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BOB CONDOR
bobcondor@aol.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Living Well Columnist
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (April 2004 to present)
Started new “Living Well” weekly column covering health, fitness, wellness and quality of life. Set reader interaction as a primary goal, generating hundreds of emails to targeted columns. Wrote three-part series on youth sports that attracted media coverage and widespread community reaction. Developed and wrote series of columns about the “Daylight Diet” with life-changing results for participants and hundreds of email responses. Wrote a two-part “Clear the Clutter” series that generated nearly 100 personal reader essays about how clutter affects health.
Blogger/e-book Author
www.AlternativeHealthJournal.com
www.DailyHealthBlog.com www.BartonPublishing.com
(May 2004 to present)
Contribute daily blog posts to two websites devoted to natural health and remedies. Cover news of the day, plus trends. Create edit plan to build traffic. Writing e-books on popular natural health topics to generate revenue.
Managing Editor/Writer
Affinity Publishing (June 2008 to present)
Developing and executing complete editorial strategy for custom publishing group. First project is prostate cancer magazine to be distributed to 50,000 recently diagnosed patients. Executive Editor KnowHuddle.com (Feb. 2008 to present) Content editor and writer for a new NFL website dedicated to “knowing who is in your NFL huddle.” During pre-launch phases, more then 150,000 visits and more than 8,500 unique users in the first full month of operation. Rollout of site planned for regular season 2008. Great material for radio segments. Involved in viral marketing of site and developing revenue streams.
Managing Editor
CampusU.com (June 2007 to May 2008)
Created content plan and business strategy for a website marketed to college students. Developed plan to move from beta to final product. Editorial lineup includes campus lifestyle, music, arts, relationships, nightlife, time management, academic pursuits, money, personal technology, sports and more. Interacted with developers of Facebook applications to increase traffic, plus establish policy that encourages viral networking about the site.
Columnist and Consulting Editor
CarePages.com (July 2006 to Feb. 2008)
Write weekly column and blog for a site that is leading content destination for caregivers with about 30 million page views per month. Developed “Male Perspective” column, helped develop range of health content and cover community building for the site.
Senior Editor and Writer
MSN.com (Oct. 2006 to March 2007)
Expand original health and fitness content on a site with huge traffic numbers and leading position as an Internet health site. Set new records each month. Developed stronger voice and relevance, writing to help show by example. Emphasis on “talking” to users rather than writing.
Editor
Seattle Conscious Choice/Evergreen Monthly
(Sept. 2003 to Oct. 2006)
Repositioned and re-launched an alternative monthly devoted to health, environment, food, personal growth, spirituality and social good. Targeted for the Puget Sound region, 60,000 readers through controlled circulation. Pickup rates significantly increased. Parent company owns similar publications in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Columnist and Feature Writer
Chicago Tribune (Jan 1994 to March 2005)
Created and developed new beat at paper, writing weekly columns and stories on personal health and fitness, exercise/nutrition, wellness, environmental health, mind-body-spirit issues, family and psychology plus "Training Table" column. Columnist, senior writer and consulting editor for the Q (Qualities of Life) section. Contribute news stories and features to various sections, including Page 1, Sports and Business. Served on company-wide task force to explore effective ways to develop the Chicago Tribune brand, especially to attract new readers. Nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes for 1997 (Beat Reporting and Feature Writing). Won awards for stories about women’s heart disease, stuttering and mental health. Columns/feature stories ran in more than 100 newspapers.
TV Correspondent
Chicago Tribune/CLTV (Jan. 1994 to Sept. 2003)
Regular reporter for Tribune Company's cable TV news station, Chicagoland TV (CLTV). Contributed weekly segment to a health and fitness show. Other positions: Weekly fitness and sports nutrition contributor to award-winning “Good Eating” food/cooking show for more than four years.
