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Unipresser
Last Name
First Name
Bureaus Worked
Brief Biography
Allen
Ira
Baltimore, Chicago (UPR), DC (Middle Atlantic Desk), Washington, White House
I began my career with UPI as a summer replacement in Baltimore in 1967 while still at the University of Maryland. When I graduated in 1970, I became full time and transfered to the National Radio Desk in Chicago the following year. I returned to my home town of Washington to work on the newly established Middle Atlantic Desk and joined the Washington bureau in 1973. I covered the Senate, national politics and the White House (and of course all manner of general assignments). For 10 years, I was on the adjunct journalism faculty at the University of Maryland while still at UPI and after leaving the company in 1988.
I have since worked for a congressman, edited suburban weeklies and most significantly become a health communicator for several nonprofit health organizations. I am active in the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Press Club.
I remain in the DC area consulting for health nonprofits and remain married to Marin Pearson Allen, Ph.D., the deputy director of communications for the National Institutes of Health. My daughter is a lawyer, and my son went bad -- straight into journalism where he is "leadership correspondent" for Congressional Quarterly.
Allen
Ira
BR, UPR, DC, WA, WHU
I began my career with UPI as a summer replacement in Baltimore in 1967 while still at the University of Maryland. When I graduated in 1970, I became full time and transfered to the National Radio Desk in Chicago the following year. I returned to my home town of Washington to work on the newly established Middle Atlantic Desk and joined the Washington bureau in 1973. I covered the Senate, national politics and the White House (and of course all manner of general assignments). For 10 years, I was on the adjunct journalism faculty at the University of Maryland while still at UPI and after leaving the company in 1988.
I have since worked for a congressman, edited suburban weeklies and most significantly become a health communicator for several nonprofit health organizations. I am active in the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Press Club.
I remain in the DC area consulting for health nonprofits and remain married to Marin Pearson Allen, Ph.D., the deputy director of communications for the National Institutes of Health. My daughter is a lawyer, and my son went bad -- straight into journalism where he is "leadership correspondent" for Congressional Quarterly.
Bauman
Margaret
Charleston, W.VA., Newark, Milwaukee
Journalist since I graduated from Michigan State University in 1964, starting out as society, entertainment and religion editor for the Anchorage Times. Joined UPI at Charleston, W.Va. in 1960s after getting fed up with the rox bureau in Pittsburgh, PA., thanks to the advice of Nicki Wolford. Later worked for UPI in Milwaukee, spending much of the late 1960s covering civil rights demonstrations in the streets, before joining the Newark bureau, Journalism also led me to CBS News in New York, rox in Denver and finally home in 1990 to my beloved Alaska, where I work fulltime as a journalist and live with a team of wonderful sled dogs.
Bothwell
Kearney
hc, ix, fz, lv, na, cb
Bruning
Harald
Hong Kong Bureau
Born and raised in Germany, university studies in Germany and Spain (political science, economics, Romance languages), moved to Hong Kong in 1982.
Working as Macau-based correspondent between 1985 and 2005 for a number of newspapers and news agencies, including UPI, Reuters, The Hong Kong Standard, Eastern Express and South China Morning Post.
Worked for UPI between 1988 and 1996
Founded The Macau Post Daily in August 2004.
Carnicelli
Joe
New York (NXS)
I joined the UPI Sports Department in New York as a temporary summer baseball dictationist in April, 1966, three weeks after being discharged from the Army. I was given a full-time position six months later and worked in the New York bureau for the next 19 years. I worked on the baseball desk and supervised college football coverage for five years before being named NFL editor. I was elevated to the position of Executive Sports Editor in September, 1976, and remained in the position until my resignation following the 1984 Olympics.
I was fortunate to cover some of the most memorable sports events of the 1970s and 1980s. Those that stand out the most include the U.S. hockey team's victory over the Soviet Union at Lake Placid, Reggie Jackson's historic three-homer game in the World Series, Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception", record-setting bone-chilling NFL playoffs at Cleveland and Cincinnati, Roberto Duran's "No Mas" fight against Ray Leonard, Kellen Winslow's overtime heroics against the Miami Dolphins and most of the great fights involving Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Alexis Arguello among others.
After a brief stay as a sports publicist, I worked nine years as Managing Editor of ESPN's SportsTicker operation and three years as Media Relations/Marketing Director for the Heisman Trophy, a position that ended when the Downtown Athletic Club closed due to damage from the World Trade Center bombing.
