The Echo

Now that's politics!  I love it.  Ginger gets a leg up in the career world because O'Donnell and staffers behave like children.  COD has certainly made this an election worth watching (and voting in - but no sayin' who I am voting for.)  Back in the day, when I was a journalism student at UD, Amy Grossberg had a baby in a hotel room in Newark and the international media descended on the little city to sniff out the story  I remember a smart guy, Leo Shane III, one helluva student reporter, who got some major cred to add to his resume for his amazing coverage of the Grossberg-Peterson story.  And Leo's really made his mark in the ensuing years, staying true to his craft (bio below). 

So, C&E 1st wants to take this opportunity to wish Ginger Gibson good luck in New Jersey.  I didn't get to know Ginger personally, but I liked her tenacity.  Here's to holding Gov. Christie accountable.  Heard today that's he's offered Michell Rhee, ousted DC Ed Chancellor, a job in his administration.  Facebook money and Rhee, Ginger will be in journalism heaven!

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101022/OPINION11/10220306/From-the-editor-Gathering-the-news-in-a-rough-and-tumble-Senate-campaign


Leo Shane III -
Leo Shane has worked at Stars and Stripes since 2004, covering Capitol Hill and the White House. His beats include legislation affecting military policy and veterans issues. His work also includes overseas coverage of military operations in Afghanistan in July-August 2006, Chile and Ecuador in April 2007, and Iraq in August-September 2008.

In 2010 he was part of a team of reporters at the paper who received the Polk Award for stories on the military's practice of profiling and evaluating journalists in Afghanistan in an attempt to steer coverage of the war.

Prior to his work at Stripes, Leo covered state and local politics for newspapers in Ohio, Illinois and Philadelphia. He is a 1998 graduate of the University of Delaware.



Contact information:
shanel@stripes.osd.mil