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@AP journalist (ret), reported from, led coverage of ~100 countries & numerous wars. Virginia Tech, U Maryland-Munich. Husband, Dad. Author of Target: Facebook
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I am retiring at the end of September after more than 40 years as a journalist, 39 with
@AP
. It's been wonderful. I worked overseas for 25 years, 7 in Oregon. Thanks to everyone I interviewed.
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I wrote thousands of stories at
@AP
. This is probably my last one, unless I do one tomorrow. Sayonara. It's been a great ride.
#wine
#wildfires
Inside scientists' mission to save America’s wine industry from climate change
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Minor anniversary: 38 straight years with
@AP
today. Amazing. And that's not counting two earlier temp stints in Cheyenne and LA. Very grateful for all that I have experienced, or for most of it anyway.
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The only thing still valid in this tarnished business-card holder after some 20 years is my email address. And I’m still with
@AP
.
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34 years of continuous service with
@AP
today. It's been amazing. Here I am in the Tegucigalpa bureau, a year after I got hired. That is a Telex machine that I used to file dispatches, with some Telex tape peaking out of the trash can. Times have changed.
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Esteemed
@AP
colleagues
@ByManuelValdes
and
@GeneAPseattle
celebrate their longevity in The Associated Press. A combined 35 years. Great teammates and colleagues! Photo by
@gflaccus
.
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#TBThursday
@AP
bureau in Kansas City, Mo., in the late 1980s. At the terminal is newswoman Sally Buzbee (now
@washingtonpost
executive editor). From left: Assistant Chief of Bureau Mercer Bailey, newsman Tim Curran, unidentified newsman.
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Is affordable, accessible health care a human right to be enshrined in a state Constitution? Oregon decides that in this election.
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Firefighters using air assets were battling a fire near Salem, Oregon this evening. I even left watching the
@usopen
to go out and make some photos.
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I'm cleaning out photo cache from laptop. Here's photographer Danilo Garcia and me at the
@AP
bureau in Managua, Nicaragua. 1986-7.
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These original
@GratefulDead
concert posters are on display in Willamette U's art museum in Salem Oregon.
@fat_man_rocks
Long, strange trip
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What a great team. Ricardo Mazalan (l), Jim Anderson and Vivian Sequera during our coup coverage in Venezuela. Jim had ordered the
@AP
bureau evacuated of non-essential personnel amid reports the building was going to be attacked by a mob. We stayed and kept filing.
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Bartender’s name was Cassidy. I asked her if her parents were Grateful Dead fans. Yep! She said she was named for the song
@fat_man_rocks
@GratefulDead
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@Stephen__Stills
I saw you with Manassas at the University of Virginia in 1972 or 1973. Great concert! Photo taken then by my brother
@PSelsky
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4 billion people see news from
@AP
every day. 243 locations worldwide in 96 countries; unrivaled 50-state footprint with a reporter in every U.S. statehouse. 2021 output: 440,000 stories, 1 million photos, 82,000 news & sports videos, more than 23,000 hours of live video.
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A gripping account of the
#Lahaina
fire as it happened, by
@clairegalofaro
@Sedensky
, with feeds from a few of us other
@AP
reporters.
They were alone in a fight to survive. Maui residents had moments to make life-or-death choices
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Wow. Is Oregon putting its money where its mouth is, on being a "green" state? New report raises questions. “The state exposes Oregonians to climate and health risks, economic costs, and financial losses.”
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37 years ago this month. I was a lowly paid (but delighted to have the job) local-hire AP reporter/photographer in Nicaragua when what became the biggest story in the world at the time landed in my lap.
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Terrible, sad, awful. Will someone be brought to justice for these atrocities?
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Last night I saw a man lying motionless on a tennis court. I could tell it was serious and went to him quickly. With a buddy who's an Afghan war vet we gave CPR. The man's alive in hospital, though unconscious. I learned CPR at training for war correspondents. Thank God.
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After more than a year of negotiating, I'm wearing red this morning as part of
@APNewsGuild
's fight for a
#fairAPcontract
.
#WeAreAP
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Two old friends. Peter Morgan and me in 1986, while on long-range patrol with a Sandinista Irregular Warfare Battalion in Nicaragua. And in 2023, while walking around Manhattan yesterday.
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Say hello to Ringo. We got him 13 years ago from the SPCA shelter in Midrand, South Africa. He is the best. Still going strong.