I live in retirement in Mesa, Arizona, but stil work as an independent contractor on ESPN and HBO boxing telecasts doing research and statistics.
Moved to UPI USA in Raleigh, Atlanta,Ga. Then moved overseas to Hong Kong as picture div mgr. Traveled Asia, including being evacuated during the fall Vietnam April 29 75.
Returned to Canada in 77 to head up UPCanada pictures which lasted until 84. Later, 1990 moved to UPI Washington as VP / GM pictures world wide. Was extied as many others were in 92. Returned to Canada.
Covered many , many assignments world wide. Too many to mention here.
Currently working (soon to retire) as Picture editor at the Windsor Star, a CanWest publication in Windsor, Ontario. Canada.
If you need more you know where I am. UPI was my life (the UPI we all knew) and I would still be there if things had gone differently. Great place, the most dedicated news / picture people I have ever worked with anywhere in the world.
Chris
Sieroty
Los Angeles and Washington. San Diego Correspondent
Cleary
Bernard R.
Austin picture, New Orleans picture
Hired 7/1/1962 as USP Bureau Assistant (I was already a USNR Chief Photographer's Mate). Was 5th year photog.when transferred to NEP w/ responsibility for Louisiana, 6/67. Won Texas Headliners Spot Photo 1st Place in 1963 and 66. Ran NEP from 7/7/1967 thru 8/24/74. Won 1st Place in Spot News and Feature, New Orleans Press Club, 3 times; one more in 1982. Went from one newspaper with Unifax in 1967 to ten Unifax clients in 1974.
Cleary
Bernard R.
USP/Austin 7/62-6/67;NEP/NO LA 7/67-8/74
Hired as Bureau Asst. USP 7/62,shooting 4 or 5 assignments per day. Won 1st Prize, Texas Headliners News Photo for 1962 & 1965. Covered sniper in Univ. of Texas tower, sniper in NE Howard Johnson. Came to NEP 7/67, the year the Saints entered the NFL, & while wildman Jim Garrison was accusing Clay Shaw of JFK assassination. Had one LA Unifax newspaper in 1967, ten when I was paid severance and dismissed in 8/74, a few months after the strike. I was NE picket captain. Won New Orleans Press Club Photo 1st Place award four times. Spent next 20 years US Civil Service running Navy Photo Lab that supported 50 commands and agencies.. Also spent 40 years Naval Reserve, retired Chief Photo Mate. Married, seven children, twelve grandchildren.
clifford
james
SX
I joined UPI in 1960 and jumped to AP in 1985, retiring in 2000 as a broadcast editor and feature writer. I spent all my career in San Francisco, where I was born. I loved working at both wire services, but I feel the nation lost a great deal when UPI hit the iceberg and AP had a monopoly on gathering and distributing news. I am a bit ashamed to do what I will do next: plug my book, "Philip's Code: No News is Good News - to a Killer." It's on amazon.com. It's a crime novel set in the world of the wire services. A good read, but I have to concede some would call it a rant. I think of it as a muckraker or whistleblower .
Cohen
Ronald
Hartford, Montpelier, New York, Washington
Joined UPI in its last profitable year, worked in New England for four years until I got a master's from Columbia in 1965-66 on a year's leave of absence from UPI. Rejoined in the NX bureau, 1966-72, which included a stint as editor for PM papers. In 1972 transferred to Washington, where I served as news editor, then bureau chief until named managing editor of UPI in 1984. Fired in 1986 after directing coverage of UPI's bankruptcy and internal turmoil, co-author with Gregory Gordon of "Down to the Wire, UPI's Fight for Survival," published in 1989. The story of the battle for control of this historic news agency won a number of prestigious journalism awards, including the SPJ-SDX medal for journalism history, the Frank Luther Mott award from the University of Missouri. It was named business book of the year (1989) by Business Week magazine.
After my departure, I worked for Gannett News Service until I retired in 2001, wrote a nationally syndicated column for two years, and have been an adjunct professor of journalism at Northwestern University since, teaching in the Medill News Service graduate school Washington semester program. In Junly. 2007, was elected to the University of Illinois Journalism Hall of Fame.
