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Bill Crane

  • Principal, Media Relations and Strategy, CSI Crane
Atlanta
As seen in: Salon, WSB-TV (Atlanta, GA), 24/7 Wall Street, Jacobin, NewsBreak, Charleston Gazette-Mail, 3BL Media, The Marietta Daily Journal, The Red and Black, WV News and
Covers:  Politics, state government, federal government, local government and elections as well as occasionally lifestyle/sports and family life observations.
Doesn't Cover: Not a hard science or business column, but angles of each do get attention if they impact public policy.

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Bill Crane is the chief political analyst/commentator for WSB Radio and WSB-TV Action News. He has been providing political analysis in Atlanta and Georgia since 2000, first at 11Alive News, and later (2011) at @ WSB-TV.
His syndicated column, "One Man's Opinion," runs in several dozen daily and weekly newspapers across Georgia including the Gwinnett Daily Post, Marietta Daily Journal, Clayton News Daily, Henry Herald, Rockdale Citizen, Rome News Tribune, Newton Citizen, Eatonton Messenger, La…

Bill Crane’s Journalist Portfolio

One Man's Opinion Archives

One Man's Opinion Archives

Archive of weekly columns by Bill Crane, "One Man's Opinion." If you click on Follow Bill Crane link you can…

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Sampling of on air commentary work product.

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Georgia View Archives - Georgia Trend Magazine

Georgia View Archives - Georgia Trend Magazine

The 6th District race is bringing the nation's attention to Georgia, but who will win?

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Older broadcast work

Older broadcast work

Broadcast commentary/appearances from 11Alive News, GPB's "The Lawmakers," Al Jazeera English and CNN Interna…

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One Man's Opinion Blog archives on AccessWDUN, north Georgia's leading radio station and Gainesville's leadin…

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Articles

So many are missing Ms. Martha - The Champion Newspaper | 404-373-7779 | Georgia

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By Bill Crane
| The Champion Newspaper Verified
Scott's voice introduced me to a radio colleague and friend of his, Martha Zoller, already a dozen years into her radio career, as the host of "The Martha Zoller Show" on WDUN-AM 550, then and now sort of the North Georgia and Gainesville-based equivalent of WSB and the heart of the Jacobs Media Group. Scott assembled a roundtable of journalists and pundits who would gather and tape each Friday, a roughly 15-minute segment typically consuming the final quarter of the hour-long AMN Sunday Edition.
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One man’s opinion: Happy 250th birthday, America

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By Bill Crane
| Rough Draft Atlanta Verified
Though I was only 15 at the time, I have many very vivid memories of our nation’s Bicentennial in 1976. And though it took me a few years as a cashier at Winn-Dixie in those days, I still have my collection of 48 of those Bicentennial quarters. It was a time of great national pride that I could sort of feel in the air that summer. I well remember seeing the movie, “1776,” and later a live stage version of that inspiring musical. Several of those songs still pop up periodically in my head. Gerald R.
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ONE MAN’S OPINION: Happy 250th birthday America

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By Bill Crane
| The Citizen (Rockdale and Newton Counties) Verified
Though I was only 15 at the time, I have many very vivid memories of our nation’s Bicentennial in 1976. And though it took me a few years as a cashier at Winn-Dixie in those days, I still have my collection of 48 of those 50 state Bicentennial quarters. kAm~FC ?2E:@?’D 42A:E2= H2D :?F?52E65 H:E9 E@FC:DED[ 7C@> E96 r2A:E@= 3F:=5:?8 E@ E96 (9:E6 w@FD6[ (2D9:?8E@? |@?F>6?E[ {:?4@=? |6>@C:2= 2?5 2 >F49 D>2==6C ?F>36C @7 $>:E9D@?:2? |FD6F>D]k^Am kAm~FC @H? 72>:=J 925 G:D:E65 E96 DF>>6C AC:@C W`hfdX :?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

TV reporter, WMAZ-TV 13 Eyewitness News, Macon, GA.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, manual as well as later electric and still later "memory writers."

How is social media changing news?

Lowering standards and further compressing timelines for breaking news.

Awards

Georgia Press Association Better Newspaper Awards

Serious column

Prior year recognition of political commentary and serious columns.

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