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Gary Gately

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Covers:  News, investigative, public service, feature, profiles, juvenile justice, crime and courts, health, business, travel, among others.
Doesn't Cover: I don't do much hardcore financial and investment reporting.
I'm a journalist who has won 15 national, regional and local awards for my reporting and writing.

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Journalist Gary Gately has won 15 national, regional and local awards for reporting and writing news, investigative, public service, education, feature and travel pieces. Gately’s work has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun (where he worked in reporting and editing jobs for 11 years), The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Business Week, Newsweek, Amtrak's Arrive magazine, The Center for Public Integrity,

What was your first job as a journalist?

Reporter, then editor and chief at the Diamondback, the campus daily at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I began writing with a pen, then moved on to a typewriter in college.

How is social media changing news?

It's ever-present and a great way to keep abreast of what's happening and find story ideas on many beats.