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David W. Reid, the publisher of Vital Theology, has worked in communications for 30 years.
From 2000 to 2003, he was director of communications at Duke University Divinity School, a United Methodist seminary in Durham, N.C., that enrolls students from more than 30 denominations. At Duke, he helped establish and administer a statewide contest for excellence in religion reporting. Previously, he spent 14 years in corporate communications. He was vice president of an independent public relations agency in Boulder and Denver. Later, he was manager of public relations for Storage Technology Corp., then a Fortune 500 corporation, where he was honored with the Chairman's Award. His earliest experience was in daily newspapers, where his reporting won regional honors from the Society of Professional Journalists. He was the first lifestyle editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. He was rewrite editor, assistant suburban editor, and assistant city editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer. In Denver, he was assistant sports editor and later executive sports editor of the Rocky Mountain News, where he supervised a staff of 27 in one of the nation's most hotly contested newspaper wars. Reid holds a B.A. in communications from Linfield College, an American Baptist-related institution in McMinnville, Ore. A lifelong Methodist, he served as evangelism chair at Trinity United Methodist Church in downtown Denver at a time when the church received more than 200 new members annually. He also chaired the Council on Ministries and the Staff-Parish Relations Committee there. He is now a member of First United Methodist Church, Fort Collins, Colo. |