Scot Douglas Celley

154 Stonehouse Lane, Columbia, Pennsylvania USA 17512

717.684.3926

celley@pa.net

Born: 1960 June 29

Where: Hoboken, N.J.

Citizenship: United States of America

EMPLOYMENT

1989-2007: Newspaper Stringer

• Breaking news coverage included
  • protests
  • rallies
  • police situations
• Meeting coverage included
  • municipal
  • school board
  • community groups
• Feature coverage included
  • gun violence
  • Kwanzaa
  • car shows
  • graduations
  • first babies of new year
  • spelling bees
  • goat drops
  • cow plops
• Enterprise reporting included stories on
  • teacher negotiations
  • organ transplants (5-part series and boxes)
• Photography
  • feature
  • spot news
• Bylines
  • At least 3,000

2007 July-October: Editor and Publisher

• The River Tribune
  • News blog covered the boroughs of Marietta, Columbia and Wrightsville, Pennsylvania

1995-1999: Radio Stringer

• WSBA-AM York, Pennsylvania
  • Copywriter for on-air talent
  • Covered
    • meetings
    • visits by national political figures
    • elections
    • fires
  • Edited sound
  • Wrote scripts for produced packages

1978-1983: United States Navy - Radioman Third Class

• Top Secret, NOFORN security clearance
• Duties included
  • Typing using teletype equipment
  • Filing
  • Large-scale copying
  • Morse code transmission and receiving
  • Tuning HF, UHF and VHF transmitters, receivers and transceivers
  • Antenna maintenance
  • Carried out authorized large-scale destruction of classified materials
• Awards included
  • Good Conduct Medal
  • Naval Expeditionary Medal
  • Sea Service Ribbon
• Stations included
  • USS America CV-66
  • USS Manitowoc LST-1180
  • Naval Communications Station, Keflavik, Iceland

1983-1990 Various jobs

• cab driver
• receptionist
• word processor
• night janitor
• legal librarian
• road crew flagman
• line worker at a gefilte fish factory

PUBLICATIONS

• York Daily Record and York Sunday News of York, Pennsylvania
• Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Daily Item of Sunbury, Pennsylvania
• Central Penn Business Journal of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• United Press International
• The Birmingham Times of Birmingham, Alabama
• George Street Carnival
• Columbia Ledger

AWARDS

2000: Keystone Press Award for ongoing News Coverage, Division 2

EDUCATION

2005 to present: Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania

• Major: English, with Print Journalism Option
• Minor: History
• GPA: 3.37
• Expected graduation date: 2009

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Typing Speed: >40 wpm

Software

• Microsoft Office suites
• OpenOffice Suite
• WordPerfect

Web sites

• Lancaster County Democratic Committee
• Ron Ford for County Commissioner

Training

• 1975: learned BASIC in high school
• 1979: NAVMACS - Naval Modular Communication System - a computer communications program and hardware
• 1993: Self-taught HTML 4.0