I bleed ink. For more than 30 years, I worked in the newsrooms of daily newspapers. I've worked as reporter and editor at the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay Times) and as an editor at the Charlotte Observer. For 15 years, I was the managing editor of the Salisbury Post, about an hour north of Charlotte and once respected as the best daily newspaper for its size in the state. I also served as managing editor and reporter for a group of six weekly newspapers in the Charlotte region.
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