Collins
Michael
HC, WA-NTL, WA-FORN, LMO, LON
Joined UPI just out of college, when HC was expanding for MetroWire - and had a great time for 11 years despite four ownerships, two pay cuts, two bankruptcies and more failed restructurings/management changes than I can remember. Left UPI in 1998, spent time at Worldwide Television News in London, then freelanced and consulted for Internet companies and TV stations in the San Francisco area for five years, before joining Voice of America in 2002.
dagawitz
morty
nyp
new york photographer from 1969 until laid off in 1971, then an editor for the ap until 1976. left journalism, but not photography.
DiGirolamo
MIchele
Kansas City, MO; Philadelphia, PA; Atlantic City, NJ
I love UPI!
Durand
Enrique
Buenos Aires, New York, Washington
Fasbinder
Joe
Los Angeles, Chicago, National Broadcast
Began as switchboard operator in 1976, and worked my way into National Broacast (Chicago) where I edited Broadcast Book Corner in addition to everything else. Moved to Special Services as a business writer and in 1986 to Los Angeles, where I worked broadcast and general assignment. I wrote Computer Comment for UPI until 2000. I have also worked or freelanced with the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Adweek and a host of other publications.
Flowers
Earl
Des Moines, Iowa; Pierre, S.D.; Lincoln, Neb.; Hartford, Conn.
I joined UPI in Des Moines, Iowa, in February 1966; transferred to Pierre, S.,D., in August 1971; transferred to Lincoln, Neb., in March 1975; transferred to Hartford, Conn., in January 1981. I left UPI in April 1984 to work for United Technologies Corp. in UTC's communications department. I took early retirement in 2006 after working in UTC's Corporate office in Hartford; its Hamilton Sundstrand division in Windsor Locks; and its Otis Elevator division in Farmington, Conn.
Flynn
Mike
Spokane, Olympia, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco
Joined UPI in Spokane in 1961 while a college student. Transferred to Seattle briefly in 1965, then to Olympia in March of 1966 and named bureau manager a year later. To Los Angeles as regional executive in 1970, Seattle as regional executive in 1972, San Francisco as regional executive in 1979 and became business manager/marketing director in 1980. Left to become editor of San Francisco Business Journal in 1981, then publisher of Seattle (Puget Sound) Business Journal, from which I retired in April 2006 after 24 years there.
Fornell
David
Chicago (stringer) Little Rock, New Orleans
Staff photographer, Chicago Daily News, Picture editor, Arkansas Gazette, stringer UPI Little Rock, AR, Photo bureau chief, UPI New Orleans, photo editor, The New York Times.
worked 21 years for UPI, from Jan. 1961 thru March 1982. went to US News & World Report where worked from 1982 thru fall of 2001. spent one year as special consultant to Gen. Colin Powell at US State Department; sworn into govt service on 10 Sept 2001. joined Knight Ridder Newspapers DC Bureau in fall 2002 as a consultant; went on staff as sr. military correspondent April 2003. began writing weekly syndicated column on military affairs same date. retired from daily journalism in June 2006 after only 48 years, and moved home to Refugio County, TX. continue to write the weekly column syndicated by Tribune Media Services, and writing books. i spend winters in south texas; summers in colorado. joe galloway
GREENBLATT
WILLIAM
x
began as a stringer in x bureau in 1980 as a photographer
Gremaud
Michael
UC, X, NYS
Began working for the Tucson Daily Citizen during high scovering night pox beat, during features, etc. Hired by Gene Doherty in UC while in college; moved to X and worked under Leo Soroka as Asst Bureau Mgr; covered the 1966 baseball All-Star Game with Leo Peterson and Milt Richman; promoted to NXS and worked with Fred Downs, Vito Stellino, Bill Verigan, Steve Snyder, Curt Block, etc. Also did freelancing for ComPix
--Joined UPI in Boston in February 1967, where I covered the State House until August 1969, when I left UPI. --Rejoined UPI in New York in March 1970, where I was on the General Desk, the Metro Desk and the Cables Desk. --Transferred to Tel Aviv as a staffer in May 1972. --Transferred to Belgrade in January 1976 as chief Balkan correspondent with responsibility for Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. --Transferred back to Tel Aviv in April 1977 as bureau manager. --Transferred to Washington in January 1981 as Pentagon reporter. --Deputy foreign editor in October 1987. --Fforeign editor from 1989 until October 1990. --Assistant then deputy foreign editor of The Washington Times, November 1990-June 1999. --Desk editor, Bridge News, June 1999-April 2000. --Opinion page editor, The Baltimore Sun, April 2000-July 2006, when I retired.
