Amestoy

Career summary: For the past year, I've been responsible for the online editorial operation of The Sun and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin newspapers in Southern California. My position was the first of its kind in the Los Angeles Newspaper Group and has focused on directing readers toward the Web and toward our Web-specific content, which includes video, podcasts and blogs. I'm also responsible for two major special sections, including a business section that was named best special section for our circulation category by the California Newspaper Publisher's Association. However, before I was promoted into this position, my career has been very focused on community journalism. In 2004, I was hired by The Sun to run community weeklies and to launch four additional community-focused tabloids in the market. From 2001 to 2004, I was deputy editor, editor and associate publisher of a weekly startup newspaper in Hemet, California. That paper, The Valley Chronicle, won 28 regional awards for journalism excellence. Before that, I served as a sports reporter and as a assistant city editor for The Sun from 1998 to 2001. From 1996 to 1998, I was sports editor of the former The Hemet News and a reporter there from 1992 to 1993. I was sports editor of the Paso Robles Country News from 1991 to 1992 and a reporter at The Banning Record Gazette in 1990.

APME activities: None.

APME should: Continue the discussion about the important cultural changes that are coming to newsrooms thanks to the Internet. APME should be taking a leading role in positioning journalism and journalists at the forefront of new technologies and new ideas of presenting the news. There should be no doom and gloom, only the unlimited possibilities that we're facing. It's an exciting time.

In my spare time: I serve on the board of directors of the Ramona Outdoor Play and Ramona Bowl Amphitheater. I'm currently the vice president of the board, which oversees the historic Ramona Outdoor Play, an 83-year-old historic outdoor drama based on Helen Hunt Jackson's novel. Since 1998, I've been a meet director for a high school track and field meet in San Jacinto, Calif.