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Val Rendel

Chicago
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Freelance copywriter, novelist, storysmith, educator, and occasional journalist.

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Val Rendel is a freelance copywriter, novelist, storysmith, online educator and sometime journalist.

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Ask the Chicago History Museum to recognize Pete Kastanes of Vanished Chicagoland

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By Val Rendel
| Change.org
Recent signers Luke Parobek•3 days ago Manuel Cantoria•4 days ago Robert Jancaus•5 days ago Karl Johnson•6 days ago Joshua Tromer•1 week ago Jennifer Heyd•1 week ago J.
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What Sandy Hook did to me

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By Val Rendel
| Medium
By Val Rendel It's worse than you think. My daughter was seven months old when I dropped her off for her first day of daycare on December 14, 2012. I handed her into the arms of a stranger, went home and tried to work. That afternoon the news came. Twenty first-graders and six adults. Massacred. They had to DNA match a kid's hand that they found on the floor, because a round from an AR-15 blows six-year-olds apart like carnival ducks.
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Local Author Night ft. Jan Alexander, Andrew Farkas, Vojislav Pejovic, and Val Rendel

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By Jan Alexander Verified, Andrew N. Farkas, Val Rendel, Vojislav Pejovic
| bookcellarinc.com
It's Local Author Night at The Book Cellar, featuring Jan Alexander (Ms. Ming's Guide to Civilization), Andrew Farkas (The Big Red Herring), Vojislav Pejovic (American Sfumato), and Val Rendel (Sears in Chicago.) Jan Alexander is the author of the novel Getting to Lamma and co-author of the nonfiction book Bad Girls of the Silver Screen. Her short fiction has appeared in 34th Parallel, Everyday Fiction, Neworld Review, and Silver Birch Press.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

First journalistic job: writing for both the official high school newspaper and the underground one (simultaneously).

Have you ever used a typewriter?

In fact I wrote my dissertation on a 1932 Underwood #5.

How is social media changing news?

Social media is making news travel faster - which is great if you're part of a civil uprising in Syria, less so in other contexts.