Ivan

My blogs

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Editor
Location	Kingston, NY, United States
Introduction	Ivan Lajara joined the Daily Freeman in Kingston in January of 2001 as a copy editor for the News department. In 2004, he started working for the Life department and became editor of the section soon thereafter. He was named Editor of the Year in January 2006 by the Suburban Newspapers Association of America and subsequently won two awards by the same organization for 2008 in the Best Headline and Best Arts and Entertainment Criticism/Commentary categories. He has had a role in Las Noticias, the Freeman's Spanish weekly newspaper. He is the editor of Preview, the Freeman's weekly entertainment magazine, which won an honorable mention by the SNA in 2009 for best entertainment magazine. And he edits special sections like Your Wedding, Home and Garden and Health and Fitness. This blog won second place in 2010's Associated Press writing contest and first place in the 2011 Associated Press writing contes. He was named one of the top 25 young journalists in the nation by Editor & Publisher in 2011 and won first place for online content by the Associated Press. The Peruvian native has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1996. Today, he lives in Kingston.