Hoag Levins is a highly-experienced digital journalist, web editor and online video producer. He has managed large national web newsrooms and also operated as a one-man video department, capable of reporting the story, writing the script, operating the camera, editing the program and completing all tech processes required to mount the finished video on the servers of video sites like Brightcove, YouTube and iTunes.

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He was editor of AdAge.com, the web site of Crain Communications' Advertising Age magazine, from 2001 to 2007. That year, he was assigned to design and oversee the physical construction of an Advertising Age video studio capable of producing various video news series covering the advertising and marketing business. Those included "3 Minute Ad Age," "About Digital Marketing," and "AdAge Video" (See YouTube.com/AdAge). In 2008, "3 Minute Ad Age" was honored by the national Society of Business Editors and Writers as the year's best audio-visual work in an online U.S. business publication.

Levins was laid off in January, 2010, as part of a continuing wave of deep staffing and production cuts across all publications of the print-based Crain Communications.

APBnews.com
Prior to joining Ad Age, Levins was the founding and executive editor of APBnews.com, an online national news service focused on crime, justice and safety. During the last quarter of 2000, APBnews.com logged about 24 million page views per month. Staffed by journalists hired away from mainstream newspapers, magazines and broadcast news organizations, APBnews.com won seven major journalism awards during 1999 and 2000.

Previous to APB, Levins was the executive editor of the Editor & Publisher company where he oversaw the editorial operations of Editor & Publisher magazine and web site.

Historical Web Sites
On a pro-bono basis, Levins has built and maintains web sites for a number of local New Jersey historical and cultural institutions, including the Camden County (NJ) Historical Society, the Indian King Tavern Museum, Camden County's 1858 Dinosaur Discovery Park, the Haddonfield Dinosaur Sculpture Committee and the Wharton Esherick Museum of Paoli, Pa. He is also the owner and editor of HistoricCamdenCounty.com, a news and feature service focused on history-related events, trends and people in southern New Jersey.

Levins has spent three decades in newspapers, magazines and book publishing. He is a former staff reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Courier Post of Cherry Hill, N.J.

Professional Organizations
Currently on the board of directors of the national Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, he is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Online News Association (ONA), a national organization of online news editors and reporters.

Levins has also authored or ghost written six nonfiction books on such diverse topics as the history of American folk songs, the changing patterns of female criminality, middle eastern oil politics and the history of the U.S. Patent Office.

A U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, Levins attended Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., and lives with his wife, Sandy, in New Jersey.