Leslie Wilkinson is News Design Team Leader at The Charlotte Observer, where she co-manages the six-person night design desk. In her 8 years at the Observer, she has been a 1A, metro and regional designer. Leslie has helped coordinate the Observer’s election night coverage for 5 years. She also works with the Observer's IT department in maintaining the newsroom’s CCI pagination system and has trained new designers on the system.
Leslie received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She spent two years as managing editor for visuals at The Daily Tar Heel, the student-run daily newspaper. Leslie also interned on the features design desk of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She completed a graduate-level certificate in communication and technology from UNC Chapel Hill in 2007. Leslie hails from Richmond, Va.
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