Hello and welcome to my small corner of the interwebs! My name is Greg Linch and I’m a curious person. Maybe that helps explain why I enjoyed The Magic School Bush and Bill Nye the Science Guy so much as a youngster. I’m sure all those afternoons spent watching the History Channel as a teenager have something to do with that, too.
When I was in elementary school and someone would ask, “What do want to be when you grow up?” I would respond, “I want to be a scientist and inventor.” But by eighth grade, I’d decided that I wanted to be a writer — a fiction writer, specifically. I even heavily researched (we’re talking years, people) different topics that I’d want to write novels about.
In high school I found a new outlet for my passions: journalism. But, although I didn’t fully realize it until later, I was a technically-inclined journalist early on in my career. I created my high school newspaper’s first website and email account (no one else thought to do either one!), I taught the newsroom InDesign (we’d initially used Pagemaker) , I helped maintain the digital camera gear and frequently fixed paper jams when we printed stories or draft pages.
Jumping ahead…
I now work at The Washington Post as the web producer producer for health, science and environment (read more about that) producer for world and national security. Prior to that I was news innovation manager at Publish2 (read announcement), where I worked with journalists and newsrooms to share stories, curate links, etc. and collaborated with our product development team.
I graduated from the University of Miami (Fla.) in May 2009, where I worked at The Miami Hurricane in a number of roles, including editor in chief during the 2007-2008 school year.
During my senior year, I served as community director of CoPress, a start-up focused building a community, a technical support network and WordPress hosting solutions for college news organizations.
My professional experience includes working as an intern at The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel and Jewish Journal.
I am a former Poynter Young Journalist Fellow and Al Neuharth Free Spirit Scholar.
For more information, check out my resume or LinkedIn.
Honors
- I was named one of the top 100 college journalists in the United States for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 academic years by UWIRE.
- I was named College Journalist of the Year as part of the South Florida SPJ chapter’s annual Sunshine State Awards.
- Along with The Miami Hurricane staff, I received a first place SPJ National Mark of Excellence Award for online news reporting during my time as editor of The Hurricane. I oversaw our coverage of the first-ever Spanish-language debate among U.S. presidential contenders that included a live blog in addition to a breaking news story, slideshow and video posted soon after the event ended (this kind of comprehensive coverage was novel in the college media realm, at the time).
- I won a first place SPJ region 3 Mark of Excellence Award in the general news reporting category for a two-part series on faculty housing: Faculty find University housing in Coral Gables unaffordable and Local real estate boom negatively impacts most new faculty.
- Soon before graduation, I received the School of Communication Award (top recognition for a graduating senior in the school) and the Print Journalism Award (top recognition for a graduating senior in the “print” journalism program).
Study Abroad
Learn more about my two summer study abroad trips or see the related sites:
The opinions expressed on this site are my own and do represent those of my employers — past, present, future or from any other dimensions or realities.
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