About me
I’ve been a professional journalist, with a couple of short gaps,
since 1988, when I started as a full-time reporter at the Evening Phoenix, in Phoenixville, for $12,500 a year.
I started
reporting at the Daily Local in West
Chester, Chester County, in 1989. I worked at the Reading Eagle as a reporter and editor from 1995 to 2009.
I left
the Eagle to become the managing
editor of bctv.org, started with local funds and a big grant from the Knight
Foundation. In March 2013, BCTV’s executive director fired me for insubordinately
posting a link to comments by Mayor Vaughn Spencer that she had told me not to
post.
Since then I’ve written a blog about local journalism and many business
articles for the Lehigh Valley Business
Journal.
Put the interests of the readers first; that was the main lesson
distilled from editors including John Harvey, Bruce Mowday, Dave Warner, Denny
Deysher, Nick Yost, Chuck Gallagher, Karen Miller, Donna Reed, Tom Knause, Mark
Nemirow, Kevin Ames, Bill Reber, Tina Bushnell, Nick Zafery, Brian Young, and
many others.
I have a master’s degree from the University of Virginia, where I
studied Old English, grammar and teaching English as a second language as well
as literature. I wrote papers about the Bible, Moby Dick, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad,
Kant and Wittgenstein.
I taught English in Japan for 14 months. I have also traveled
from Maine to California, and in Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, England, Wales,
Ireland, France, Spain and Brazil.
I grew up near Downingtown, Chester County. Now I live in Lower
Heidelberg Township and read and garden and do music as much as possible.
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