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Rick Hutzell

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Covers:  Life in Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay region.
I'm a husband, father, dog lover, very slow runner and journalist at @baltimorebanner. Forever part of @capgaznews. Follow me @rickhutzell on threads.

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Rick Hutzell’s Biography

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I'm a Maryland journalist. I started at my hometown newspaper in Ocean City and spent a while as the editor of the daily newspaper in Cambridge.

I put three decades in at The Capital in Annapolis. I was editor of the Maryland Gazette for 12 years and was editor of Capital Gazette for six.

I led the newsroom to a Pulitzer Prize after the 2018 attack that killed six of my colleagues.

Now I'm using Annapolis as a lens on the world for The Baltimore Banner.

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Hutzell: Banner Book Club explores Revolutionary mystery in ‘Chesapeake Bound’

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The first thing to know about Tom Guay is that he doesn’t see the hero of his novel, Irish indentured servant Michael Shea, as an alter ego. “Michael’s a far better musician than I am,” he said. “He’s a real cookie, like a Dylan or a Mozart kind of guy.” Michael is at the center of “Chesapeake Bound: An Annapolis Novel,” Guay’s historical fiction about music, murder and American beginnings.
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Hutzell: Eastern Shore secession? Go on now, go, walk out the door.

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By Rick Hutzell Verified
| The Baltimore Banner Verified
Tom Hutchinson has discovered himself to be a secessionist. After raising the Mardelva banner in the General Assembly, the Republican delegate called on the Eastern Shore to quit Maryland. The idea failed in the State House, but lots of folks told him they liked it when he got back to his familiar haunts in Cambridge.
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Hutzell: Andy Harris and the Maryland redistricting vote loom over Annapolis

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| The Baltimore Banner Verified
Oh, Andy. What is Maryland to do with you? To hear Republicans in the State House tell it, you’re the damsel in distress, a starlet in the clutches of a King Kong gerrymander unleashed on the state by Democrats. “This one’s personal for a lot of us,” Del. Lauren Arikan said.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Played it with my kids, and had to explain what a typewriter was before it made sense.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

You have a chance to observe the world, and a duty to report. Celebrate what is good, expose what is bad and point at what could be better.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I prefer the truth.