Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 6:30pm: Journal-Register Vice President of Content Jonathan Cooper

At the Suburban Newspapers of America conference in Philadelphia recently, Journal RegisterCompany CEO John Paton announced that the newspaper chain will soon be launching an online, hyperlocal news portal in Philly.

JRC Vice President Jonathan Cooper is leading the company’s yet-to-be-named Philadelphia project, and will be speaking at PhIJI soon about this and other innovative endeavors at the company.

Please join us Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tuttleman Learning Center (TL-303AB), at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map)

Jonathan Cooper

Jonathan Cooper, age 36, is Vice President of Content where he is leading The Company’s yet-to-be-named Philadelphia portal project. He lead The Company’s Ben Franklin Project, an experiment to publish 18 daily websites and newspapers using free, web-based tools with a focus on crowd-sourced journalism.

Previously he worked as director of digital content and corporate multimedia editor for Journal Register Company. He has also served as managing editor and online director of the New Haven Register; and editor of The Herald (New Britain, CT) and The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT).

As director of specialty publications, he launched the company’s youth-market magazines in Connecticut and Philadelphia and also led the expansion of Journal Register’s Spanish-language portfolio in Connecticut and New York.

Mr. Cooper’s work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Post and Keene Sentinel (Keene, NH), and he recently taught digital reporting at Quinnipiac University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Keene State College.

Mr. Cooper lives in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

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