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My resume:

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Investigations editor (2007-08)

Special projects editor (1996-2007)

Assistant metro editor (1992-96)

Suburban editor, city editor, acting metro editor (1988-92)

Night city desk (1984-88)

Gwinnett bureau chief (1984)

Reporter, Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb county courts & government (1980-83)

Savannah News-Press

reporter, state news editor (1977-80)

Globe Newspapers, Fairfax, Va.

reporter & editor (1972-77, sandwiched around a 1-year gap when I took off to see America)

Education

Graduated 1970, Annandale High School, Annandale, Va.

About the editor: Jim Walls

I'm an ink-stained wretch. Or a reporter's editor. Or clunky and unpolished. More likely, all three and then some. I won't even tell you what my reporters used to call me. Ask them if you run into them.

I've also been a journalist for 36 years, the last 28 at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, primarily as an editor. I ran the Gwinnett County bureau and the suburban, city and night desks at various times. I was privileged to work with a team of very talented investigative reporters for my last 12 years at the AJC.

When the newspaper trimmed its staff in 2008, I took a buyout and prepared to change careers. But plans changed as I watched the newspaper business implode along with the public service journalism that I devoted my career to. So I have created AtlantaUnfiltered.com to support and promote investigative journalism in Georgia.

Photo by Mike Schinkel

Links

A journalist's work speaks for itself. Here are some of the AJC stories I supervised:
Honors and awards

Editors don't generally get their names on journalism prizes. But here are a few awards won by projects that I supervised:

Philip Meyer Journalism Award, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (2nd place), 2007

Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting (finalist), 2005

Health Care Journalism Award, National Institute for Health Care Management, 2002

Silver Gavel Award for public service, American Bar Association, 1994
Silver Gavel Award for public service, State Bar of Georgia, 1994, 1999, 2001

Green Eyeshade Awards, investigative reporting, 2005

Best of Cox Awards:
-- public service, 1999, 2002
-- investigative reporting, 2001, 2005
-- writer of the year, 2002

Georgia Associated Press:
-- story of the year, 2002, 2007
-- public service, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2007
-- non-deadline reporting, 1998, 1999, 2008
-- feature writing, 2001

Georgia Press Association:
-- community service, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002
-- hard news writing, 1998, 1999
-- investigative reporting, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008