Charles Apple

Bonita Burton, AME of The Orlando Sentinel, writes: 

Thought you might be interested to know that we hired a buddy for Wiliam Couch today: The one and only Tory Hargro.

Absolutely!

Tory was one of the candidates in The Intern contest at SND/Orlando last summer.

He graduated this spring from Alcorn State University, where he made the Dean’s List six times. In addition. Tory worked as the university’s Director of Development and Marketing. In 1999, Tory worked as an intern in the U.S. Senate.

He earned an fellowship this summer at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg.

Tory does web-centric consulting work via his company, NextVerge.

Here’s a peek at some of Tory’s photo and interactive design work:

 
   

Find Tory’s portfolio here.

Find the home page of Tory’s company here.

Find Tory’s personal Web page here.

Check out the blog he kept last year during The Intern contest here.

Congratulations, Tory! Good luck in the new job!

—

UPDATE:

I now have the official announcement out of Orlando:

I’m pleased to announce that Tory Hargro will join the design team as a multimedia artist next month. Tory will report to Design Editor Todd Stewart, building graphics for the paper and interactive elements for the web.

Tory has experience working in a variety of print, broadcast and digital mediums. He comes to the Sentinel off a summer fellowship at Poynter, where he studied innovative uses of technology to spread information. A web designer by trade, he was selected by the Society for News Design as a finalist in “The Intern” competition hosted by the Sentinel last year. Last month he won a MySpace MyEmmy (precursor to the Emmys) for a documentary he produced on his home state of Mississippi: “After Hurricane Katrina.”

After graduating from Alcorn State, Tory interned in the senate majority leader’s office in Washington, D.C. before deciding visual communication was more fun. In addition to his web pursuits, Tory is the founder of the McCormick Tribune Distinguished Journalist Series at Alcorn, a program that connects notable minority journalists to college and high school students.

His first day will be sometime in mid-September.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at 8:08 am and is filed under Job changes, News design, Newspapers, Web news design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.