When I started, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I worked for a couple of small dailies in eastern Canada. I moved to the US and after a few short jobs out of the business, I got a position with a chain of suburban weekly community newspapers. That was in 1983; I've been with that company since then, surviving multiple ownership changes, several rounds of layoffs and numerous beat changes. All my beats have focused, for the most part, on individual communities, although I have done, and do, a lot of education writing. Those stories often overlapped communities, simply because school districts in Illinois often overlap communities.
I write hard news, cop shop, features of all kind, education, municipal, zoning and business related - everything that has to do with the daily life of a community. It's Fourth Estate Grassroots Democracy stuff at its most basic. I love it.
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Date: Sunday, 19 September 2010 11:24 pm (UTC)I write hard news, cop shop, features of all kind, education, municipal, zoning and business related - everything that has to do with the daily life of a community. It's Fourth Estate Grassroots Democracy stuff at its most basic. I love it.
I don't, however, make money at it.