Paul Iorio
Berkeley, California
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Writer/reporter/photographer whose multiple scoops for major publications over decades have helped to shape the pop culture landscape. A very recent shift toward documentary film making has already yielded success.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS/OUTLETS, INCLUDING LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS, HUFFPOST, BEAT SCENE, KALX RADIO, OTHERS
Freelance Writer/Filmmaker/Songwriter.
2007 to present
Original documentary film "The Last Recordings of Richard Pryor," featuring exclusive, unreleased recordings of Pryor's very last full-length concert (unavailable anywhere else), completed in 2021; currently negotiating a platform for it. Doc produced, directed, scripted, narrated, edited by Paul Iorio.
Original documentary film "The Lost Ferlinghetti Tapes" -- produced, directed, scripted, narrated and edited by Paul Iorio -- exhibited in London as part of a Lawrence Ferlinghetti exhibition by the U.K.'s National Poetry Library (October through November 2019). The documentary, created by Iorio in April and May of 2018, was also published by the Los Angeles Review of Books in June 2018. Here is a link to the film in its entirety:
U.K. literary magazine Beat Scene published the transcript of my landmark interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti in late 2016, devoting 20 pages of the magazine to the interview. The magazine does not have an online edition, but here is a link to a scan of what the magazine published:
My original published reportage, research and writing on the making of the film "Chinatown" was cited and quoted in author Sam Wasson's book "The Big Goodbye," which was published in February 2020 and is now being made into a film by the actor/director Ben Affleck. Here is a link to scanned pages of the book that show the nine instances in which my work was cited:
Original documentary film "What Roman Told Me About Charlie" (2019) -- featuring excerpts from my exclusive interview with Roman Polanski -- self-released on YouTube; it currently has over 30,000 views. Produced, directed, scripted, narrated and edited by Paul Iorio.
Wrote and reported stories on a regular basis for The Huffington Post (August 2011 to 2018). Contributed original photographs to The Huffington Post (2011 to 2018). Wrote analysis piece that showed the reasons why it was clear that Jussie Smollett was lying about having been attacked; I submitted the piece to multiple editors on February 7, 2019, when almost nobody thought my view was correct; the story was rejected by major publications that were later proved wrong about the incident. Wrote book on 1990s cinema (2014-2015); not yet published. Wrote and reported story on WikiLeaks for The Boston Phoenix, 2012. Wrote and reported stories on North Korea for The Seoul Times newspaper (June 2009). Wrote and reported stories for the online edition of Playboy magazine (April - June, 2009).
My music videos were officially and formally banned by the government of Pakistan, citing its blasphemy laws, on January 5, 2021. paul iorio's music videos banned by Pakistani government.
Outside of journalism, I have continued to write songs prolifically; to date, nearly 100 of my original compositions have been aired by radio stations from Berkeley to Berlin, including on leading alternative stations like WFMU, KCRW and KALX. On May 20, 2019, KALX Radio in Berkeley, California, aired two of my new songs, "Perfect Man" and "Born in 2001." Those two tracks brought the total number of original songs by Paul Iorio played on KALX to at least 83. Here is a video that compiles some of the radio shows that have featured those songs: songs by paul iorio aired on the radio from 2006 to 2019.
My music videos were officially and formally banned by the government of Pakistan, citing its blasphemy laws, on January 5, 2021. paul iorio's music videos banned by Pakistani government.
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THE WASHINGTON POST, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, PEOPLE MAGAZINE, THE BOSTON PHOENIX, NEW TIMES, AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, THE TORONTO STAR, PLAYBOY, REUTERS
Freelance writer/reporter/photographer (see specific dates for each publication, below)
2001 to 2006
Wrote satirical piece for The Chicago Tribune (2006). Wrote and reported breaking news story for The Boston Phoenix that revealed new information about the Virginia Tech massacre (April 20, 2007). Originated a website, The Daily Digression, that features my own original reporting about pop culture and other subjects (2006 to present).
Contributed reporting to People magazine (issue of Feb. 7, 2005). Independently investigated terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki's federal copyright records and found indications that suggest he might have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks (9/04 to 4/05); both the JTFF and the FBI have taken my findings seriously enough to have carried out their own investigations based on my research; I ultimately self-published the story (and here is a link to it: my investigation of al-Awlaki's copyright records. }
Wrote several chapters of a book-length biography of comedian Richard Pryor for literary agent Jane Dystel of Dystel and Goderich Agency (2005; currently developing it and other book projects without D and G representation).
