JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE Honors U-T At least a dozen News or Sports Headlines of the Month since 1992 CNPA First place for Best Editorial (Saddleback Valley News, 1982) Merit Award for Best Public-Interest Reporting (San Marcos Courier, 1979) SPJ San Diego  Second place for general excellence (Star, 1981), Third place for general excellence (Courier, 1980), Second place for community service (Courier 1980), Third place for best editorial (Courier, 1980), Third place for best editorial (Star, 1981), Second place for contribution to freedom of information (Courier, 1979), Second place for best feature writing (Courier, 1979), Honorable mention for best page makeup (Star, 1981) Books Edited and wrote major sections of "Masters Track and Field: A History" (Len Olson, McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers, 2001)	THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE March 1986 to July 2003 Sports Copy Editor, January 1999 to present. Edit and code stories and graphics, write headlines and captions, scroll wires, contribute occasional Sunday columns. Check proofs. Assigned many special projects. News Copy Editor, March 1986 to January 1999. Edit stories. Wrote headlines and captions. Designed inside pages. Checked pages in backshop. Other assignments Early wire editor, vacation substitute as Letters to the Editor editor. Edited ombudsman Gina Lubrano's weekly column (until 1999). Wrote tutorials.
	SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL December 1985 to January 1986 Acting Editor. Supervised a dozen reporters and photographers of weekly tabloid. Edited stories. Wrote headlines and captions. Designed pages.
	ALAMEDA NEWSPAPERS INC. October 1982 to December 1985 Copy Editor.  Worked on universal desk producing wire and local news sections of The Daily Review (Hayward, Calif.), The Tri-Valley Herald (Livermore), The San Ramon Valley Herald (Danville) and The Argus (Fremont). Other jobs. Worked as slot, assistant city editor, layout editor, page checker and rim editor. Did special graphics projects. Worked as backup wire editor. Mastered Itek and Atex computer systems. Influential in papers' redesign. SADDLEBACK VALLEY NEWS December 1980 to October 1982 News Editor.  Managed five full-time reporters and a photographer for twice-weekly tabloid in south Orange County, Calif. Wrote editorials, edited copy and wrote headlines and captions. Directed paper's response to a closed preliminary hearing in a murder case, leading to the first statewide test of open-hearings law. SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT October 1980 to December 1980 Copy Editor.  Edited local and wire copy as temporary full-time editor for daily legal and business paper. SAN MARCOS COURIER and SAN MARCOS STAR April 1977 to December 1979 (Courier) April 1980 to July 1980 (Star) Editor.  Full-time editor of the Courier, a weekly broadsheet and sister to The Vista Press, and founding editor of the Star, a tabloid weekly that folded. Did majority of reporting, editing, photography, page design and editorial writing at the Courier. Hired a reporter (now author), Janet Lowe, and a photographer at the Star. LAMAR DEMOCRAT May 1976 to December 1976 Sports Editor, Photographer, Reporter. Covered high school sports, school board, City Hall and courts for five-day-a-week afternoon paper in the county seat of Barton County, Mo. Wrote column for sports page and also did paste-up in the afternoon.

WEBMASTER EXPERIENCE Honors AOL Member Home Page of the Week, Nov. 25, 1996,  Pair Networks Site of the Month for January 2003 First site listed by Yahoo, Google and other major search engines for "masters track." Interviews Seven Questions by Tom Mangan Online Journalism Review: "What Do You Tell the Boss?"

MASTERSTRACK.COM Launched November 1999 Grand Central Station of track and field for men over 40 and women over 35, including records, news, views, a blog, training tips, the world's most comprehensive meet calendar and results archive, plus an e-mail directory and exclusive world seasonal rankings. Links page is widely recognized as the most extensive of its kind. (AOL precursor launched February 1996.) EARTHMADEONLINE.COM Launched February 2002 Internet storefront of Earth Made of Tucson, a Southwestern Indian jewelry and crafts shop owned by my brother-in-law. Site includes shopping cart. U-T SPORTS LINK-O-RAMA Launched summer 2001 Copy Desk resource page has links to all major professional, collegiate and amateur sports sites with a San Diego connection. Includes links to prominent San Diego athlete Web sites.. What they're saying out there Masterstrack.com "is the world's premier gateway to the world of masters track and field." --Ask Jeeves "This is a great site just loaded with information. . . . For those of us over 40, it feels like home. Ken Stone is the person who created this informative place. Take a look, you'll be glad you did!" --Suite101.com" "Hobbies are healthy. More copy editors should have hobbies. This particular hobby has allowed Ken to develop skills that make him a better copy editor, and may result in a valuable tool for all our copy editors." --Kelly Murphy, former U-T News Copy Desk chief "The best source for masters track and field information." --Masters sprinter Gerry Krainik "Mounds of masters info from Ken Stone"  --run-down.com "Everything for vets (except a young pair of legs)." --Guernsey Athletics

EDUCATION Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi,  Kappa Tau Alpha. Completed teacher education course at MiraCosta College in January 1982. Eligible to teach journalism in state community colleges. Also attended: Regional and national conventions of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. Took part in at least three professional copy-editing seminars and Photoshop workshop at the Union-Tribune.	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS at Lawrence, August 1972 to May 1976 Bachelor of Science in Journalism with Distinction. Grade-point average: 3.78 of 4.00. Associate Sports Editor, sportswriter, copy editor, reporter. University Daily Kansan. Features Editor, Jayhawker yearbook 1975-76 Sports Editor, Jayhawker yearbook 1974-75 Writer, Kansas Alumni magazine 1974-76 News editor, Jayhawk Journalist 1975
	HARRY A. BURKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Omaha, Nebraska, September 1971 to June 1972 VALENCIA HIGH SCHOOL Placentia, Calif., September 1968 to June 1971

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