Hauda
William
Madison, WI
Reporter for 22 years, covering legislature, governor, other state officials, various agencies, state Supreme Court, Dane county circuit court and US District Court..
Hoenig
Bob
nxa
Started out stringer for Newark NJ bureau while in college, covering riots in Newark, Asbury Park and Freehold NJ; hired in NXAudio shortly after leaving college. Staffed the NXA Onite for 11 years, before taking over evening and then day desks. Also covered space shuttles for Audio, working out of BWA. Opted to stay in NX after Radio moved to DC, and became NX-based reporter for a couple of years before being laid off in 1984. Worked at WOR for a while after that before joining ABC News-Radio as an editor in 1986. Moved to Bloomberg in 2000. Still speak wire-ese and still in love with the news business.
Inderman
Robert
DA, US, KP
I began with UPI in 1970 after deciding graduate school at the University of Texas was a bore. My first job was in Dallas working with Don Myers as my immediate supervisor.
In 1971 I did a brief stint in Austin covering the Texas Legislature, which was in the midst of the Sharpstown scandal that eventually brought down a governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. But what I remember most was regularly playing on the media basketball team against some legislature teams. Molly Ivins was on the team and we spent many an evening at Schulz's drinking beer in honor of Sissy Farenthold and the Dirty 30.
Back to Dallas for about eight years, reporting, desking and managing the softball team, Dr. Darkness and the Nightwriters. Here's to you Frank Cook, wherever you are, for coming up with the best softball team name of all-times. If only you could have hit the friggin' ball.
In 1979 I moved to Kansas City to work with Jim Wieck, eventually taking over the division editor title when Wieck moved to Dallas. At KC, the single biggest story of my life came and went with the Hyatt crosswalks collapse.
In 1985 on the eve of UPI's first Chapter 11, I moved across the hall as a news director with a Scripps Howard TV station (CH 41), leaving in 1987. Since that period, I have been in public relations and currently am a vice president with Parris Communications Inc. in Kansas City.
Joseloff
Gordon
Albany, NY; New York, NY; London, Moscow
Was a news and photo stringer at Syracuse University 1963-67 and worked summers for UPI in iAlbany, NY in 1964-65 and in London in 1966.
Joined UPI full time in 1967 in New York, working the GNY desk, national desk, and cables. Transferred to London in 1970 where I was overnight news editor until transferred to Moscow in 1972. Remained in Moscow until 1975 and a move back to NY.
Hired by CBS News in 1975 initially in NY as radio and then television newswriter for Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Douglas Edwards, Roger Mudd, etc. In 1979, CBS News sent me back to Moscow where I was correspondent and bureau chief until a move to Tokyo in 1981. I was correspondent, producer, and bureau chief there until 1989 when I returned to New York as a special projects producer. . Left CBS in 1991. In 1993, I launched Cowles/Simba Media Daily, the first online media news daily for Simba Information Inc. Returned to freelancing in 1995 and local volunteer work in Westport, Conn., my hometown. In 2003, I founded WestportNow.com, one of the first hyperlocal news Web sites in the nation. In November 2005, I was elected First Selectman (mayor) of Westport for a four-year term.
Kelley
David
lv, hc
After serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, I moved to Las Vegas in 1973, where I attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I was managing editor and editor of the student newspaper and joined KBMI newsradio as a news writer, anchor and assistant news direcdtor. I joined UPI in 1978 and worked several stints through 1990 in Los Angeles. I was bureau manager in lv through much of the 1980s. I also served as assgnment editor at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas in 1978-79 and 88-89. I also was producer-host of Nevada Week In Review on KLVX-TV in 1987-88. I freelanced in Devner for a number of news organizations in the 1990s. I currently am Vice President and co-owner of Intelligo, Inc., a national consulting firm.
Killen
Patrick
cago, Washington, D.C.
I spent half my time in Asian bureaus and half in the United States, mainly in Chicago and Washington. I finished with 10 years in WA serving as weekend editor, overnight editor and day editor. In Asia I covered coups in Pakistan and the Philippines, Sino-Indian war, Indian=Pakistan wars, the early Marcos years in the Philippines.
