Roger Brigham’s Biography
Roger Brigham is a veteran journalist known best for his sports writing and editing. He started his career in 1976 as a news reporter with the Times Record in Troy, New York. At the age of 23 he became the editor of the Daily Mirror in Kodiak, Alaska. In 1982 he became the first openly gay sports editor at a metropolitan daily newspaper, the Anchorage Daily Mirror. His later daily newspaper stops included being a sports feature writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner; executive sports for the Albany (NY) Times Union; and deputy sports editor for the Oakland Tribune. He handled sports coverage for two early internet media startups, eWorld and @Home, and currently covers sports for the weekly Bay Area Reporter in San Francisco.
Brigham's work has appeared in more than 20 publications; he has won 20+ awards local and national awards for writing, editing and design. His 1987 series on Death and Disability in Football was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting.
He has been inducted into the LGBT Sports Hall of Fame and the Wrestlers WithOut Borders Hall of Merit.
He is also the author of a cookbook, "Recipes for Life and Other Disasters." An expanded second edition is planned in 2021.