Reporting & writing

Zenger News

Since 2020, I’ve covered energy, politics, business, C-suite, legislation and other national issues for online news wire service Zenger News.

  • May 24, 2021
    Boardroom Brawl: ExxonMobil Faces Proxy Fight Over Cutting Carbon - Zenger News
    Effort to elect independent candidates who will push the oil giant to pursue low-carbon initiatives gains momentum.
  • Jan 14, 2021
    Zenger  News story on climate change and corporate boards  republished on Forbes.com:
    Climate Change Now Key Issue For Boardrooms And Balance Sheets
    Two studies show that while corporate leadership is moving toward embracing climate policies, rank-and-file employees as essential to changing attitudes inside C-suites.
  • Dec 15, 2020
    Nuclear Industry Seeks to Break Logjam on Waste Disposal in Biden Administration - Zenger News
    One drawback to nuclear energy is spent nuclear fuel, also known as nuclear waste. The Obama administration’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future studied this, and President-elect Joe Biden’s administration may help solve this problem.
  • Nov 2, 2020
    Across Country, Court Battles Determine Which Ballots Count - Zenger News
    Ballot-counting extensions could keep results unknown for more than a week after the election.

Newspaper reporting & publishing

  • Owner & Publisher, Lumina News – Feb 2017 – Feb 2020
  • News director, Lumina  News – July 2015 – Jan 2017

For a period of three years, I was the owner and publisher of the Lumina News, the weekly newspaper serving Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Taking over ownership from the news director position, I wrote, sold advertisement, designed layouts, printed, delivered and published online the weekly newspaper. Almost poetically, the high-water mark of the experience was the coverage of 2018’s Hurricane Florence, where the island beach town was evacuated for nearly a week. Other leading stories included a crashed Marine Corps, a washed ashore shark and a cross-country bike trek. See more of my Lumina News stories here…

Awards

2000 – Second Place – Spot News Reporting – Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association (Division B)

Montgomery Journal: Parishioners grieve loss of a ‘man of deep faith’


By TERRY LANE
Journal staff writer

Stunned by the violent death of Monsignor Thomas Wells yesterday, grieving parishioners and clergy remembered him as a priest who filled their hearts with faith, hope and spirit.
And laughter.
“Anyone who came to see his sermon would leave not only understanding the message he wanted to spread,” said Henry Levy, a nine-year member of Mother Seton parish in Germantown. “They would leave laughing and with a smile on their face.”
In his 29 years as a priest in the Washington area, Wells’ enthusiasm for the job never faded, said the Rev. Thomas Kalita of St. Peter Catholic Church in Olney.
“He was so in love with being a priest,” Kalita said. “His enthusiasm was so great he convinced several young people to join the priesthood.”

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