Jeramy Gordon
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Award-winning journalist Jeramy Gordon, at age 21, became the youngest managing editor in the history of Knight Ridder when he was hired to run a chain of six free-daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gordon was an employee of the Palo Alto Daily News when newspaper giant Knight Ridder bought the paper in early 2005. After leaving Knight Ridder in 2006, Gordon went on to start his own free daily newspaper in Santa Barbara called the Santa Barbara Daily Sound. The Daily Sound is a free five-day-a-week "micro newspaper" focusing mainly on local news.
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[edit] Menlo College
Gordon is a graduate of Menlo College, a small, private college in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was editor-in-chief of the school's paper, the Menlo Oak.
Gordon got his start in journalism at Menlo College, where as a freshman, he was given to opportunity to join the schools newspaper staff with no prior experience. As editor Gordon took the college paper to new heights, including increasing the paper's size and circulation.
Gordon is credited with reviving the paper, which won the College Media Advisors' "Best Overall Newspaper" award two years in a row under his watch.
Gordon was president of several campus clubs along with being the station manager for KMXX 100.7 FM and KMLO Channel 6.
[edit] Awards
Gordon has won awards from the Peninsula Press Club and the California Newspaper Publisher's Association for news writing, headline writing and page design.
He is also an award winning film maker.
[edit] Thumbsdown Productions
While in high school, Gordon, along with a few friends, created the award winning movie production company "Thumbsdown Productions," which is currently in the middle of its first full length feature titled "The Bad Beat," directed by Daniel Barkley, also a founding member. The company's was originally headquartered Gordon's bedroom and comprised of a couple VCRs, a two line sound mixer, a microphone and a Videonics Text machine. The company has since moved into to new state-of-the-art facilities in Riverside, Calif. capable of High Definition professional quality video production, Sound editing and Foley as well as Motion Grafx.
Gordon took his love for movies to college where we won awards for "Best Documentary" and "Best Film" at the 2002 and 2003 annual Menlo College Oakies Award Ceremony.
Gordon left Thumbsdown Productions to build his growing newspaper empire, but still owns an interest in the company. He is scheduled to go back to work with Thumbsdown Productions in the Summer of 2006, continuing his multimedia endeavors.
[edit] Palo Alto Daily News
Gordon got his start at the Palo Alto Daily News in 2001 where he began as a freelancer for the sports department. Gordon had applied for a job at the paper to then-editor Brian Bothun, but was turned down due to lack of experience. But he didn't give up. He bought a police scanner and a digital camera and started to cover stories in the greater Palo Alto area. After a few months submitting stories and photos to the Daily News, Gordon arrived at his part-time job at Color Me Mine in Menlo Park and picked up a copy of the Palo Alto Daily News to find one of his photos on the front page.
Gordon immediately called the paper and requested another interview. He was hired on as part-time copy editor in the sports department and was allowed to do some freelance writing.
Gordon worked his way through the ranks, eventually being promoted to Managing Editor in 2004. Gordon left the paper in 2006 after it was sold to Knight Ridder to start his own free daily.
[edit] Santa Barbara Daily Sound
In January of 2006, Gordon founded NODROG Publications, LLC — the parent company of the Santa Barbara Daily Sound — and currently serves as the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
