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Sonya Quick is digital editor for Voice of OC overseeing civic engagement (social media, email and civic engagement), digital fundraising, marketing and design (across-device user experience and digital storytelling). Quick joined Voice of OC in November 2016 and has since managed the first #NewsMatch fundraising drive, re-imagined the Voice of OC logo and visual brand and launched a website redesign. In June 2017, Voice of OC was awarded top news website design by the Los Angeles Press Club. Prior to Voice of OC, Quick worked for eight years at the Orange County Register in a variety of roles including: the organization’s first mobile editor, social media manager, web and blog editor, infographics reporter and reporter. During that time, Quick helped create a mobile strategy for Freedom Communications, launched the first Register mobile apps, helped re-imagine the Register’s disaster plan for the digital age, helped transform community coverage, managed the Register’s 50+ blogs, developed a trial Register community wiki, covered Irvine and launched a mobile apps technology blog a year before the iTunes App Store was unveiled. Quick has been a member of the Society of Professional Journalists since 2003. She served as region 11 director in 2008 and as national student representative in 2004. Quick graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in English literature Languages spoken: English Areas of expertise: Digital storytelling, social media, infographics, data reporting, mobile and web design, news marketing, non-profit fundraising.
We are all so busy these days keeping up with everything. Especially now during Coronavirus. Mowing the lawn, washing the car and making dinner are all mixed in now with video calls, work and studying at home and connecting with family. It would sure be nice to have a personal service that examined your city’s agendas and held your elected officials accountable. And that news agency is Voice of OC.
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Voice of OC was started a decade ago on the simple idea (that some called crazy) to protect the community’s quality of life through solid reporting on local government. And now we have more than 1,000 individual donors who have stepped up to support our mission. Other news sites focus on delivering audiences to advertisers. Whereas our simple nonprofit model lets us focus on why we all got into journalism: to focus on reporting nonpartisan truth-seeking stories that ultimately lead to stronger communities. Please join us today.
Report for America will place 225 journalists in more than 160 local news organizations in the United States this year.
Voice of OC’s news investigations, columns, photography and design once again have earned top praise in the state’s top annual journalism competition.
Tim Stoaks says his first order of business is to grow Voice of OC’s Ambassadors Program of donors who contribute annually $1,000 or more to sustain Voice of OC. This ongoing support is critical to Voice’s ability to add more reporters and more coverage.
A look at Orange County’s experience with COVID-19, by the numbers.
The Tustin City Council has unanimously approved an agreement to construct a new transitional housing facility for homeless families to accommodate the city’s growing homeless population.