Wrote and reported feature story for the Cox newspaper syndicate (7/18/04); it was originally published in The Austin American-Statesman and was picked up by Cox. Wrote and reported feature story for New Times (December 2003, for the Miami paper). Wrote, reported and researched exclusive music news story for Reuters's Los Angeles bureau (April to June 2003). Wrote a television feature involving extensive Internet research for The Toronto Star's Arts and Entertainment section (1/03); it is the first story anywhere to have covered (in detail) the immediate television coverage of the first two plane crashes on 9/11. Wrote non-fiction book, "Conversations with Reclusive Geniuses (and Other Stories)," from January to September 2003 (unpublished).
Wrote, reported, researched and initiated feature stories for The Washington Post's Travel section, including a story involving foreign reporting (I reported from Mexico) and section front-page stories (2001 to 2003).
At least seven of my original photographs were published in The Washington Post (2001, 2002); all ideas for stories I wrote for The Washington Post, usually mixing pop culture and travel, came from me.
In 2003, New Times published my interview with Phish's Trey Anastasio, which I conducted in the last week of January 1989, making it the first recorded interview with Anastasio. In the one-on-one Q&A, one can clearly hear me introducing him to the band Widespread Panic, who (with Phish) would later form the core of the immensely popular Jam Band movement of the Nineties. Here is a link to an excerpt from that pivotal 1989 conversation: paul iorio becomes the first to interview Trey Anastasio and introduces him to Widespread Panic
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (San Francisco)
Staff Writer and Reporter
May 2000 to January 2001
Wrote, reported and initiated features and news stories on television and movies, as well as on books, pop culture and the theater, usually under tight deadlines. Conducted daily interviews with entertainment and other public figures. Reported breaking news. My published one-on-one interview with poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti revealed new details about the Beat literary movement (10/00; story still widely circulated on the Internet). It has since become a landmark work about the Beats in academic circles and, in subsequent years, became required reading at Ivy League universities like the University of Pennsylvania and at prestigious institutions worldwide such as the University of Auckland in New Zealand. It has been cited in Jonah Raskin's acclaimed book "American Scream." The 2000 interview that I conducted (that formed the basis of the story I wrote) has since become a part of an original documentary called "The Lost Ferlinghetti Tapes" that has been exhibited in London by the National Poetry Library and was published by the Los Angeles Review of Books in 2018. The transcript of my 2000 interview was ultimately published by U.K. literary magazine Beat Scene, which devoted 20 pages to it.
Covered the television critics "tour" of new programs in Pasadena (7/00). Was one of the first writers anywhere to have proposed a story about the CBS blockbuster C.S.I. before the series aired (an editor vetoed the idea). I had a zero percent correction rate during my four years at The Chronicle and never once missed a deadline. [A letter of recommendation from my main editor at The Chronicle (a senior editor), written after working with me for three years in '00, read in part: "Paul has an original way of approaching a story. His writing rarely needs much editing. And best of all, he is completely reliable."] Here is a link to that letter of recommendation: Letter of recommendation from senior editor at S.F. Chronicle.
Promoted from freelance writer to staff writer in the spring of 2000.
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REUTERS, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEW TIMES LOS ANGELES, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (reporting from Los Angeles)
Freelance writer/reporter/photographer
June 1996 to May 2000
From Los Angeles, I broke many significant entertainment stories as a freelance writer/reporter. For Reuters, I covered several high profile trials, including one involving O.J. Simpson (who I memorably asked, face to face, "Have you had any luck finding your wife's murderer?"). Here is a piece I later wrote for The Huffington Post about my Simpson coverage: the day I confronted O.J. Simpson as a Reuters reporter.
Other trials I covered for Reuters involved Carroll O'Connor and Pamela Anderson Lee and my reports were translated for publication into several languages.
For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote, reported and initiated four features (that ran on 1/3/98, 9/1/98 and 7/8/99). Through my own connections, I was able to land a rare interview with film director Roman Polanski for The Los Angeles Times, resulting in a popular two-part article on the making of the film "Chinatown" (7/8/99). The articles also included my interview with Robert Evans, who rarely granted interviews. A senior editor at the newspaper told me that the stories generated greater reader response than any other article that had appeared in that section to date.
