Clips: Features
Most journalists will tell you that meeting characters is one of the job’s many benefits. Here are a few I came across. The column samples are from my stint as Life Editor at the Poughkeepsie Journal, when I had much more hair.
Features and profiles:
Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck: Poughkeepsie Journal, 1988. A profile of indie filmmaker Arlyck, whose documentaries cast a wry look at everyday life, art and people.
To crash victim, city officer was an angel: Poughkeepsie Journal, 1986. A woman trapped beneath a car. Gas leaking all around. And an officer who just happened to wander by.
Book reviews:
‘The Good Rat’: USA TODAY, Feb. 18, 2008. The death of the “wrong Nicky Guido” is just one of the tales Jimmy Breslin pulls out of this profile of a marijuana dealer turned witness against the mob.
The ‘Saturday’ column, Poughkeepsie Journal, mid-1990s (with thanks to Malinda Reinke):
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