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“I personally couldn’t continue to provide tithing money to a church that would allow young children to be abused and not do anything to prevent it.” Stellar reporting on horrible situation, by
@MikeRezendes
of
@AP
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Forty years ago I got my first real break in journalism. I had spent all my savings earned on a seismographic oil exploration crew in Wyoming as I looked for a job at a daily newspaper in CO, AZ, NM and Texas. Down to my last pennies, I slept in my car before a job interview at a
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The Journalist vets of Central America has learned that photographer Murry Sill has died. Lots of people respected him. Here is his photo of photographer Harry Mattison trying to save photographer Olivier Rebbot after he was mortality wounded in El Salvador. RIP Mr. Sill.
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@ArisMessinis
Jesus. That got my heart racing, even from watching it in a safe place. I hope you and your traveling companions stay safe.
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Darya Dugin: Daughter of Putin ally killed in Moscow bomb - report
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Texas daily. I washed my face and shaved in the courthouse bathroom the next morning. Luckily, I got the job. Persistence paid off. It wasn't the first time nor the last time that it did. I hope everybody else reaches their dreams.
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Come on
@AP
! It’s time to come up with a fair contract proposal for
@APNewsGuild
. Better wages and parental rights for those who are the force behind the world’s best news organization.
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“The big lie is that the 2020 election was stolen,” says Oregon's secretary of state. “The lie is still impacting the operations of our elections workers, nearly two years later.”
#Election2022
#orpol
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Reagan told Gorbachev: In the US we have freedom. A crowd can gather outside the White House and shout "Down with Reagan!" Gorbachev replied: In Russia we also have freedom. A crowd can gather outside the Kremlin and shout "Down with Reagan!" (Old joke from the 80s).
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Historical note: 40 years ago my Mom's cousin Vera Watson participated in the all-women's climb of Annapurna. Team leader raised funds by selling "a woman's place is on top" T-shirts, which were hugely popular. Vera died but her memory lives on.
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Great story on psilocybin by
@lwhitehurst
Magic mushrooms for PTSD therapy? Vets find it helps. It’s getting bipartisan backing.
@AP
story and photos.
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The
@nytimes
published my
@AP_Images
photo, um, let's see (quick math calculation), 37 years ago.
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These are my heroes:
@VasilisaUKR
@mstyslav9
@EMaloletka
They covered the siege and destruction of Mariupol, Ukraine by invading Russian forces, making the world aware of tragic events there.
@AP
's light burns very bright.
#UkraineWar
#journalism
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Crossing a river in Honduras while reporting on anti-Sandinista indigenous rebels. 1985. Photo by the late Reuters photographer Ron Kinney.
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After my dog devoured the leather on one of my
@LLBean
boots and I tweeted the damage, the company said send it back for repair. Cost around $17. It just came back. Thanks! Well done. Great service.
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Pics from Manhattan, including of former
@AP
building at 50 Rock where I worked once upon a time. Was in NY last week for a workshop.
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Too many guns? Too many angry or unstable people with guns? Just wondering. This is the 3rd case in a few days of people being shot just for mistakenly showing up at the wrong place.
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Heroes. No other word for them. 20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
(from
@AP
)
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@GregRenoff
@Skynyrd
Oh man. This is the first I’ve heard that Gary passed. Sad. A very nice man and great musician. I interviewed him and his wife Dale in their cabin in Wyoming 40 years ago.
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Want to see the face of bravery? Here it is. Linda Brown of Brown vs. Board of Education
#bravery
#segregation
#racism
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1/X Winter 1983. I was living in Jackson, Wyoming, and stringing for the
@CSTribune
. I'd heard that
@Skynyrd
guitarist Gary Rossington was living nearby. To avoid being entirely broke, I got day jobs via the state employment commission. One day the job was to break up ice
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Tear gas, banned in warfare but used against civilian protesters, has no federal oversight of safety or production. Oregon senators want changes. My
@AP
story.
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Kayaking in Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Pretty big workout going against the wind and sometimes the tide. Great to be in nature. Photo by Zoe.
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My nephew and his wife were in Paris. And a dog walked by with a baguette in its mouth. 😂
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Ex-
@AP
bureau chief
@jstraziusoICRC
, whom I worked with for years in Africa, uses his journalism chops as an
@ICRC
spokesman to describe, with excellent detail, the Mariupol rescue mission. via
@msnbc
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These are camas flowers. Lovely. Bush Pasture Park, Salem, Oregon.
