Included the following responsibilities:
Providing community coverage for The Leader, a weekly newspaper covering Scott County, Iowa; and The Dispatch/The Rock Island Argus, a daily covering the greater Quad-Cities area. The Quad-Cities traditionally consists of Rock Island and Moline in Illinois and Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, but also provides extensive coverage for surrounding communities including Silvis, East Moline, Carbon Cliff, Colona, Cleveland, Barstow, Coal Valley, Milan, Port Byron, Rapids City, Hampton, and other small towns in Illinois, and LeClaire, Eldridge, Blue Grass, Buffalo, Mount Joy, Pleasant Valley, and other communities in Iowa.
Coverage includes or has included: attending and reporting on various school board and town council meetings, most notably the Bettendorf School District and the Davenport Community School District.
Work includes writing features on various community and school- related topics; interviews, photographs, and research. Work also includes other assignments as needed, on-the-spot reporting for unfolding events, and business profiles for periodical promotional inserts.