DENVER-RCR Wireless News has added two people to its editorial staff.
Sam Omatseye will focus on wireless vendors for the newspaper. An award-winning journalist, Omatseye received a bachelor’s degree in History at the University of Ife in Nigeria in 1985 and has practiced journalism since his first job at Newswatch magazine in 1987.
Omatseye has won a number of awards and fellowships, including Nigeria’s top journalism award in 1993. He was the first recipient of the Gordon Fisher Fellowship for Commonwealth journalists and that entitled him to a year of graduate studies at the University of Toronto in 1991.
Omatseye later won the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships in 1997 to work as a reporter with the Denver Rocky Mountain News, where he set a record in the number of stories written in the history of the fellowship.
He has taught journalism at the Metropolitan State College of Denver since 1998 and has freelanced for InteractiveWeek and the Denver Rocky Mountain News.
RCR Wireless News also hired Mike Dano as its editorial assistant. In addition, he will cover the paging and specialized mobile radio beats. He replaces Dan Meyer, who was recently promoted to reporter, focusing on the wireless carrier industry.
Dano graduated from the University of New Mexico in May 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in print journalism. During his four years at UNM, Dano worked in a variety of positions for the campus newspaper, including staff writer and assistant news editor.
He also served as an intern at the Albuquerque Journal and the Albuquerque Tribune. At the Journal, Dano worked as a general assignment reporter in 1999 and as a legislative reporter during the 1998 session of the New Mexico state Legislature. Dano received several journalistic awards, including first place for team reporting in an in-house Scripps Howard newspaper competition.
“RCR Wireless News is expanding its staff to keep pace with the wireless industry, and I am excited to have two more talented reporters on board,” commented Associate Publisher and Editor Tracy Ford.
