Meet the Dixon Tribunes new editor Hello readership of the Dixon Tribune. My name is Jarrod R. Kohls and it is my honor to announce to you that I will be taking over the Editor position at this paper starting next week. For the last two years I have filled the Staff Writer/Photographer position at the River News Herald and Isleton Journal, a sister paper to the Tribune. Having such an experience with a comparable small town news outlet, when the opportunity arose to take my craft to a new venue I had no other option but to gleefully accept the new role. The importance of the community newspapers is something that I not only appreciate but also celebrate to a humongous degree. Having grown up in Rio Vista the chance to utilize my passion for “the word” in a forum that benefited the community in which I was raised was not only a privilege but also an incredible blessing. Graduating from CSU Sacramento in 2008 with a B.A. in Literature the daunting task of finding a field of work that would allow an useful application of the skill sets, which the curriculum instilled, was not so much an easy one. Two years in the education field later the chance to earn my stripes as a writer manifested itself in the form of the RNH. Hitting the ground running, my tenure at that paper was a monumental tutorial in Journalism that turned into a passion project that I took quite seriously. Stumbling across a professional outlet that allows my “off the clock” favorite past times of photography, writing and general creativity truly allowed me to fly my artistic flag proudly in a manner that has pushed me to grow in a deluge of ways. The end product was revitalizing newspaper that had seen much better days. By working diligently to the point of exhaustion, Editor Galen Kusic and I created a vastly more visually stimulating and content heavy paper that many residents from the several Delta communities tout as “the best that the paper has been in over two decades.” That is what I hope to bring to you Dixon. Although my responsibilities at the RNH included sports, food and wine, local, regional and state politics as well as entertainment coverage, a bulk of my time was spent documenting community triumphs at a multitude of levels- large, small and everywhere in between. While it is my aim to provide the standard of coverage that you have grown accustom to with Brianna Boyd at the helm I am looking to you, Dixon, to show me how you want your community newspaper to work. I am of the mindset that a paper, such as the Dixon Tribune, can only be truly successful and serve it’s over arching purpose, which is documenting the history of a city and those who live and work in it, is with immense community involvement. As I continue to envelope the nuances of your great community I look forward to getting to know what makes Dixon what it is while generating a newspaper that is properly representative of this fair city. As I have witnessed in the few days that I have spent familiarizing myself with the area and meeting some of its residents it is becoming increasingly apparent that there will be no such deficiency in said input, which is a fact that find quite exciting. With that, I look forward to serving this community and getting to know you all. Jarrod R. Kohls
Posted on: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:58:00 +0000
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