Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Memorable Stories: Mike Clary
Our plea to blog readers to let us know of some memorable stories they have written brought this response from Mike Clary, now at the South Florida Sun Sentinel:
“My favorite story from my years at BJ -- two stints, in mid-60s, then mid-70s with Ricci, Cull and gang -- was one of my first bylines as cop reporter when I bungled into helping cops finger a suspect for the FBI.”
Clary wrote a first person story which ran on page 1 with a one-column photo of Clary and photos of the suspect and a police traffic officer. The story ran on Sunday, October 10, 1965. The newspaper got a letter of thanks few days later from J. Edgar Hoover which Clary still has.
“I was 22, just hired as police reporter, working for city editor Bruce McIntyre,” Clary said.
That was 39 years ago. Clary went on to write many humorous stories for the Beacon and, of course, has written reams of copy since.
Clary said it was “Interesting to read a note from Dan Warner the other day on the blog. He was assistant city editor then and may have had a hand in tuning up that story.”
Please click on the headline above to see a reprint of the story and photos.
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1 comment:
Great writing, Clary!
You're nuts!!
LOL!!!
Talking over the backyard fence with a friend type of writing, which I've told a gazillion reporters to do, but few did. They too often tried to write the way they read other reporters write. Which just meant the bad reporters infected the next generation of reporters.
Words have life and power and fascination. Use them!
Sorry. But I get excited about well-written stories, and this is one of them.
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