Former Beacon Journal newsroom staffer Gloria Irwin went to an arts and crafts show in Marietta, GA, and ran into former BJ medical writer Diane Lore. Diane is a Democrat running for the Georgia legislature in the 41st district against its current House occupant, Republican Sharon Cooper. Diane is president of Atlanta-based Deep South Digital, which helps public relations free-lancers. Most of her staff have the last name of Lore. Diane and her husband have three children.
A fourth-generation journalist, the Ohio State graduate lists editing and reporting for the BJ, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (also as a medical writer), Editor & Publisher and web sites WebMD and Salon.com among her credentials.
Diane survived an MRSA -- methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- bacterial infection acquired during her 2003 hospital stay for the birth of her third child. That involved six months of being isolated from her own daughter and fighting infections at $100 a pill. And battling the insurance company over payments on the enormous bills.
4 comments:
thanks for the shout out - and please check out the website -- dianelore.org -- to see what one journalist-turns-politician believes (got a blog too!)
with warm regards,
Diane Lore
And a shout-out to another journalist, Maryn McKenna, who wrote SUPERBUG - about MRSA - for making my story Chapter 13....fascinating account of another epidemic that the nation's hospitals try to downplay...http://www.superbugthebook.com/
I am NOT a newsroom retiree. I do NOT draw a pension from Knight Ridder. I am NOT that old. I left the Beacon Journal to start a career in another profession, not to retire.
- Gloria Irwin
Sorry, Gloria.
I AM that old, but it's no excuse.
Thanks for tipping us off about the story. BJ Alums gets a lot of articles from, well, BJ alums who live far beyond the Akron area.
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