Tom Durkin on Muck Rack

Tom Durkin

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Nevada City
Covers:  Arts &entertainment, law, human interest, housing & homelessness, mental health, op-ed
Doesn't Cover: Sports, religion
Writer/editor/photographer

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Tom Durkin’s Biography

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From screenplays to technical white papers, general news reporting to deep legislative-legal analysis, op-eds to feature articles, press releases to personality profiles, copy writing to copy editing, ghostwriting to my latest resume, my career has been a peripatetic journey through many genres, media and styles.

Over the many years, with occasional day-job excursions into social work and manual labor, I’ve discovered that I can write (or edit) pretty much anything you need - even if I’ve never…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Weekend cops and fire for an AM radio station.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Learned on an Underwood manual in high school. Used a Smith-Corona electric in college. Wrote 11 screenplays on an IBM Selectric.

How is social media changing news?

It's ruining it. Opinion is passed off as fact. Amateurs and bad actors get the news wrong either accidentally or deliberately.

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