics. Investigative and project experience, including story which led
to firing of city finance director. Covered major corruption investigation
of city government over a two-year period from arrests to court.
Worked four years as general assignment and news feature writer at The
Press, writing frequently on the environment.
ADDITIONAL NEWSPAPER
EXPERIENCE
From 1984 to 1977:
Atlantic City-based correspondent for the Philadelphia Daily News,
covering crime, casinos and government along the New Jersey shore from
Cape May to Toms River, 1983.
Award-winning municipal reporter and columnist at the Ocean County
Observer, 1983-1984.
General
assignment reporter, restaurant reviewer and columnist for The Sun, an
Atlantic City-area twice weekly, 1980-1982.
Staff
writer for the weekly Olde City Digest in Philadelphia, 1979.
The editor of five zoned-weeklies in suburban Philadelphia, 1978.
Stringer for several weeklies in suburban Philadelphia counties, 1977.
AWARDS
Second place, 2001, Rutgers/CIT
business-writing award for magazine story on casino president addicted to
gambling.
First place for children's fiction, 1998, The Bayonne Writer's
Group.
First place for breaking news of F-16 crash, 1997, New Jersey Press
Association.
International first place winner for news writing about politicized
selection process for chief, 1990, the International Association of
Firefighters.
First place for news writing about politicized selection process for
chief, the Firefighter's Association of New Jersey, 1990.
First place for breaking news
of municipal corruption arrests, 1989, New Jersey Press Association.
First place for cancer news feature, 1984, the New Jersey Cancer
Society.
First place general interest columnist, 1983, New Jersey Press
Association.
First place for breaking news of sightseeing helicopter crash, 1983, The
Press Club of Atlantic City.
I have directed the work of reporters who have won numerous
journalism awards during the past 10 years
EDUCATION
and TRAINING
English literature major,
Davidson College, 1973-1977.
Seminar on merit reviews, 2004.
American Press Institute's weeklong metro and city editors seminar,
1999.
Seminar on dealing with difficult employees, 1998.
Seminar on editing and coaching by AP's national enterprise editor,
1996.
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
and TRAINING
Workshop on IBM PCs, Atlantic Community College, 1996.
Excel workshop, Atlantic Community College, 1996.
Seminar on coaching for managers, 1996.
Panelist on casinos at Investigative Reporters and Editors National
Conference, 1996.
Seminar on editing, 1995.
Seminar on merit reviews, 1995.
IRE computer-assisted reporting seminar, 1994.
Management seminar, 1994.
Seminar by Peter Drucker on business and the community, 1994.
Seminar on dealing with conflict, 1994.
IRE regional workshop on computer-assisted reporting, 1994.
PERSONAL
Married. One daughter.
Former board member of the National Headliner's Awards committee.
Screening judge for the Headliners competition.
Past-president of the Press Club of Atlantic City. Former member of the
Pen & Pencil Club in Philadelphia.
Former
member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Presenter at IRE national
conference on casino coverage.
Knowledgeable about food, wine and the outdoors.
Praise for my book:
Books & Comments: The Most Worthwhile books of 2003 in the Dec.
2003-Jan. 2004 Issue of Field & Stream
LYNN BOGUE HUNT: A SPORTING LIFE. By Kevin C. Shelly. Published by the
Derrydale Press. Hardcover. $60. www.derrydalepress.com
The paintings of Lynn Bogue Hunt depict a golden age of American sport
fishing and hunting. After a series of covers in 1919 for Sports Afield,
Hunt's work appeared on the cover of Field & Stream at least once every
year from 1924 through 1947. By 1951, he had created roughly 106 covers
for F&S, more than any other artist.
Kevin C. Shelly's biography of Hunt focuses mainly on the artist at work -
how his life as a sportsman interplayed with his life as a painter - and
doesn't delve unnecessarily into art criticism, letting the many color
plates and black-and-white illustrations speak for themselves. Hunt
painted it all: ducks, sailfish, upland birds, bears. If you or your
children are interested in outdoor art and painting, or you want to own a
collection of F&S history, this is a must-have book.
Scott Bowen, Senior Editor of Field & Stream:
"Shelly has done a remarkable job collecting snippets of the artist's days
afield... Clearly written and nicely organized, it is richly spiced with
Hunt's memorable work. In all, a fine testament to a talented
artist."-Matt Crawford, Tailgate Review"
Shelly has done a remarkable job collecting snippets of the artist's days
afield...Those who appreciate fine sporting art will find this book a
keeper, but those who cherish the American literary movement in the early
20th century will find plenty of reading, too... Clearly written and
nicely organized, it is richly spiced with Hunt's memorable work. In all,
a fine testament to a talented artist."-Matt Crawford, The Upland Almanac
Link to recent magazine piece of Kevin's in New Jersey Monthly:
http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/Aug04/boat.htm
Link to a recent piece of Kevin's in Field & Stream:
http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/0,13202,,00.html
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