Sports Editor
Chicago Tribune (May 1990 to Dec. 1993)
Supervised daily/Sunday news operations of award-winning section. Managed staff of 70 writers, columnists and editors. Generated ideas, assigned, edited and wrote stories. Developed Bulls/NBA, NCAA and Olympic basketball coverage plans. Served as department’s managing news editor for other sections, especially Page 1, and all Tribune broadcast outlets. Acted as special sections editor, including more than 20 Bulls projects during three title years. Developed new standards for special section coverage. Paper’s lead NFL prognosticator for two seasons. Handled many investigative series, including an early 1990s look at membership restrictions at golf clubs, recruitment practices regarding grade-school athletes and violations of international Olympic drug policies. Other position at the Chicago Tribune: Associate Tempo Editor (Sept. 1989 to April 1990) Top editor on weekday features section, created new beats.
Online Columnist
Tribune Media Services (Jan. 2000 to Dec. 2001)
Wrote a weekly column for syndicated health and fitness package distributed to online sites of newspapers, TV/radio stations, medical centers, community centers and other clients. Topics included exercise, nutrition, mind-body-spirit connection, alternative medicine, health trends, self-growth and environmental health.
Deputy Sports Editor
New York Daily News (Dec. 1988 to Aug. 1989)
Responsible for expanded, reorganized and redesigned Sunday section. Created new content and design that emphasized better organization of news and features for readers. Increased circulation, won paper's first APSE Top 10 award. Developed better communication between copy desk, writers and source editors. Reworked and enhanced major beats.Offered the executive sports editor job in 1989, left for Chicago Tribune position and personal commitments.
Deputy Features Editor
New York Daily News (July 1987 to Nov. 1988)
Managed daily and Sunday operations of paper's entertainment, TV, lifestyle, magazine, travel, fitness and food sections. Led redesign/expansion of several sections. Managed staff of 75, handled syndicated material. Other positions: Sunday Business Editor (Oct. 1986 to July 1987) Created brand-new personal finance section as a consultant, then refined and executed the concept to cover all business news. Served as paper’s news editor during the insider trading scandal of the mid-1980s. Health & Fitness Columnist (Jan. 1985 to Sept. 1986) Started new features column.
Freelance sports writer/radio host
(Jan. 1985 to Sept. 1986)
Handled news and feature assignments, including Knicks basketball and Mets baseball. Co-hosted weekly baseball show at WBAI-FM public radio.
Managing Editor
Sportswise Magazine (Sept. 1982 to Dec. 1984)
Supervised operation of a New York regional sports participant magazine focused on sports ranging for running to in-line skating to pickup basketball. Assigned, edited and wrote stories. Managed all copy flow, worked with a now-leading newspaper/magazine designer to create award-winning glossy magazine. Also Boston and Philadelphia editions.
Freelance Writer/Editor/Speaker
(Sept. 1982 to present)
Writer for Esquire, Sport, Golf, Self, Life, American Health, Outside, Shape, Best Life, Fitness, Parade, Playboy, TV Guide, Walking, The Runner, Ultrasport. Worked as Olympic researcher for Sports Illustrated, consulting fitness editor and personal finance columnist for Esquire.
Author/Book Editor
(Jan. 1985 to present)
--Co-writer of “The Good Mood Diet” (Time-Warner/Springboard Press, coming 2007)
-- Co-writer of “Your Prostate Cancer Survivor’s Guide” (Boca/Tatra Press, 2006)
-- Co-author of “Caregiver’s Companion” (Rodale, 2002)
-- Co-writer/editor/producer of "Jump ATTACK: The Ultimate Program to Jump Higher, Gain Quickness and Be More Explosive" (ATTACK Athletics Publishing, 1999/2002) by Tim Grover, personal trainer for Michael Jordan and 30 other NBA stars.
-- Author of "Mary Lee's Natural Health & Beauty" (Tarcher/Putnam, 2001)
-- Author of "Michael Jordan's 50 Greatest Games" (Citadel, 1998).
-- Author of “Jordan: The Sequel” newsstand book (Sports Media, 1995)
-- Co-author of “The Carolina Panthers: The First Season of the Most Successful Expansion Team in NFL History” (Macmillan, 1995)
-- Editor/writer of three Tribune Publishing books about the Chicago Bulls.
-- Project editor for fitness/nutrition series by Time-Life Books.
-- Co-founder of The Works magazine about spirituality and work. -- Writer for "The Whole Baseball Catalogue" (Fireside).
EDUCATION
M.S., Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University, 1983 B.S., Business Administration, University of Illinois, 1978
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