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Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
Redietz' 2nd cousins wife's brother knew a man that was a janitor at the New York Times. So redietz knows all about journalism.
Well, I was a journalism major for two years until I switched over to English/writing option at Penn State. My first "real job" was as sportswriter/photographer for a weekly newspaper in Pennsylvania. I covered and photographed all sports, wrote the columns, and did a handicapping column. Previously, while in college, I wrote and co-wrote sports columns for small local papers and had my photos published. Back then I developed my own photos using the newspaper's darkrooms. My mother-in-law wrote for the local papers and my father-in-law took photos. He had taught me how to use a darkroom.
The guy I trained under in college was one of the best science writers of that generation. He was my advisor. His name was Bob Gannon, and if you haven't heard of him, you probably should have. He had more than a hundred feature stories published in Popular Science. He was the "adventure editor." He taught me the rules and regs of science writing and he was my go-to guy when I needed a reference letter for grad school or jobs.
https://www.popsci.com/military-avia...non-1931-2003/
Now this isn't the same as having worked a lifetime in journalism as Alan has, but it's possible I'm the second most experienced journalist on this forum. I have had a handful of op eds published in various papers during my 40-year stint as a handicapper. Plus an award-winning essay in The Humanist. Plus some other stuff. My blog is, I guess, a kind of pseudo-journalism, but it's up to between 500 and 900 reads a month, so somebody is reading it.
I guess, if anybody is going to criticize the best journalist on this forum, the duty falls to arguably the second most experienced journalist on the forum.
