Journalism
After laying the groundwork for a career in newspaper work by serving as editor in chief of my college newspaper back in the early 1960s, I’ve worked at various journalism jobs at different times, in which I’ve served both daily and weekly papers in capacities that have included reporter, copy editor (handling everything from obituary pages to “People” columns, complete with catchy headlines), bureau chief, and managing editor of a weekly. Below are samples of some of my work that has combined reporting with the art of headline writing. The top ones are stories I did last year for a free weekly where I still do reporting and editing, along with an editorial I wrote in an hour (and a very late hour at that), and the ones that follow are of interviews I did while serving in the aforementioned ME position with an enlightened judge (which I think some readers might still find informative) and an acting police chief.
Editorial, Pine Barrens Tribune
Imagining How the Stalled Effort to Save Teddy Bear Academy
Would Have Gone Over With the Man Who Inspired the Name
Fri, Mar 29, 2019
What is in a name? Or more precisely, what’s in a name like “Teddy Bear Academy”?
Well, it turns out that the cute and cuddly little moniker given to the Evesham Township School District’s daycare and preschool facility, which is now facing the threat of imminent closure due to an administrative judge’s order in a lawsuit filed by a privately owned competitor, has a rather formidable political connection.
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