Russell Tuff 239-353-1687 email@russelltuff.comRussell lead his newspaper teams to several first place finishes in 2009 in the Florida Press Association Newspaper Contest, including the coveted First Place in General Excellence in the largest category. (Contest winners announced July 2009)
Russell began his newspaper career in 1965, sweeping floors and cleaning toilets in the offices of his parents' weekly paper in Blackduck , Minn. He was later promoted to hot lead melter on the Linotype machine and eventually ran several presses including a Heidelberg, AB Dick Offset and a Goss press. Seeing his potential, his parents added sales calls to his duties at the age of 16.
After college, he began a career in Radio Sales, took on duties at Zales Jewelry as assistant store manger, and moved on to become a Financial Planner with IDS American Express.
Russell joined Tuff Publications, where he served as sales manager in Blue Earth, Minn. In 1989, Tuff Publications moved to Collier County, where Russell served as publisher of the Everglades Echo, the Golden Gate Gazette and several other Florida publications.
He launched his first website in 1997 and spoke to the Florida Press Association about the importance of a community newspaper to be on the web.
Russell launched several newspapers and accompanying websites from community weeklies, to Spanish language publications for Naples News Media Group (an EW Scripps company) during his tenure. He served in the roles of Publisher and Executive Editor Community Publications at Scripps. His duties included advancing a chain of community newspapers to collaborative journalism to heighten the quality of journalsm within the communities they serve
Russell has been president or director for many organization including church councils, chamber of commmerces, economic development advisory boards, planning commissioner to local civic and non-profit boards.
His latest venture is Social-Impact, a Public Relations firm specializing in Internet Marketing. The emphasis is marketing through content, and building the web platforms to provide the integration needed for optimal performance and searchability on the search engines. You can find it by going to http://social-impact.com.
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Kaydee Tuff
Kaydee Tuff is an award winning journalist with 25 years experience in news writing and editing.
Born and raised in Bemidji, MN., she completed a degree in education from Jamestown College and spent four years as a kindergarten teacher with the Jamestown Public School System before moving to Blue Earth, MN, in 1985. There, she joined Tuff Publications as a reporter/photographer.
In 1986, she was awarded Best Local News Story from
the Minnesota Newspaper Association. She also received several awards
from the Florida Press Association.
In 1989, she moved to Naples, FL, where she served as reporter, editor, and production manager of several publications including the Senior Times, Golden Gate Gazette and Everglades Echo. She is currently employed as Editor of the Collier Citizen, a Scripps publication, in Naples, FL. She is proficient in Adobe Photoshop, InCopy, InDesign, Quark, Jazbox, Ellington, Word, design and lay-out.Her experience also includes transcribing services with Manpower, covering Collier County Government meetings.
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Her volunteer efforts include Golden Gate Civic Association, Golden Gate Woman's Club, Golden Gate Middle School Advisory Committee and represents the Civic Association on the Golden Gate Task Force, which is made up of representatives of all Collier County government divisions, Collier County Sheriff's Office, and the Golden Gate Fire & Rescue District.
In 2007, she was one of five Scripps employees, nationwide, to receive the William R. Burleigh award for her volunteer efforts in the community.
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Judy Tuff Judy Tuff most recently was the member ministry coordinator for Trinity By The Cove Episcopal Church. Her position was to capture new visitors and capture their interests to bring the new members into an active role within the church. This included communication with members, promotion of events, coordinated volunteerism, ownership building, building support materials, managing members via websites.
In addition, she has been trained in many aspects of promotion, marketing, as well as certified in programs such as EFM Ministry, Guardian Ad Litem, and similar programs of outreach.
Judy Tuff took bookkeeping classes by mail in 1964 in preparation for her line of duties at the soon to be purchased community newspaper, The Blackduck American in Blackduck, MN.
The Tuff family moved to Blackduck in March 1965 and Bob Tuff took on full operations of the business which besides the newspaper, included a job shop, where many other types of printing was done. The machinery at the time was the old linotype that used hot lead, and many drawers of hand set type cases.
Their children, Sheila, Sandra, Russell, Roy and Ralph all helped in the business in various ways, from cleaning to helping fold the newspaper on print day as they came off the press one flat sheet at a time. They then had to be gathered, folded and then labeled, bagged and taken to the post office.
The business continued under Tuff ownership, also acquiring the Kelliher Independent newspaper, until 1980 when a neighboring newspaper, the Northome Record became the new owners.
The Tuffs moved to Blue Earth, MN and became owner/operators of The Blue Earth Post, The Elmore Eye and the Winnebago Enterprise.
Many changes in mechanical operations took place, going from hot lead to photographic type setting and then computer generated type. Bookkeeping methods changed as well, from handwritten debit on the right and credit on the left, to programs that placed the numbers in columns designated and generated the monthly and yearly figures.
When both Russell and Roy joined the newspaper business as employees, they also became shareholder in Tuff Publications, Inc. In 1988 the company purchased the Everglades Echo newspaper in Everglades City, FL. Shortly thereafter they acquired the Shopper�s Special, the Senior Times and the Golden Gate Gazette.
Bob Tuff died in March 1993. The other family members, Judy, Russell and Kaydee, and Roy and Maria continued the publications from offices in Naples, FL
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Riley Tuff
Riley Tuff is a graduate of the
University of Central Florida with a degree in Public Administration.
He has has experience working with
the UCF’s Department of Emergency Management, Seminole County’s Office of
Emergency Management, and The Walt Disney World Resort’s Emergency Management
Department.
His specialties include exercise
development, coordinating with multiple organizations, disaster planning, and
training and development.
Tuff has created, facilitated, and
evaluated over 23 drills, many having up to 40 participants from 5 lines of
business. These drills evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency
response plans. He is responsible for the development of the first evacuations
drills for the professional services buildings at the Wald Disney World Resort.
He has learned the best way to
overcome a difficult situation is through the help and knowledge of others. By
cooperating with law enforcement, fire rescue, and transportation entities he
has development emergency response plans for a wide variety of scenarios. These
include Disposal of Suspicious Packages, Animal Escape Procedures, and methods
for Monorail Evacuation to name a few.
With a certification by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency in Advanced Concepts of the Incident Command System,
he has taught ICS courses for college students and professionals. He also
instructs on actions employees can do to prepare and respond in emergency
situations.
Mr. Tuff can advise on a variety of
Emergency related topics, such as:
- How to plan your own exercises and drills.
- Development of
emergency response plans.
- Ensuring communication during emergencies.
- Implementing ICS in your organization.
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Allyn Tuff
Allyn is trained in Criminology from St Leo University
Areas of development include:
Determining Law and Legal rights
Counsel Court Process Issues
Substantive Due Process Rights
Procedural Due Process Rights
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