My feature for the Los Angeles Times on actor Troy Garity, scion of the Fonda family, was the first story published anywhere about him. It ran on September 1, 1998, on the front page of the Times' Calendar section.
And my story on the rise of comic book movies is often cited in film circles as the first to define a genre that has since taken over the top commercial tier of the industry. Published in the L.A. Times on January 3, 1998.
My story for The San Francisco Chronicle in April 1997 broke the story of Anne Heche's relationship with Ellen DeGeneres; my scoop happened after I witnessed the two of them kissing in Beverly Hills while I was waiting at a bus stop. My subsequent interview with Heche marked the first time she had spoken publicly about DeGeneres. Here is a link to the article and to a story about how I broke the story: How I Broke the Heche-DeGeneres Story of 1997.
I was the only reporter to have covered what turned out to be the last two (of all time) full length performances by Richard Pryor, which took place at the Comedy Store on July 17, 1996 and July 24, 1996. My subsequent story, on Pryor in his fading years, was a successful cover story for New Times Los Angeles. I conducted the last known recorded interview with Richard Pryor, July 31, 1996.
Through cold calling, I was able to land a very rare interview with director M. Night Shyamalan in 1999 -- days BEFORE the release of his breakthrough blockbuster "The Sixth Sense." To this day, it is the only interview with the director about "The Sixth Sense" conducted before its release. Interviewed other film makers who rarely talk to the press, including David Fincher and Woody Allen.
Contributed original photography to the San Francisco Chronicle. Designed and scripted a practical movie game board that ran in the newspaper. Initiated many story ideas for the paper.
Covered the movie industry's main Oscar night parties (in '99 and '00) for The San Francisco Chronicle.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, SPY MAGAZINE, DETAILS MAGAZINE (New York)
Freelance Writer/Reporter
1988 to 1996
Wrote and initiated feature stories for The New York Times' Arts and Leisure section (1/95 to 4/95 and 6/94) on cinema. One story was widely syndicated in major newspapers; another was republished in the German weekly magazine Die Woche. Wrote and reported an article for The Washington Post's Style section on movies that involved interviewing numerous physicians and medical professionals (October 1994). Penned religious satire (involving almost a year of extensive reporting) for Details magazine (October 1994).
Wrote and reported articles for both the old and new Spy magazine (1988 to 1995) on a free ranging field of subjects, including pop music, movies, politics, book publishing and fraudulent colleges. Wrote both humorous pieces and investigative articles involving tracking down obscure court records. Invented the popular "Dylan-o-Matic," by which people can create their own Bob Dylan lyrics (1993). My contracted reporting on Bruce Springsteen in 1988 and 1989 was ultimately used in a Spy book. I wrote and reported for Spy under written contracts that spanned the following periods: 10/88 to 3/89; 6/91 to 8/91; 8/92 to 10/92; 9/93 to 12/93; 8/94 to 2/95. Also wrote for the Publications Department at Queens College in New York City (1995/1996).
THE WASHINGTON POST, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, PEOPLE MAGAZINE, THE BOSTON PHOENIX, NEW TIMES, AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, THE TORONTO STAR, PLAYBOY, REUTERS
Freelance writer/reporter/photographer (see specific dates for each publication, below)
2001 to 2006
Wrote satirical piece for The Chicago Tribune (2006). Wrote and reported breaking news story for The Boston Phoenix that revealed new information about the Virginia Tech massacre (April 20, 2007). Originated a website, The Daily Digression, that features my own original reporting about pop culture and other subjects (2006 to present).
Contributed reporting to People magazine (issue of Feb. 7, 2005). Independently investigated terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki's federal copyright records and found indications that suggest he might have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks (9/04 to 4/05); both the JTFF and the FBI have taken my findings seriously enough to have carried out their own investigations based on my research; I ultimately self-published the story (and here is a link to it: my investigation of al-Awlaki's copyright records. }
Wrote several chapters of a book-length biography of comedian Richard Pryor for literary agent Jane Dystel of Dystel and Goderich Agency (2005; currently developing it and other book projects without D and G representation).
