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McKinneyNews.net is an online news source, providing in-depth, local news articles and photographs to the fastest growing community in the country. We are the only news outlet in McKinney to offer exclusively Internet coverage, enabling us to provide our readers up-to-the-minute news, as well as more feature articles covering a wider variety of topics, including Crime and Courts, Education, city and county Government, Entertainment, Business and Family issues.
McKinneyNews.net seeks to provide McKinney with fair, accurate news stories and photographs of the city’s events and newsmakers. Our goal is to build lasting relationships with the community by maintaining the highest standard of integrity in all of our endeavors. Originally founded as McKinneySports.net in August 2005, the site expanded to include news coverage in August 2006.
ANGIE BADO President/Founder angie.bado@mckinneynews.net
Prior to founding McKinneySports.net and McKinneyNews.net, Angie worked three years as Administrative Assistant to the Campus Coordinator and Head Football Coach at McKinney North High School. While at North, Angie’s connection with the athletes and coaches invigorated her passion for sports and gave her valuable insight into the world of athletics and fueled a desire to be more involved with the world of sports. She has put her leadership skills to work as founder of McKinneySports.net, allowing her the opportunity to blend her love of sports with the business world and share her passion for sports with the community.
A McKinney resident for 17 years, Angie has spent time in leadership roles in the many volunteer organizations. She has chaired various parent groups at the ACT Academy, Glen Oaks and Valley Creek Elementary Schools, Dowell Middle School and at McKinney North High School. When McKinney North opened in 2000, she was directly involved in creating, organizing and chairing the PTSO, the Bulldog Athletic Club and the Gridiron Club.
JOELLE TEDFORD Marketing Director joelle.tedford@mckinneynews.net
Joelle Tedford joined McKinneyNews.net in September 2006 as Marketing Director. She brings more than 10 years of marketing and public relations experience.
For the last four years, Joelle served as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the American Red Cross of Portage County, in Ravenna, Ohio. In that role Joelle was responsible for coordinating all fundraising and special events, handling media relations and serving as the chapter spokeswoman. She successfully increased total net revenue for annual fundraising and attained a sponsor retention rate of at least 95 percent four years in a row.
Prior to working for the Red Cross, Joelle spent two years at Kent State University, Wellness Center, in Kent, Ohio, working in Marketing; coordinating health and wellness programs for faculty and staff and creating all marketing materials for the Center.
From 1995-1997 Joelle worked on the staff for Governor George W. Bush in Austin as an Executive Assistant. From 1994-1995 she was employed by The Woodlands Chamber of Commerce after earning her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing in 1994.
Joelle has spent time in volunteer leadership roles with school fundraising committees and with various other non-profit organizations.
STEVE KIRK Sports Editor steve.kirk@mckinneynews.net
Steve joined McKinneyNews.net in August 2006 as a staff writer and became sports editor one year later. He is a veteran of sports journalism who has spent the past 16 years as an editor and beat writer. Most recently, he finished his second stint at The Birmingham News covering the University of Alabama beat for the state’s largest newspaper. The News awarded him its highest honor in 2001 – the "Big N" Award – for his yearlong coverage of an NCAA investigation, the firing of Crimson Tide football coach Mike DuBose and subsequent hiring of Dennis Franchione.
As an editor, Steve worked at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, where he served as Assistant Sports Editor and directed the newspaper’s coverage of colleges, high schools and NASCAR. He was also involved in the Super Bowl XXXIX host city’s planning and execution of its vast coverage.
Previously, Steve served as Sports Editor of The Decatur (Ala.) Daily and The Meridian (Miss.) Star. He also covered the Clemson University beat for The State in Columbia, S.C., and the Auburn University beat for the Birmingham Post-Herald.
JOE ARRIOLA Sports Writer joe.arriola@mckinneynews.net
NATALIE MERRILL Sports Writer natalie.merrill@mckinneynews.net
Natalie joined McKinneyNews.net in September 2007. Prior to that, she was a student at Southern Methodist University, where she received her B.A. in journalism.
While at SMU, Natalie was the beat writer for the women’s volleyball team in the fall of 2005 for the SMU Daily Campus. She also covered baseball, basketball, track and tennis for the TCU Daily Skiff.
Natalie has also been a regular contributing writer to the Dallas Blog and FootballInsiders.com, and she currently is a research assistant to Matt Mosley for his ESPN blog, Hashmarks.
She lives in Coppell, the town where she grew up, but she will soon be a McKinney resident.
BRETT RYDER News Writer brett.ryder@mckinneynews.net
ANGIE WALLACE Sports Writer angie.wallace@mckinneynews.net
Angie joined McKinneyNews.net in September 2007 after working as a sports intern at The Dallas Morning News last fall, where she covered high school football and volleyball.
She graduated in Print Journalism from Brigham Young University in April 2006. A week later, she began an internship at the New York Daily News on the metro desk but managed to score interviews with Johnny Damon, James Wright and Archie Manning at charity events.
As a senior at BYU, Angie reported on high school sports for The Salt Lake Tribune. She also served as the sports editor and beat reporter for BYU’s student newspaper, The Daily Universe. Her favorite assignments there included interviewing Dirk Nowitzki at a Jazz game, talking to quarterback Steve Young before he entered the Hall of Fame and coach LaVell Edwards before he was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Angie played a year of college basketball at BYU and led her volleyball and basketball teams to the state playoffs at Cleburne High School.
KEVIN WASHBURN Sports Writer kevin.washburn@mckinneynews.net
Kevin Washburn joined McKinneyNews.net in October 2007. He is a graduate of Texas State University-San Marcos, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication. It was at Texas State that Kevin had his first experience as a journalist-as a sports reporter for the University Star, where he covered both sports and news.
After graduating in 2005, Kevin was hired as a sports writer at the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung. He covered some of the state's top programs, including the 2006 Class 4A state champion New Braunfels Unicorns baseball team, before moving to McKinney.
RODNEY WILLIAMS News Writer rodney.williams@mckinneynews.net
Rodney is an original staff member at McKinneyNews.net. He was previously an award-winning editor and writer at the McKinney Courier-Gazette and McKinney Living Magazine. He served as a writer for the McKinney Courier-Gazette’s sports department for one year before being promoted to sports editor.
Under his guidance, the Courier-Gazette sports page was voted best sports page by the Texas Press Association for daily newspapers under 7,000 circulation. Rodney spent three years as the beat writer for McKinney High School and one year covering McKinney North High School. He directed coverage for nine area high schools and chronicled Celina’s march to two football state championships and a baseball state title. Rodney also served as the beat writer for the McKinney Marshals in their inaugural season.
ELISE ANDERSON Photographer elise.anderson@mckinneynews.net
Elise Anderson is an original staff member at McKinneyNews.net. She is a graduate of McKinney High School and its journalism department. Elise spent three years working at the McKinney Courier-Gazette, two of which were spent as the newspaper’s photo editor.
Elise’s experience ranges from shooting current events to sporting events. She has covered every sport for local and area high schools and was the only photographer asked to take an aerial shot of the inaugural Crosstown Showdown football game between McKinney and McKinney North.
In 2005, Elise won first place in the Texas Press Association’s Division III News Photography category in its annual Better Newspapers Contest.
