Today Dan Morris-Young, editor of the Catholic San Francisco newspaper, came to talk to my feature writing class about what he does, feature writing, and of course the newspaper. Well, I’m not Catholic at all so I figured that this newspaper would be boring and this guy would have nothing interesting to say. I was completely wrong because he was totally not the kind of person I thought would be editor of a Catholic newspaper. He said "damn," he talked about controversial issues, his other job/passion is diving, and he offered the students in my class the opportunity to write for the newspaper without questioning our own religious backgrounds. I think he’s pretty cool actually.
Morris-Young has got 40+ years of experience behind him and was the first editor of Catholic San Francisco, formally known as the Monitor (the newspaper was recreated in 1998). He says that the newspaper is half straight news and half feature writing. The paper goes out to about 70,000-85,000 homes in
He was enthused by our interest in the paper and encouraged our involvement with writing feature articles for him in the future. In fact, USF graduate Michael Vick is a writer for Catholic San Francisco, and just recently wrote a feature story about his visit to
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Well, that's a "check-plus" post. I hope you write for him.
I totally agree with you. I had not idea what to expect of his visit and really surprised that issues like these would possible in his newspaper. BUt I would be curious to see how far you can go with those issues. I mean I understand that you can do it, but aren't there some religious people who are going to be against it? If you start talking to religious people about it and say this is for a story they might get a little tensed and not necessarily want to talk about it. So what do you think?
I bet if we had pushed just a little we could have discovered some stories and some angles on the stories he suggested that Dan would not consider. But I think the problem would be the angles, not the story ideas.
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