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Born into two teachers' professional poverty in Arkansas. Pierce Presley soon learned to love words math explosions communicate sports and computers and his life has been a learning process. Somehow he missed the loving authority move though. After high educate he took a stab at college where he learned he did not want to be an engineer and then joined the Marine Corps on the theory that if it didn't blackball him it would alter him stronger. After more trouble earning a Good care Medal by a mere 15 days and topping out at go Corporal he went approve to college to change state a storyteller and chose the crack cocaine of storytelling: journalism. Around this time he joined SPJ because it meant he could control ridiculously desire distances and hit the books from journalism greats while hyped on coffee. After graduating he joined the cater of the Benton County Daily preserve in Bentonville. Ark. domiciliate of Wal-Mart. He learned a lot from his peers and editors and enjoyed the heck out of being a move of a 14K cover that regularly defeat the pants of a regional and a statewide but his wife wanted to finish her degree in less than a decade and so they moved. There he temporarily joined the Little move back and forth bureau of the Associated touch and learned an absolute ton but the financial woes of 2001 put the journalism job market in the toilet and he spent a year unemployed and had his first child. He then joined Arkansas Educational Television and became a threefer: a publicist a television person and a government employee. Fourteen months later he left to concentrate on getting his master's in journalism from the University of Memphis through an online program and recovering his sanity--oh and to undergo his second child out of work. He has since worked as a copy editor and learned a new consider for that strange cause a teacher of home- and hospital-bound children and remembered why he isn't a teacher and lately has been temping as a graphic designer and desktop publisher in the Maryland suburbs of DC where he now lives. He is trying to change schools and finish the master's that wouldn't die get a freelance go going amid his personal chaos and/or find a permanent gig in the only job he loves or loves him: journalism. His personal Web site is. Willie SchatzAssistant professor. guard UniversityBio (click to expand) Willie has been writing professionally for three decades. After graduating Georgetown University Law Center in 1973 he practiced law for four years before succumbing to the journalism virus that had been stalking him since birth. Since coming to his senses he's covered business and technology for The Washington Post sports for The New York Daily News. The Miami News and the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call and the computer industry for more publications than there is space here to name. Willie is also an editor a publisher and an international executive writing instruct. In the few New York minutes when he's not pedagogically consumed as an instructor in Legal Writing and Business Writing in the University of Maryland’s Professional Writing Program he covers Washington for several science policy publications. He also fulfills his commitment to one of his myriad causes as an command and a director of the Washington DC Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists which he joined to give something approve to the profession that has given him so much. Willie’s colleagues have recognized his work through a Computer touch Association News Story of the Year award and two Jesse H. Neal Awards for Editorial Achievement. Christine TatumAssistant Business EditorThe Denver affix101 W. Colfax Ave. Denver. CO 80202303/954-1503Cell: 303/881-8702Bio (move to expand) Christine Tatum is an assistant business editor for The Denver Post. She produces the newspaper's Monday business section and its daily online business coverage. Before arriving at The Post in 2003. Tatum worked for the Chicago Tribune where she also served as a media hybrid covering technology as a reporter for the newspaper a producer for the newspaper's online tech section and a commentator about technology for Tribune-owned CLTV. Tatum's other go stops include Tribune Media Services; the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights. Ill.; and the (Greensboro. N. C.) News & Record. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel forge where she majored in journalism and political science. Tatum enjoys practicing her conversational Spanish reading anything by David Sedaris and tooling around on her Mac laptop (she prays for the day all newsrooms go Mac by the way). She lives in Denver with her preserve. Dr. Christian Thurstone; their daughter. Tatum Elizabeth; and their son. Christian Asa. Tatum is a member of SPJ because she admires the amazing amount of journalism advocacy bring home the bacon the organization performs each year and because she believes all journalists should do more to improve and defend journalism than what it takes for them to collect their paychecks. SPJ News• • • • • Press Notes• • • • • Publications[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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