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Founder of The Assignment Desk is Alan Portner: 

Alan  Portner is a 35 - year media veteran writer, reporter, editor, and publications executive.   

He understands the complex relationship between writers, support personnel, and the people who employ them.  He knows your needs as managers of communications enterprises and the importance of getting the highest quality work done on the schedule you specify.

After earning a Journalism degree, Portner began his writing career as a reporter at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He has served as a columnist, arts reviewer, editor, advertising director, or publisher at daily newspapers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, and Wisconsin almost continually since.  

Portner has been a corporate vice-president for two newspaper companies, part-owner of newspapers in Iowa, Kansas, and North Carolina, an association executive, and proprietor of a newspaper consulting business.

            Portner is a sitting officer of Washington Independent Writers, the nation’s largest writer’s trade association. 

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