Kramer
Karl
SXP, USP, 99, BCP
Lerten
Barney
JO SX SXC
Pacific U. grad, interned my senior year at JO with Billy Joe McFarland, Bobbie Ulrich, etc. - no opening so went to SX Comcenter, then SX bureau for '77-81, returned to JO, there through one bankruptcy, job eliminated in fall of '90, moved to Bend, worked for The Bulletin from 1991-2000, then did news for Bend.com 2000-2005, since early '05 have been with KTVZ (NewsChannel 21) in Bend, now digital content director;-)
Lord
Lewis
jk, mp, ca, nv, aj, wa
Hired in 1955 as part timer at 18 in Jackson. Mentored by John Herbers, H.L. Stevenson and Bill Middlebrooks. Full-timer in '57. Covered Freedom Riders, filibusters, and Ole Miss football. In '62, South Carolina news manager in Columbia. In '66, S.C. sales rep. In '68, Southern Division news editor in Atlanta, in charge of 8-state news operation. In '72, sales rep in Nashville, traveling Tennessee and Mississippi. In '76, news desk in Washington. In 1977, after 22 years with UPI, hired as writer at U.S. News & World Report in Washington. Quarter century there as a "floater," working in every section but News You Can Use. Ran and edited national, foreign, culture and front-of-book sections. In final 10 years with magazine, specialized in writing articles on history. Left staff in 2002 but remained on masthead as a "contributing editor," writing historical pieces from home in Falls Church, Va.
lowry
Bob
Montgomery, Ala.; Austin, Texas
I joined UPI in December 1977 in the two-person Montgomery, Ala,, bureau. I replaced Floyd Norris, who is now a business columnist for The New York Times.
In Montgomery, I covered George Wallace, civil rights marches, KKK violence, state politics and government before becoming the bureau manager in Austin, Texas, in August 1982.
The move to Texas was positive (at first) because all the larger papers were UPI clients and many smaller papers were UPI exclusive clients. Two years into it, however, came news that the company was near financial collapse. I finally resigned in January 1991.
Prior to UPI, I worked for three daily newspapers in Alabama. I am now the Montgomery correspondent for The Huntsville (Ala.) Times, a Newhouse paper.
1970-1980 UPI which became UPCanada. Ottawa Newspictures Manager winner of National Newspaper Award for best feature photo of 1973 ,spent most of the ten years following the Trudeau family around, creating an exhibit that drew 20,000 people to various galleries across the country, put together following the death of Prime Minister PIerre Trudeau. 1980-2007, Ottawa Citizen (Photographer)
Mailloux
Craig
HCP CZP DAP
Joined UPI in Los Angeles (HCP) after the 1960 Dem Convention. Opened the photo bureau in Columbus (CZP) in 1966, returned to HCP in 1969 as an editor. Moved to Dallas (DAP) in 1973 as Division Photo Editor. Left UPI in 1984 for the LA Daily News as Director of Photography and Photo Editor. Left the Daily News for the Ventura County Star as Director of Photography in 2001. Retired in 2005.
Marks
Ted
HF, BH, TKO, HKG, BKK, NX
Started in Hartford in 1968 under Jim Healion, worked in BH for Stan Berens, went to Tokyo as correspondent, then HKG as an Editor, then Bangkok as bureau manager; went back to Tokyo as Manager for North Asia, then to NY as Executive Assistant to Rod Beaton, then to BH as VP for New England; fired by Ruhe and Geissler six months after they took over the place; hired by Knight-Ridder two weeks later, stayed with KRI until 1990 when I founded my own company, Marks & Frederick Associates.
McClelland
Michael
Tallahassee
I'm proud to say I was with UPI's Tallahassee bureau from 1986-89. After that, worked for the monthly Florida Environments mag, then back to school to pursue advanced degrees in creative writing. I'm now an associate professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, teaching creative writing and journalism. Have a couple novels out and am working on more. I do my best to impress on my journalism students the values I learned at UPI -- get it quick, but get it right.
Miller (Segarra)
Tracey
New York City
Covered first World Trade Center Bombing, first reporter to interivew alleged mastermind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, reported on Woody Allen-Mia Farrow custody trial, City Hall during waning days of Dinkins Administration and early days of Giuliani Administration, federal and state courthouse, and many other local and national news stories emanating from NY.
Desk-edited stories from freelancers and frequently contributed to weekly "People" gossip/celebrity news column edited by Val Kuklenski out of L.A.
