Jeff Ballinger’s first job in newspapers was in 1980 writing sports and pulling and sorting the newswire’s perforated paper tape for the now-defunct Paso Robles Daily Press in Central California. Back then, reporters used manual typewriters and editors used red grease pencils. For most of the ensuing three decades, he was a reporter in Vermont for the St. Albans Messenger and in California for the San Luis Obispo Tribune. Jeff has written obits and features, covered schools and murder trials and politics, and interviewed then-Governor George W. Bush days after he was nominated for the presidency by Republicans in 2000. He has also taught high school English in California, Washington and Oregon. Jeff moved over to the Web side of journalism four years ago and now lives and writes in New York City.

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