Jamie joined The Progressive Farmer staff two days after college graduation in 1995, and has been with the magazine ever since. After a brief stint with the design team he designed and built a web site for the magazine and became editor of ProgressiveFarmer.com. He is now Senior Editor of the magazine.
Jamie has won awards from National Agrimarketers Association and the Association of Business Press Editors for ProgressiveFarmer.com. The site has been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal in 1997 and the Dow Jones Business Report in 1998 as one of the best places on the web for farmers.
In 2003 and 2004, he won first place awards from the American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA) for single- and double-page design, typography, and the web site. He also won first place awards for the web site and magazine design from AAEA in 2005 and 2006.
In 2005, he developed and launched the award-winning Best Places To Live in Rural America web site and designed, edited and helped write and photograph a special section in the magazine for the Best Places program. The program will continue in its third year in 2007.
Jamie has won several regional writing and design awards and took the 1995 National Mark of Excellence award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his print and radio coverage of a devastating tornado that destroyed a church near Piedmont, Alabama, in 1994. In 1999, he won awards from the Association of Business Press Editors for both his web site and magazine work. AAEA awarded Jamie in 2006 for his writing for the Best Places program.
He has served as a speaker and panelist for the American Agricultural Editors' Association and the Society of Professional Journalists, both on the local and national levels. In the summer of 2006, he attended the prestigious Stanford University Professional Publishing Course, where his team's magazine project was awarded first place at the end of the school.
He lives in Maylene, Alabama, on the rural outskirts of Birmingham. He and his wife Charissa (an elementary school principal) sing with a rock band and are very active at Mountaintop Community Church.
