Laurie Jones
- Editor
University Park, PA 16802
- Email laj175@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0586
Areas of Expertise
- Editing for print and web
- Project management
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Office
- Plone, HTML
Education
- B.A. in Journalism from the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State, Schreyer Honors College graduate
- M.S. in Journalism from the Ohio University School of Visual Communications
Laurie Jones is an editor at Penn State, where she uses her many years of editing experience to work with the Pesticide Education Program team to create and update manuals that are used by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to train pesticide applicators across the commonwealth. Laurie has been editing Pesticide Education manuals part-time since September 2018 and full-time since March 2023.
She also worked part-time on the Penn State Extension web team for more than 5 years. Prior to Penn State, Laurie worked as a designer, content editor, and photo editor at The Centre Daily Times newspaper in State College for 15 years.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Laurie has worked at newspapers across the country, including Pittsburgh, Iowa, Chicago, and Detroit. Laurie’s favorite weekend of the year is the AAUW Book Sale in May, where she has bought hundreds of books over the years, and read many of them.