Moline
Michael
Tallahassee, Fla.
Joined Tallahassee bureau in 1984, left in 1991. Worked as a stringer in San Francisco for a few months after that.
Worked freelance in SF as a legal journalist through 1999, then joined San Francisco Daily Journal, a 5-days-per-week legal newspaper, as associate and then managing editor.
Joined The National Law Journal in August 2005 as an associate editor..
Monaghen
Dale
USP CKP KPP
I was going to school at East Texas State College majoring in photojournalism, visited the UPI Bureau in Dallas, found out of an opening, applied and got a job. I quit school on friday and arrived in Austin on monday to start as bureau assistant in November 1959. I was promoted to photographer in spring of 1960. I was transferred to Little Rock bureau in 1962 and a year later (1963) was transferred to the Kansas City bureau where I stayed until 1976.
morty
dagawitz
nyp
neumeyer
kathleen
los angeles
joined upi in hc 9/1/66. covered trials of sirhan sirhan, charles manson, daniel ellsberg. left in 1973. Worked briefly for los angeles buro in 1986 and 1987 covering entertainment. after upi, was contributing editor of los angeles magazine for 20 years, freelancer to the economist, ladies home journal, mccalls, and others. taught journalism at california state university, northridge parttime for 25 years. edited primetime emmy program and write for emmy magazine. adviser to a high school newspaper judged the best in california for the past four years.
O'Shea
Dennis
hx-sb-tr-wa
I was with UPI for nine years, from 1981 to 1990. Since I left, I have been at The Johns Hopkins University, where I am now executive director of communications and public affairs.
Parker
Jeffrey
NXTTS, NXL, waforn, PEK
UPI 1985-1992 Reuters 1992-2002 (Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei) ILX Media Group, Shanghai, 2002-present, publishing magazines for medical specialists in China and India
Reynolds
Jeffrey
MH, RV, BR, CB, DC, WA/NTL
Joined UPI in MH after several years on newspapers in Florida and Arizona, all but one of which now defunct. Moved to RV in '68, went to BR and CB asMaryland-Delaware editor in '72. Moved to DC in '74 then across the room to the national desk in '82 until retiring in September '93. Returned to work part-time at old job until Sept. '96.
Richards
Charles
Albuquerque, Dallas, Topeka, Austin, Lubbock, Little Rock, New York
I joined UPI as a newsman in Albuquerque in 1964 right out of Texas Tech with bureau chief John McMillian and newsmen Donald Graydon and Don Myers. Four months later, I went into the Army for eight months, then in December 1964 came out of the Army and was a newsman in the Dallas bureau with Preston McGraw, Jack Fallon, Ed Fite, Mike Rabun, Denne Freeman, Bill Hampton. Took a lot of Preston McGraw's dictation on the Jack Ruby trial and from Helen Thomas on her frequent trips to the Texas White House while LBJ was president. I went to Topeka from January to March 1965 to cover the Kansas Senate during a special legislative session, then to the Austin bureau, where I helped cover the Tower Sniper story on Aug. 1, 1966 (that's when Doc Quigg came down. I worked with Kyle Thompson and Larry Little and Terry Young. In September 1966, I became the Lubbock correspondent and UPI sent me to Houston several times for space shots, to Brownsville for Hurricane Beulah and to Santa Fe and Cheyenne to help with legislative coverage. In April 1968, UPI sent me to Little Rock as the bureau chief, working with Cragg Hines and Sylvia Spencer. Then in November 1968 to the New York sports desk, working with Steve Snider, Milton Richman, Joe Carnicelli, Steve Smilanich, Jack Wilkinson, Gary Kale, and others. Left UPI in February 1970 to become managing editor of a semiweekly newspaper in Texas, the Hereford Brand. Joined the AP in October 1977 and spent the next 26 years with Rox, all of it in Dallas except for a year and a half in Washington covering the Texas congressional delegation. Retired in 2003 and now live in Paris, 105 miles northeast of Dallas, where I am mostly retired. I cover the City Council meetings for The Paris News and email in my stories from home.
