D2 C.V.

David Downs
110 Highland Ave.
San Francisco, CA.
94110
415.240.2742 cell
415.525.3493 desk
david.downs@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2004, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL., Medill School of Journalism, Academy of Alternative Journalism, Fellow
1998-2002, University of California Santa Barbara, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature


EMPLOYMENT
2008-Present, Arts and Technology journalism for WIRED, The Columbia Journalism Review, Rolling Stone, Juxtapose, The Onion and many other fine publications. Village Voice Pazz and Jop Judge. Webby Awards Judge. Noise Pop Panel Moderator. Pirate radio DJ.


2007 - 2008, Web Music Editor, Village Voice Media, San Francisco, CA.
Managing a national staff of sixteen including hiring and acquisitions. Digital and print reporting, writing, photography, editing, and production for a national sixteen-paper, alternative newsweekly chain. Doubled SF Weekly.com average monthly page views in eight months.


2006 - 2007, Music Editor/Web Editor, East Bay Express, Oakland, CA.
Award-winning weekly column writing for 70,000 circulation weekly newspaper. Launched East Bay Express daily web content. Editing a twenty-page weekly print music section with a staff of freelancers across the country.


2004 - 2006, Contributing Research Editor, Wired Magazine, San Francisco, CA.
Writing and fact-checking technology features for top-tier national glossy magazine with a million-plus circulation.


2004 - 2006, Writer, UC Berkeley, Institute for Transportation Studies
Technical abstracting, reporting, researching, web page designing and other publishing tasks for a multi-million dollar research institute specializing in transit, and air travel research.


AWARDS
2008 First Place, Technology Writing, The San Francisco Peninsula Press Club, "The Day The Music Dies"
2006 First Place, Features Writing, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, "Roboscalper"
2006 First Place, Column Writing, the East Bay Press Club, "The War Profiteer"
2006 Third Place, Editorial, the East Bay Press Club, "Smooth Criminal Fingers"


REFERENCES
Available upon request.

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS TO:
Wired Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, RollingStone.com, The Village Voice, Columbia Journalism Review, The Onion, The Believer, McSweeney's, BLURT.com, Gelf.com, Stanford Magazine, SF Weekly, East Bay Express, Juxtapose.com, and many, many other fine publications.

NOTED INTERVIEWEES: Lou Reed, Chuck D, George W. Bush, Matmos, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dave Eggers, the Rampart Police Department, Steve Winwood, Les Claypool, Ben Folds, Lars Ulrich, Larry and Sergey of Google, Zach Hill, Dan The Automator, Kool Keith, Blackalicious, Amon Tobin, Josh Homme, Girl Talk, The Strokes, Jamie Lidell, Hot Chip, David Hayter, Crow, Joel, Servo, Dalton Caldwell, Chuck Klosterman, Will Franken, Erik Otto, Isaac Brock, Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, The Pack, Mike Relm, Greg Werckman, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan Stevens, Massive Attack, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and many, many more.