Wrote and reported feature story for the Cox newspaper syndicate (7/18/04); it was originally published in The Austin American-Statesman and was picked up by Cox. Wrote and reported feature story for New Times (December 2003, for the Miami paper). Wrote, reported and researched exclusive music news story for Reuters's Los Angeles bureau (April to June 2003). Wrote a television feature involving extensive Internet research for The Toronto Star's Arts and Entertainment section (1/03); it is the first story anywhere to have covered (in detail) the immediate television coverage of the first two plane crashes on 9/11. Wrote non-fiction book, "Conversations with Reclusive Geniuses (and Other Stories)," from January to September 2003 (unpublished).
Wrote, reported, researched and initiated feature stories for The Washington Post's Travel section, including a story involving foreign reporting (I reported from Mexico) and section front-page stories (2001 to 2003).
At least seven of my original photographs were published in The Washington Post (2001, 2002); all ideas for stories I wrote for The Washington Post, usually mixing pop culture and travel, came from me.
In 2003, New Times published my interview with Phish's Trey Anastasio, which I conducted in the last week of January 1989, making it the first recorded interview with Anastasio. In the one-on-one Q&A, one can clearly hear me introducing him to the band Widespread Panic, who (with Phish) would later form the core of the immensely popular Jam Band movement of the Nineties. Here is a link to an excerpt from that pivotal 1989 conversation: paul iorio becomes the first to interview Trey Anastasio and introduces him to Widespread Panic
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (San Francisco)
Staff Writer and Reporter
May 2000 to January 2001
Wrote, reported and initiated features and news stories on television and movies, as well as on books, pop culture and the theater, usually under tight deadlines. Conducted daily interviews with entertainment and other public figures. Reported breaking news. My published one-on-one interview with poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti revealed new details about the Beat literary movement (10/00; story still widely circulated on the Internet). It has since become a landmark work about the Beats in academic circles and, in subsequent years, became required reading at Ivy League universities like the University of Pennsylvania and at prestigious institutions worldwide such as the University of Auckland in New Zealand. It has been cited in Jonah Raskin's acclaimed book "American Scream." The 2000 interview that I conducted (that formed the basis of the story I wrote) has since become a part of an original documentary called "The Lost Ferlinghetti Tapes" that has been exhibited in London by the National Poetry Library and was published by the Los Angeles Review of Books in 2018. The transcript of my 2000 interview was ultimately published by U.K. literary magazine Beat Scene, which devoted 20 pages to it.
Covered the television critics "tour" of new programs in Pasadena (7/00). Was one of the first writers anywhere to have proposed a story about the CBS blockbuster C.S.I. before the series aired (an editor vetoed the idea). I had a zero percent correction rate during my four years at The Chronicle and never once missed a deadline. [A letter of recommendation from my main editor at The Chronicle (a senior editor), written after working with me for three years in '00, read in part: "Paul has an original way of approaching a story. His writing rarely needs much editing. And best of all, he is completely reliable."] Here is a link to that letter of recommendation: Letter of recommendation from senior editor at S.F. Chronicle.
Promoted from freelance writer to staff writer in the spring of 2000.
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REUTERS, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEW TIMES LOS ANGELES, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (reporting from Los Angeles)
Freelance writer/reporter/photographer
June 1996 to May 2000
From Los Angeles, I broke many significant entertainment stories as a freelance writer/reporter. For Reuters, I covered several high profile trials, including one involving O.J. Simpson (who I memorably asked, face to face, "Have you had any luck finding your wife's murderer?"). Here is a piece I later wrote for The Huffington Post about my Simpson coverage: the day I confronted O.J. Simpson as a Reuters reporter.
Other trials I covered for Reuters involved Carroll O'Connor and Pamela Anderson Lee and my reports were translated for publication into several languages.
For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote, reported and initiated four features (that ran on 1/3/98, 9/1/98 and 7/8/99). Through my own connections, I was able to land a rare interview with film director Roman Polanski for The Los Angeles Times, resulting in a popular two-part article on the making of the film "Chinatown" (7/8/99). The articles also included my interview with Robert Evans, who rarely granted interviews. A senior editor at the newspaper told me that the stories generated greater reader response than any other article that had appeared in that section to date.
My feature for the Los Angeles Times on actor Troy Garity, scion of the Fonda family, was the first story published anywhere about him. It ran on September 1, 1998, on the front page of the Times' Calendar section.
And my story on the rise of comic book movies is often cited in film circles as the first to define a genre that has since taken over the top commercial tier of the industry. Published in the L.A. Times on January 3, 1998.
