FRANK LOVECE 61 West 106th Street, 6D New York, NY 10025 212-678-5192 http://franklovece.com frank@franklovece.com Editor   Journalist   Author Web Editor
Nov. 2005- present	Freelance Journalist Newsday, Film Journal, Habitat and other periodicals and Web sites. Author of the 2006 book Lost and Found, about the work of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. (See under "Author," below.)
Dec. 2001 - Nov. 2004	Senior Editor, SCIFI.COM (SCI FI Channel, NBC-Universal) Editor of consumer site for one of the largest cable-TV networks. Responsible for all text and for site's "voice." Edited daily-deadline content, both journalistic and promotional, and wrote/edited for show sites including Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN, Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica. Produced daily front page, creating links to dynamically generated art and text. Managed the Production Editor, the Community Producer and three off-site section editors. Assigned and edited freelancers. As part of Marketing department, worked with Programming and other divisions to promote SCI FI Channel and to provide users with timely, accurate, entertaining information. Proficient in HTML, FTP and related Internet production tools. Well-versed in AP Stylebook and Chicago Manual of Style.
Sept. 2000 - May 2001	Editor, Hachette Filipacchi New Media Created companion sites for the major national magazines Popular Photography, Sound & Vision and Mobile Entertainment for new-media division of publishing and TV conglomerate. Edited new and repurposed copy. Created hypertext content such as sponsored packages and contests. Worked with Design, Marketing and Tech departments and freelancers. Managed producer.
Sept. 1996 - Sept. 2000	Senior Editor, Gist TV Online Conceived, assigned, edited and wrote feature stories, news items and reviews, and produced hypertextual content for online magazine with daily new editorial content plus user-customizable TV listings. Led coordinated Editorial/Design/Tech teams on site-enhancement projects — one adding hundreds of hyperlinks to Gist's listings grid, another allowing users to filter TV programs by multiple genres. Editorial Producer, "TV Quickie with Nikki," a daily one-minute streaming-video program.
Previous	Freelance Journalist Writer/columnist/contributing editor for periodicals including Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Penthouse, Parenting, Billboard, Sound & Vision, many others. Columnist for several years for the United Media/NEA syndicate, appearing weekly in hundreds of newspapers. Author Lost and Found (Filipacchi Publishing / Microsoft, 2006; project for non-profit National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) Godzilla! The Complete Guide to Moviedom's Mightiest Monster (William Morrow Publishing, 1998) The X-Files Declassified (Citadel Publishing, 1996) The Television Yearbook (Putnam/Perigee, 1991) Founding Editor The Brady Bunch Book (Warner Books, 1990; co-author) Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show (Prentice-Hall/Simon & Schuster, 1988) (reissued as Taxi: The Official Fan's Guide, Citadel Publishing, 1996) Also wrote for Marvel, Dark Horse and Harris Comics
	Education B.A. Cum Laude, Communications, West Virginia University Arts/Entertainment Editor, Daily Athenaeum (20,000-circ. newspaper). Undergraduate representative for university's alumni magazine. Salaried internship at WWVU statewide radio news service. Student government, including committee chairmanship. Salaried summer internship, U.S. Extension Service, Washington, D.C.
	Other Performer, New York City improv-comedy troupe Wingnuts (2001-02)