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Simon Ogden
Reporter, City Desk
simon.ogden@example.com•(555) 660-3327•Tucson, AZ•simonogden.press
Profile

City desk reporter with seven years covering local government, courts and housing in Arizona. Four hundred bylines, a records request that forced a county audit, and a two-part series on rental evictions that the state legislature cited in committee. Files clean copy on deadline and reads the budget before the press release.

Experience
Senior Correspondent, City Desk — Sonoran Times
06/2021 – Present
  • Cover city council, county board and housing for a 90,000-circulation daily; 180 bylines a year across print and web
  • Broke the story of a $4.2M road-contract overrun through public records; the county opened an audit within a month
  • Reported a two-part series on rental evictions, 60 interviews and three data sets, cited in a state house committee hearing
  • Anchor the desk's live coverage on election nights; 2024 city results posted 11 minutes after the final count
  • Mentor two reporting interns a year on records requests, court filings and sourcing
Reporter — Sonoran Times
09/2018 – 05/2021
  • Covered the courts and public safety beat; 220 stories including 14 trials from arraignment to verdict
  • Built the paper's first searchable database of police use-of-force reports from 1,100 pages of records
  • Wrote the weekly explainer column on how the city budget works, the desk's most-read recurring piece
  • Filed from the field with photos and video; 40 stories a year carried the reporter's own visuals
Reporting Intern — Arizona Public Radio
01/2018 – 08/2018
  • Produced 25 radio spots and 12 web stories on state politics during the legislative session
  • Fact-checked the morning news show's scripts against primary sources on a daily deadline
Skills
Public records and FOIA requests|Court and council coverage|Data journalism (spreadsheets, SQL basics)|Interviewing and sourcing
AP style|CMS (WordPress, Arc)|Photo and video for web|Live blogging and social
Local government and budgets|Housing and evictions|Courts and public safety|Elections
Education
B.A. Journalism — University of Arizona2013 – 2017
Editor-in-chief of the student daily, senior year
Recognition
Arizona Press Club, first place, investigative reporting — 2025, for the road-contract series
Arizona Newspapers Association, best beat reporting — 2022

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