Gene Park

About

Gene Park isa reporter for The Washington Post, covering video games culture. He is formerly a social media editor and member of The Washington Post's audience development and social media team. He is also the president of the Asian American Journalists Association chapter in Washington, D.C. He was engagement editor for Hawaii-based investigative news startup, Honolulu Civil Beat, started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. During this tenure he oversaw the social media launch of The Huffington Post in Hawaii. He spent a year as a communications executive for TLC PR, a public relations and marketing firm in Honolulu, Hawaii. He also is a former online news producer and columnist for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He has also served as president of the Asian American Journalists Association of Hawaii, and vice president of The Hawaii Newspaper Guild/Communications Workers of America. He has been a professional journalist since 2003, and has worked in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Hawaii and Micronesia. His writing expertise includes breaking news, business, features, entertainment, PR collateral, press releases, website content production and opinion writing. His current career goal is to meet and help address the many challenges facing the media industry during this exciting but turbulent period. Specialties: Writing for online, print and broadcast; Interviewing; Copy editing; Page design; Online content management, production; Legal research; Social media tools, outreach; Media consultation; Newsroom management experience; Photography. Adept at the following programs: Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Publicus, Web Publisher, Documentum, NewsEditPro, SharePoint, ASSIST.net and QNXT.