Project(s): Innovation News, OPL Website

Mark Newell is a fourth year New Media Publishing student with a minor in Communications. This is his first and (regrettably) last quarter with the OPL as a student researcher and designer for the CMS portion of the Innovation News project. Outside of the OPL, Mark has also extended his co-op from last year at the Democrat and Chronicle into a part time position, with hopes of transitioning to full time after graduation. In his year and a half with the company, he has worked extensively on the redesigns of FingerLakesWine.com, RochesterInsider.com, RocLoop.com, and other D&C owned properties. Also in that time, he has designed numerous graphics for the paper, and programmed interactive features including the insider Radio and the "Street Sense" audio interview template. Outside of work and school, Mark works pretty extensively with Bloody Good Horror, designing and maintaining all web related aspects as well as participating in a weekly round-table podcast that has amassed over 1,000 listeners a week and growing. Mark also "sings" (yells) in a touring hardcore band, Election Day, that is scheduled for a two week tour through the East Coast/Midwest in the Summer of 2008. Outside of his obligations, Mark spends much of his time planning trips to exotic locales (Dansville) with his girlfriend, exploring social media, listening to music, attending shows, frequenting DogTown Hots, blazing through his Netflix queue, playing FIFA 06, collecting Lucha Libre paraphernalia, and dreaming of having enough money to follow up on some lingering tattoo plans.