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Adjunct Lecturer
Jack Downs is the design and systems editor at the Press-Republican in Plattsburgh, where he oversees daily production duties, training and newsroom systems. After graduating from Cornell University in 1984, Downs started his journalism career as a general-assignment reporter at the Press-Republican. Since then he has held a variety of reporting and editing positions. As the newspaper's first-ever design editor, Downs redesigned the paper in 1996 and 2002. He guided the paper into the world of digital production, first in Quark and now in InDesign.
Education
B.S. in Communication Arts, Cornell University
Course Taught
Newspaper Design
Experience
- Design and Systems Editor, Press-Republican
Contact Jack Downs
Phone: (518) 564-2134
E-mail: jdown001@plattsburgh.edu