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ART DIRECTOR HEATHER SWAIM
Heather Swaim has won several national awards for her graphic
design at the OC Weekly, including first-place finishes in the
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Fortune magazine design
director Robert Newman calls her "one of the smartest and most creative
publication designers around . . . . energetic and provocative, bold and
direct, passionate and humorous, and always editorially sound. The OC
Weekly cover is oftentimes a work of art."
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EDITOR ELLEN GRILEY
Ellen Griley grew up in Long Beach and graduated cum laude from
the University of Notre Dame, where she studied English Literature and
was a DJ on the campus radio station. She moved home to Long Beach and
signed on as an editorial assistant at OC Weekly, was promoted to
Calendar Editor and then Managing Editor, a position she held for two
years while also covering Long Beach and Orange County's music and
cultural scene. From touring with Matt Costa to shot-gunning beers at
work—for an article!—Griley finds stories worth telling, and she's
thrilled to share these stories with her hometown.
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SENIOR EDITOR THEO DOUGLAS
Theo Douglas earned a Master's degree in American History from
Cal State Long Beach, then worked nine years as a daily newspaper
reporter before realizing his true interests lay in uncovering
strange-o's you've never heard of: hot rodders, hillbillies and assault
weapon owners who might never pick up a paper, but are out there
breathing our air. Somewhere. Theo also writes about fashion, design,
architecture, and surf and car culture—while documenting some of the
region's more singular court cases. His work also has appeared in
publications including Wahine, Modart, Brentwood and Reader's Digest
magazines, and the California Journal.
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SENIOR EDITOR DAVE WIELENGA
Dave Wielenga got his start at the Long Beach Press Telegram as a
$2-an-hour copy boy in the sports department in , so his arrival at
The District Weekly would seem to bring his career full circle, except
he insists it has felt more like a rhombus. Dave spent 23 years at the
P-T, covering most of the major beats in sports—including two
Olympics—then moving through features, entertainment, investigations and
spot news before taking a buyout when the paper slashed its staff in
. Since then he has been on the staffs of two alt-weeklies—New Times
Los Angeles and OC Weekly—and freelanced for magazines ranging from
Rolling Stone to US Weekly to Modern Maturity and newspapers from the
Los Angeles Times to the Washington Post. In between, he lived four
years in Mexico, where he taught English at Tecnologico de Monterrey.
His hobbies include running and wondering what it all means.
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ADVERTISING DIRECTOR SCOTT MABRY
Eight years ago, Scott Mabry joined Orlando Weekly as a
production intern and was quickly promoted to account executive for the
Florida paper's sales department. He joined OC Weekly in and was
just as quickly promoted—from account executive to events manager and
then retail sales manager.
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MARKETING DIRECTOR KRISTINA COFFEEN
Southern California born and bred, Kristina Coffeen has been
involved in nearly every aspect of media, marketing, and public
relations. Film production and marketing, television production,
publishing, and running her own boutique public relations and marketing
agency–this gal knows media. Former Events Manager for OC Weekly,
earning awards for top grossing revenue in special issues. She earned
her B.A. at UCLA in Communication Studies, with an emphasis on Mass
Communication and Media. Currently working on her M.A. in Advertising,
Public Relations, and Marketing.
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MEDIA CONSULTANT MICHAEL SIGMAN
Michael Sigman is also president of Major Songs, a music
publishing company which owns the s to many standards written
by his late father Carl Sigman as well as new material by contemporary
writers. He was a music critic to Record World magazine, a leading music
industry weekly, from to . A year later, he joined LA Weekly,
the nation's largest alternative weekly, and was quickly made publisher,
a job he held until . During that time, he helped launch the
monthly LA Style magazine and OC Weekly. Sigman graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and magna cum laude, with a BA in Philosophy, from Bucknell University
in , serves on several boards of directors, and works with the
Wright Institute (a non-profit psychoanalytic institute which provides
inexpensive long-term psychotherapy to the poor), Business for Social
Responsibility, Campaign for a Landmine Free World and Peacetrees
Vietnam. He lives in Los Angeles.
WEB EDITOR MILES CLEMENTS
Miles Clements grew up in one of Lakewood's impeccably portioned
tract homes, then in a not-so-seaside chunk of Seal Beach. He graduated
cum laude in Literary Journalism from UC Irvine and currently wastes his
days testing the limits of his metabolism.
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WEBMASTER JEFF GOULD
Jeff Gould graduated with a B.A. in Communication Studies from
CSULB in after only three previous majors, five years, and
approximately 27 stitches. Jeff has won awards for both Rain-Gutter
Regatta ('94) and Attendance ('93, '97). He now lives in Long Beach.
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