Nate has more than a decade of full-time newspaper newsroom experience as a reporter and editor. He is experienced in following industry and issue-specific trends and topics, generating original story ideas and researching, reporting and writing stories on deadline.

His experience and specialty is business-oriented reporting and feature writing on a range of topics such as local and state economic development, startup companies, entrepreneurs, tourism, transportation, legislative policies that affect business-related issues, consumer and retail trends, and feature stories that highlight the work and achievements of executives.

As a longtime reporter, Nate also has experience writing about healthcare, K-12 and higher education, public safety, agriculture, and the environment, arts and entertainment, and faith-based issues.

Nate worked for two years as the assistant editor of a regional, weekly business journal in Virginia. In that capacity, he was responsible for generating story ideas, planning short and long-term news coverage, editing the work of staff writers, freelance writers, and unpaid contributors, arranging for and regularly taking photos to accompany stories, providing print design input, writing story headlines for print and online and posting and curating content on the publication’s social media channels.

As a former U.S. military brat, Nate is aware of the unique challenges that face military members and their families, although he has not served in the military. Thanks to his time as part of a military family and many years as a reporter, Nate has lived or worked in Germany, Colorado, Washington state, Delaware, Mississippi, and Virginia, his home state since 2008.