Schiebeck
Carlos
Los Angeles pictures
started with Acme Newspics Oct.1949 became staff photog in 1952-became HCP bur mgr Oct. 1968-left UPI Oct. 1984,went to work for Agence France Presse in Los Angeles until retiring in 1995.Covered assignments in 18 countries,mostly Latam due to speaking spanish fluently,
Sims
Joseph
Rio de Janeiro
Sims wrote for UPI, Time Magazine, Saturday Review of Literature, the London Daily Telegraph, the Washington Star, Reuters and numerous other publications. He was editor of Latin Trade Magazine, as well as several financial newsletters. He worked in public relations for Pan American World Airways, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Public Securities Association, Manning, Selvage & Lee, Hill and Knowlton and Summit Communications.
Spivak
Alvin
Washington (WA)
Started working for INS in 1949 as newsman in its Harrisburg, PA bureau, covering the state government. Transferred Oct. 1951 to the INS Washington bureau, briefly covering federal regulatory agencies and Treasury and Justice Departments before moving to the Senate staff in December 1951. Moved in 1957 to general assignment and late in that year to White House reporter, until may 1958 when INS was merged with UP into UPI. Worked on night desk and day desk of UPI until JFK was nominated in 1960, when assigned to coverage of his and the Nixon campaign. Post-election, was assigned to White House coverage, working with UPI's Merriman Smith and Helen Thomas until August 1967 when departed UPI to serve as public affairs director for National Advisory Commission on Urban Disorders (the so-called Kerner Commision.) In 1968 worked on the Humphrey presidential campaign as headquarters public affairs director, staying with the Democratic National Committee until early 1970 when joined the General Dynamics Corp. as public affairs director in its Washington office and later its corporate headquarters. Retired in 1994.
Stephens
Glenn
RV, NV, CG, BX, JK, MP, RA
Began career as sports reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville; joined UPI in Richmond in December 1966; left in 1977 in Raleigh, became North Carolina news editor for AP; joined The Birmingham News in 1981, serving as night city editor, state editor and currently(2007) metro editor.
Stracener
William
Atlanta; Columbia, SC; Charleston, SC
Currently, I am licensed in South Carolina and Indiana as a sales representative for Humana, focusing on Medicare Advantage and Supplement plans, annuities and a wide variety of life insurance products. My journalism career began in 1969 as a police reporter for the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, and I joined UPI in 1973 as a general assignment writer in Atlanta. A year later I transferred to Columbia, SC, where I covered the legislature, pro and college sports events and anything else the state editor wanted staffed. In 1980 I became the first manager of UPI's new Charleston, SC, bureau and was responsible for covering major news stories along the coast. My last story was chasing Hurricane Diana up the coast into North Carolina in September 1984. I spent the next three years in Columbia with The Associated Press before being named correspondent for the AP's capital bureau in Springfield, IL. But in 1988 I accepted the position of managing editor of The Beaufort (SC) Gazette where I stayed until mid 1995 when I took a public relations counselor position for eight years with a Hilton Head Island advertising agency, working under a former AP writer. I left the agency at the end of 2003, freelanced for a while and became an insurance agent in 2005.
Sveilis
Emil
Washington, New York, Montreal, Stockholm, Leningrad, USSR, Philadelpha
Was hired as a mortician in WA. Soon went to lcal radio and WCNS. Later occupied the day desk rim on WA and later Late Night editor in WA. Transferred to the NXCbls desk, also was in charge of late night copy. Transferred to Montreal as Canadian News Manager. Transferred to Stockholm as Scandinavian News Manager. Transferred to Leningrad, USSR, as opening bureau manager. Transferred to Philadelphia as Eastern Pennsylvania manager. That was it for UPI.
Whitehurst
Kenneth
jn (Toronto)
Ken Whitehurst is a principal of strategic communications consulting firm Twenty. He is a former editor-in-chief for Metroland North Media, where he led the redesigns of the group's information and e-commerce web sites and of its flagship community newspaper The Barrie Advance and regional lifestyle magazine. For eight years, as a member of the senior management team of mutual fund company Global Strategy Financial Inc.—associated with the N.M. Rothschild Group of companies—he devised and directed that company's innovative media program for investment professionals. Prior to this, Whitehurst was General Manager of Standard Broadcast News, a national broadcast news service operated by Standard Broadcasting Corporation; General Executive and Manager for Canada of United Press International; Communications Manager of United Press Canada; and a reporter and national desk editor for United Press Canada. In 1978, he was a founder of the University of Toronto's independent community newspaper named the newspaper, a student-operated, self-financing weekly which has been in continuous publication on the U of T campus for 30 years.