My story for The San Francisco Chronicle in April 1997 broke the story of Anne Heche's relationship with Ellen DeGeneres; my scoop happened after I witnessed the two of them kissing in Beverly Hills while I was waiting at a bus stop. My subsequent interview with Heche marked the first time she had spoken publicly about DeGeneres. Here is a link to the article and to a story about how I broke the story: How I Broke the Heche-DeGeneres Story of 1997.
I was the only reporter to have covered what turned out to be the last two (of all time) full length performances by Richard Pryor, which took place at the Comedy Store on July 17, 1996 and July 24, 1996. My subsequent story, on Pryor in his fading years, was a successful cover story for New Times Los Angeles. I conducted the last known recorded interview with Richard Pryor, July 31, 1996.
Through cold calling, I was able to land a very rare interview with director M. Night Shyamalan in 1999 -- days BEFORE the release of his breakthrough blockbuster "The Sixth Sense." To this day, it is the only interview with the director about "The Sixth Sense" conducted before its release. Interviewed other film makers who rarely talk to the press, including David Fincher and Woody Allen.
Contributed original photography to the San Francisco Chronicle. Designed and scripted a practical movie game board that ran in the newspaper. Initiated many story ideas for the paper.
Covered the movie industry's main Oscar night parties (in '99 and '00) for The San Francisco Chronicle.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, SPY MAGAZINE, DETAILS MAGAZINE (New York)
Freelance Writer/Reporter
1988 to 1996
Wrote and initiated feature stories for The New York Times' Arts and Leisure section (1/95 to 4/95 and 6/94) on cinema. One story was widely syndicated in major newspapers; another was republished in the German weekly magazine Die Woche. Wrote and reported an article for The Washington Post's Style section on movies that involved interviewing numerous physicians and medical professionals (October 1994). Penned religious satire (involving almost a year of extensive reporting) for Details magazine (October 1994).
Wrote and reported articles for both the old and new Spy magazine (1988 to 1995) on a free ranging field of subjects, including pop music, movies, politics, book publishing and fraudulent colleges. Wrote both humorous pieces and investigative articles involving tracking down obscure court records. Invented the popular "Dylan-o-Matic," by which people can create their own Bob Dylan lyrics (1993). My contracted reporting on Bruce Springsteen in 1988 and 1989 was ultimately used in a Spy book. I wrote and reported for Spy under written contracts that spanned the following periods: 10/88 to 3/89; 6/91 to 8/91; 8/92 to 10/92; 9/93 to 12/93; 8/94 to 2/95. Also wrote for the Publications Department at Queens College in New York City (1995/1996).
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EAST COAST ROCKER NEWSPAPER (N.Y.)
Staff Writer/ReporterAugust 1987 to January 1990
Wrote weekly news, features and essays on pop music and the entertainment industry for Arts Weekly's two publications: The East Coast Rocker and Downtown. It was during this period that I conducted the first ever interview with Trey Anastasio of Phish, though I did it as an unaffiliated freelancer. In July 1989, my article for the East Coast Rocker on the pop music scene in Burlington, Vermont, was the first published story (outside of Phish's hometown area of Burlington) to have mentioned Phish; that story was also notable for including my write-up of a little-known politician named Bernie Sanders (published on July 10, 1989). Also wrote stories on movies for New York Newsday (1/93; 2/92 to 3/92; 7/92 to 8/92). Scripted music news for Tel-Star TV, a syndicated music video television series (Fall seasons of '89 and '90). Contributed music reviews and features to The Street magazine (3/89 to 3/90). Wrote news story for The Village Voice (2/88) that was later picked up by New Musical Express in the U.K. and other publications. Wrote and reported multiple feature stories of Hits magazine (1988 and 1989).
Investigated a murder in the music industry for both The Village Voice and for CBS's "Sixty Minutes" in 1989 and 1990; in the course of the investigation, I uncovered widespread corruption in the compilation of music sales charts at music trade Cash Box and elsewhere; my theory on the murder, based on first-hand interviews I conducted and deep research, was proved to be completely correct a decade later in a court of law; but my story ultimately remained unpublished because key sources backed out.
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CASH BOX MAGAZINE (N.Y.)
