⭐DERON DALTON⭐

Writer | Editor | Community Manager | Strategist | Multifaceted Digital Media Specialist

Experience Highlights

Deron Is A Multifaceted Digital Media Specialist With Unrelenting Passions For Writing, Editing, Podcasting, Content Strategy, And Community Engagement. Below Are Some Star Highlights.

Writer

• Broke the Internet writing about pop culture and fandoms (The Tylt), garnering the honorific title “Breaker of Tylts.”

• Brought in thousands of page views covering celebrity culture, online activism, and Black and LBGTQ+ communities (TheGrio, HuffPost, MadameNoire, The Daily Dot).

Editor

• Held positions as Editor-In-Chief (Mizzou’s The BLACKout), Entertainment Editor (The Tylt), and Deputy Editor (The Tylt, PennLive).

• Proficiency in AP style.

• Developed and/or adapted to other editing styles and structures.

Content Strategist

• Ideated and strategized digital campaigns and SEO techniques for projects like “Monster Madness: Scariest Horror Icon,” “Best of the Year,” “Song of the Summer,” “Best of the Decade” for The Tylt.

• Collaborated on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ads for an array of pop culture content.

Community Manager

• Facilitated in-real-life conversations and online chats, which helped bridge together communities.

• “Black Narratives Matter: How to Source Build as Black Journalists w/ BLM Organizers” event in 2015.

• Mobilized fan armies like One Direction’s Directioners in Twitter chats and massive fan voting at The Tylt in 2019.

Social Producer

• Co-managed The Tylt and PennLive’s social accounts (Facebook, Twitter).

• Co-created and produced for The Tylt’s Fan Army accounts (TW, FB, IG) and Tylt Geek’s TW account.

• Got hashtags like #1DWins10s, #BTSWins10s, #GagaWins10s and #KatyWins10s to trend on Twitter as part of the “Best of the Decade” (2019) project.

Podcast | Radio Host

• Produced The Tylt’s fan culture podcast “Fiercely Fandom with Deron.”—interviewing “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 11 contestant Nina West, Variety Awards Editor Clayton Davis and more.

• Co-moderated “Queer State of Mind,” a live radio show airing on Radio Free Brooklyn and podcast centering current events, pop culture and lifestyle from QPOC perspectives.

The Tylt Archive

In the spring of 2016, I became one of the first editors of The Tylt, an online polling platform designed to give online communities a voice to share their opinions by voting on an array of two-sided debates using hashtags. While I got to do some cool, experimental, interactive, innovative things at The Tylt, the outlet unfortunately was discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020. Since it’s now legend, I created The Tylt Archive of my previous work.

NOTE: Some of the articles posted via the Archive were originally written while at the height of serving in my Entertainment Editor position at The Tylt (2016-early 2018). Because Tylt articles were polls that eventually closed with “results attached,” many performed well via search and were later updated and republished throughout my tenure at The Tylt. These are the latest, most updated versions of the polls later republished in 2019-2020.

Also note that since The Tylt is now defunct, many articles were found via Wayback Machine and many embeds are broken links within the PDFs. These samples are meant to capture and showcase some of my previous work, so please try to envision what the articles were beyond any broken links. Nevertheless, here are some highlights. 

⭐DERON DALTON ⭐