About George Kelly

KELLY, GEORGE is the online coordinator at Bay Area News Group-East Bay's Contra Costa Times, a 160,000-circulation newspaper that covers San Francisco's East Bay. His responsibilities include offering best-practices advice on blogging; moderating site forums, polls and reader-generated content; and collating the Sunday paper's "online extras" section. Kelly is a native of Washington, D.C., and graduated with a bachelor's in mass communications from Bowie State University. His first newspaper job was a Chips Quinn Scholar internship at the Oakland Tribune, which led to stints as an education and general assignment reporter for the Tri-Valley Herald in Pleasonton, CA. He returned to Pleasanton two years later to work on ANG Newspapers' universal copy desk as an editor and paginator before leaving for online copy-editor shifts at thestandard.com and Salon.com. He joined the Times in 2001 as a copy editor and paginator and most recently worked as the paper's first morning online reporter. He enjoys social media, songwriting and yearly jaunts to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest's Interactive Festival.