Also known as: GJMcGinn
To reestablish my journalism career and to continue my writing and photography, establishing new media outlets where my work can reach new markets, using new technology, and for my work to establish new trends in the way crime reporting is done. Other reporting for future includes enterprise, in depth reporting that goes beyond the questions reporters ask, and shining a new light on subjects people thought they knew about. Specialties Editing online content, reporting (Investigative, Crime Courts, and Government), Photography (spot news, sports, features, travel, and astro-photography), Research, Legal Investigations, Background Checking, Investigations, Florida Public Records law. CAREER SUMMARY I am an award-winning journalist, including a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Charlotte Sun's staff entry covering Hurricane Charley. I also won the Florida Press Club's Frances DeVore award for Investigative Reporting, writing a -month series that uncovered an illegal toxic dump run by the city of North Port in the middle of a populated community on both city and private properties. In , I was inducted into the International Freelance Photographer's Association's Photographer's Hall of Fame (only , out of , members were inducted). I am a Past President of the Florida Press Club, and served years on its board of directors. (httpfloridapressclub.orgofficers) While reporting, I covered crimes and courts investigative reporting city and county reporting travel writing and photography, features, and enterprise pieces. I am also an accomplished award-winning photojournalist.
