Patrick A. McGuire, Commissioned Biography and History

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Experience and Dependability

 

Contract book writing: published three story-driven organizational histories.

Eight years as a freelance writer, editor and general manager of a publications company.

N.E.H. Journalist-in-residence, University of Michigan.

Journalism degree, St. Bonaventure University

Twenty-five years as a newspaper reporter at The Baltimore Sun and The Denver Post

 

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Seasoned Writer, Reporter, Editor, Teacher

  • Seven years as reporter, magazine writer and columnist at The Denver Post. Nominated by editors for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting.
  • Fourteen years covering news, sports and features for The Baltimore Sun. Two editorial Pulitzer nominations for investigative reporting, along with other national and regional writing awards in sports writing, feature writing and magazine writing.
  • Senior editor and writing coach, The APA Monitor, monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association.
  • Taught journalism courses as well as creative non-fiction writing, fiction writing, comedy writing and song writing at colleges in the Baltimore area, most recently at the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill School of Journalism.
  • Free lance reporting for Business Week  Magazine, covering industrial technology.
  • Other freelance publications: The Industry Standard, Stores magazine, Quill magazine and for several years wrote and edited the Kids’ Care newsletters for Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian.
  • Editorial Director, and later, General Manager of Health Ink Communications, publishers of three dozen consumer-health oriented newsletters and magazines.