Staff Writer/Reporter
August 1985 to August 1987
Wrote and reported news, features and a weekly column on pop music and the entertainment business, with emphasis on emerging music acts. Was first reporter at any trade publication to write about several unsigned performers who later became successful (such as They Might Be Giants, The Smithereens and Michelle Shocked) and wrote the first magazine pieces anywhere on Paul Simon's "Graceland" and other hit albums. Conducted an interview with Fela Kuti that was his first after being released from
Paul McCartney and me at Radio City Music Hall in August 1986, an event I covered for Cash Box.
prison, did a Q and A with XTC's Andy Partridge (rare at the time), and interviewed pop culture figures ranging from Frank Zappa and Bill Graham to Ray Davies, Joseph Shabalala (of Ladysmith Black Mambazo) and Don Johnson. (Incidentally, some techie rigged up our computers at the Cash Box offices so that we could use email in 1986; we called it modem-ing at the time (and were amazed at how much it saved us in Fed Ex costs!)
I was featured in stories that ran in USA Today in 1986 and 1987 and that quoted me as an expert on pop music.
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MERRILL LYNCH AND CO. (N.Y.)
Staff Corporate Communications Writer (final position at company in '84'85)
January 1982 to July 1985
Wrote and researched articles for home office house organs and newsletters at the firm's international headquarters (Sept. '84 to July '85). Contributed photography to ML publications. Started at ML in Business Planning Dept. (1/82 to 8/84, but full-time from 8/83) as an assistant, until I was promoted to writer in '84.
During this period, I also did freelance writing, penning satire for New York's East Village Eye newspaper ('81 to '84) and for The Aquarian Weekly ('82).
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DELL PUBLISHING CO. (N.Y.)
Delacorte Publicity Dept. -- 8/80 to 10/81
Staff Assistant position also involved writing press releases, book synopses and author bios. [Moved to New York City in June 1979; held various interim positions in NY before landing the job at Dell.]
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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE (FL)
Staff Editorial Assistant -- 1/79 to 6/79
Assistant spot also involved compilation and minor editing of news briefs.
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EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Gainesville
B.A., philosophy, high honors, 1979.
Philosophy studies emphasized aesthetics and phenomenology. Participated in creative writing program ('76 to '78), studying under novelists such as Harry Crews, while producing short stories. Because I scored high on the CLEP exams, I earned advanced placement credits and was able to earn my four year degree several months early; hence, my graduation ceremony was in December 1978, but my diploma was formally given to me a month later, in January 1979, so I use 1979 as my final graduation date.
FLORENCE, ITALY, OVERSEAS STUDY PROGRAM, 1976
Studied Renaissance art history and classical art in Florence, Italy, for six months in 1976; visited eleven countries, including Iron Curtain nations Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, as I traveled alone by local train from Florence to Istanbul and back. (Here's a video I made that details my travels behind the Iron Curtain:
I traveled unaccompanied behind the Iron Curtain as a teenager in 1976..
My formal study of classical Greece involved traveling to Crete and obscure areas of Greece. (The Florence, Italy, Overseas Study Program was a longstanding academic program that emanated from Florida State University in Tallahassee. For the record, Florida State University is not to be confused with the (far superior) University of Florida at Gainesville, from which I earned my B.A.)
A photo of me in 1976 in Florence, Italy, where I studied as an undergraduate for six months that year.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS BEFORE COLLEGE (pre-1975)
I was an elected student politician and community activist who organized both student-level and community-wide political activity from age 11 (when I solely initiated and organized a cafeteria boycott) to 17 (when I was elected student council president). I was even covered contemporaneously in newspapers, including in the main newspaper of my hometown, The Tampa (Florida) Tribune, most notably in 1974. Many decades later, I discovered that an activist group that advocated the impeachment of president Nixon that I had been a part of -- and for which I had been quoted as a spokesperson in a published article that appeared in The Tampa Tribune on March 31, 1974 -- had been illegally infiltrated by FBI agents who were posing as activists. This was confirmed by The New York Times in a story than ran on February 24, 1975. I wrote about this and documented it in 2018: My Activist Group Was Illegally Infiltrated by the FBI in 1974.
Graduated from C. Leon King High School in Tampa, Florida, 1975.
Attended St. Michael's Country Day School in Florence, Italy, (now called The International School of Florence) for middle school, 1970.
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POST SCRIPT: Please note that, in the early years of my career, I worked at numerous interim or temporary jobs that lasted around a week or so -- jobs that I did to quickly pay outstanding bills while waiting for my freelance writing checks to arrive. I frankly have not kept a record of those short-term positions from decades ago -- and so they are not included in this c.v.
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