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| History of the City Desk |
Editor's Service and its story idea newsletter "Hints for the City Desk" was started in 1948 by the Editor of the Lorain Daily Journal, Frank Maloy (bn. 1900),
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| Lorain Daily Journal circa 1930s. |
who first began distribution of his journalism newsletter among a small group of Ohio newspapers. It grew quickly from there to encompass all 50 states. It currently is used by hundreds of newspapers, radio and TV stations.
Its emphasis has always been on local news first and foremost patterned after Frank Maloy's experience of running the local newspaper in Lorain, Ohio.
Lorain is a steel and manufacturing town situated on Lake Erie, 30 miles to the west of Cleveland, and was home to Frank?s son Richard Maloy (b. 1924) who worked in the steel mills and ship yard during the summer, left the University of Michigan to fight in WWII, not returning to school until 1948. Dick Maloy went on to work in the news field for more than half a century, retiring finally in the 1990s as the head of Thomson Newspapers Washington Bureau, at that time representing more than 120 small and midsize dailies. His long career in journalism included the Lorain Daily Journal, the Detroit Free Press, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post and the National Journal.
Throughout his journalism career he continued to produce "City Desk" and expand its subscriber list, always keeping the focus of the newsletter on local news.
Dick Maloy handed over the reins of "City Desk" in 2000 to his son T.K. Maloy, who had been moonlighting as a "Hints" writer ever since starting off as a small-town reporter at the Hanover Evening Sun in Hanover, Pa., a factory and farm town near Gettysburg. Hanover is famous for everything from its pretzels and potato chips to canned vegetables produced by Hanover Brand foods. The surrounding farm country is populated with dairy farms and orchards.
All three editors of "City Desk? have brought to this ongoing journalistic endeavor a solid news background and an understanding of the importance of local news.
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| Editor-in-Chief, T.K. Maloy |
T.K. Maloy is an experienced journalist, publisher, university faculty member, and book author.
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| Richard and T.K. Maloy. |
Maloy recently left the senior editorial staff of United Press International (June 07) where he served as the Business and Economics Editor, acting as an assignment editor and coordinator for the company's U.S. and global business staff, columnists, and freelance stringers. He also served as a senior business writer, covering major corporate action, U.S financial markets, Capitol Hill, the federal agencies, and specialized in coverage of the high-tech and biotechnology industry business sectors.
He was previously the editor-owner of The Internet Newsroom, a newsletter for information professionals who use the Internet for research. This publication was sold in November 2000 to Bergman Publications, Richmond, Va.
Mr. Maloy is also a longtime member of the adjunct journalism faculty at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., where he teaches Internet-communications-related subjects and also teaches basic news writing and Washington reporting. He has authored two books about the Internet: "The Writer's Internet Handbook" and "The Internet Research Guide." He is currently working on a book under the working title of "Digital Unlimited" a study of business and personal communications in the 21st century online world. Maloy has also conducted abroad teaching as a visiting lecturer for the USIA in Sri Lanka and Gaza/West Bank.
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| T.K.Maloy on feature assignment -- about to skydive over Hanover, Pa. |
Born July 13, 1960 in Washington, D.C., he graduated from George Washington University and worked briefly in the field of international affairs before entering journalism, the third generation of his family to do so. He learned his journalism trade the traditional way, by working as a small-town and regional reporter where he covered courts, cops, city hall, and local personalities. This was followed by stints as a Washington correspondent and as a financial writer covering Wall Street in New York City.
He was the 1999/2000 chairperson of the National Press Club high-technology committee and the creator of the NPC CyberCocktail Lecture Series, a regular panel forum touching upon technology topics.
Mr. Maloy resides in the Washington area where he owns a house in Glen Echo, Maryland.
tkmaloy@citydesk.org
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| Associate Editor, Dar Haddix |
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| Dar in a rare moment away from her I-Mac. |
Dar Haddix, writer, editor and entrepreneur, came to Washington several years ago looking to escape the harsh winters and extortionist tax rates of Chicago.
She cut her journalistic teeth by first working at a local Virginia weekly and eventually rose to Deputy Business Editor at the Washington, D.C. office of the venerable wire service United Press International, where she has written about a variety of topics from Russia's emerging economy to the effects of Sarbanes Oxley. She has also spent time on the pharmaceutical beat for a trade newsletter.
Ms. Haddix has published fiction and poetry, co-edited a literary magazine, Hair Trigger, and helped research one of the Center for Public Integrity's presidential campaign finance exposes, The Buying of the President 2004.
She earned her bachelor's in fiction writing from Columbia College of Chicago, and her master's degree in public policy and print journalism at American University. She currently is finishing her first novel.
dhaddix@citydesk.org
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