At a crossroads of what I love to do and what I know needs to be done
PORTLAND, Ore. (GDMM) – I am a born storyteller.
I asked for a typewriter for my 9th birthday and I published my first newspaper at the age of 11. By 19, I was the editor of a small-town weekly. Over the next two and a half decades, I developed a unique ability to target any audience with timely information, fact-driven storytelling, some sharp wit, and dry humor.
After 27 years of helming newspaper departments, market-leading television news broadcasts, and digital footprint expansion projects, it is time for me to distance myself from the bothsideism that plagues corporate-controlled news organizations and time to reignite the altruism I carried with me when my journey began.
As I join the growing list of career journalists looking to exit the grind of the daily news industry, for a myriad of reasons, I look forward to putting my wide array of skills to work telling stories that are true, stories about people and causes I believe in, and stories that make a difference.
Never has the need for solutions-based journalism and fact-based advocacy been more vital than it is in this moment and all the moments that follow. This is the moment.
This is my moment.
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