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The legendary journalist Walter Mears had a hand early in my career. As AP’s executive editor, he pushed for me to be transferred from Honduras to Nicaragua, where there was a war and no English-language writer. I was a lowly paid local hire. I was wowed when years later I got
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When I researched and wrote about bourbon for an
@AP
article recently, it didn’t affect me at all. I gained no interest in bourbon. Not.
@FredMinnick
was a big help with the story and his enthusiasm, I must say, is infectious.
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I am sad to learn that one of my favorite editors has died. Goodbye, Marcus. You made some of my stories sing! I always loved talking with you. Longtime AP correspondent, editor Marcus Eliason dies at 75 (from
@AP
)
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National Proofreading Day, celebrated each year on March 8, is a day to promote eror-free writing.
#NationalProofreadingDay
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It was splendid to ride through sprawling Minto Brown Island Park in warm sunshine, and then come across this field of camas flowers.
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I had planned to report on an Oregon-related story today but instead wound up writing about a volcano in Hawaii. That's a big part of why this job is so interesting!
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Where's the button on the computer that will write your story for you after you've conducted the interviews and done the research?
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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So, someone I Interviewed for one of the stories I did (from Oregon) on erupting Mauna Loa sent me this photo he took last night of the volcano. Very cool! Clouds add drama.
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As Facebook reminds me, it'll be six years ago on Sunday that I left Africa and a great team behind. I miss them all.
@AP_Africa
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My Baba and me, probably in the early 1980s. I wrote recently about how she escaped Sevastopol as a teenager as the Red Army shelled the area around the docks amid a panicked crowd. Months earlier, she and her family had to flee their home in Odessa.
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Paulina Creek, partially under snow and ice. We had a lovely hike along it yesterday.
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Great hike to Green Lakes yesterday in the Three Sisters Wilderness. That's South Sister behind me, the third-highest peak in Oregon. Photo by
@zoeselsky
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5/X interview was done, we went outside and I made a photo of Gary, Dale and their baby daughter. I didn't have a ride back to town, so Gary pointed to his pickup truck and said, "Hop in. I'll give you a lift." (Probably not an exact quote.) What a nice, down-to-earth man.
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Checking out the gorgeous view on the Paulina Lake loop trail.
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I, too, am proud, of their dedication, bravery and talent.
@AP
#PulitzerPrize
Tremendously proud of my
@AP
colleagues, whose Ukraine war reporting was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
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#Oregon
Capitol correspondents show off their socks that have patterns of carpets in the Senate, House and governor’s office. The Senate won.
#orleg
#orpol
#journalism
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Me to wife: “Did I ever tell you that the very first time I played soccer I scored a goal?”
Wife: “About 20 times.”
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@thedavidcrosby
ever think about hosting a podcast, with guests, if you have the time to do it?
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Wishing the very best to
@AP
colleagues working around the world this holiday season, including in some tough places, and to journalists everywhere who are trying to inform the world and right wrongs,
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My photo of Dad in the family’s Paris apartment, in 1973. Me there, 50 years later. RIP, Dad. You had a great run as a father and as a Cold War warrior.
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Oregon appears to be the only state in America with a gun safety initiative underway for the 2022 election, according to
@GiffordsCourage
, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence.
@AP
story via
@washingtonpost
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@TheGaryWarner
No need for Oregon counties to join Idaho now. Idaho “famous potatoes” isn’t the only spud state.
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Forty years ago. Me, a reporter for the Cleburne Times-Review, interviewing Texas Gov. Bill Clements.
@ctrnews
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My son Blaine and me hiking on Kalalau Trail, Ha’ena State Park, Kauai, Hawaii, on July 2. Lush, rugged countryside overlooking the Pacific. Amazing.
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Just shot this pic. A voter drops off a ballot in Salem, Oregon, as her dog checks out the situation. Nice to have the sun peep out to light up the autumn trees for this moment after it rained ALL day. Photo available on
@AP_Images
soon.
#Election2022
@AP
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It was a privilege to hear from two legendary
@AP
stalwarts yesterday in back-to-back Zoom chats,
@Kathygannon
and
@titimesquita
. These two woman are amazing and the best. They've got some great stories to tell from deep experiences in the world's wild places.
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