Charles Jacobs | Retirement Writing

August 22, 2008

 
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Some 50 years ago, Charles began his career

as a stringer and reporter for the

New York Journal-American to help

put himself through Columbia College

and earn a Masters Degree

at the University’s famed

Pulitzer Graduate School of Journalism

 

Charles’ credentials reach from coast to coast.

He rose to the prestigious position of

Publisher/President of the Alameda Newspaper

Group in the San Francisco region, and later

served as CEO of the Garden State Newspaper

Group, publisher of the North Jersey Herald &

News and Editor-in-Chief of FOCUS, a million

circulation magazine in New Jersey.

 

 

He has served as a consultant to magazines and

newspapers, has ghost-written several

books and is the author of

the published  novel Blood Bond

Charles has taught classes in writing for magazines

and newspapers and has served as guest speaker

for a variety of organizations and at writers conferences

sponsored by the National Writers Association

 

More than 750 of Charles’ articles have appeared

in magazines and newspapers throughout the country

from the Los Angeles Times on the West Coast to

 the New York Times in the East, as well as in Canada

 

Travel publications throughout the United States

and in Canada have carried Charles’ articles.

He has written for Grand Circle and Overseas Adventure

Travel, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of

Travel World International

 

Charles’ writing has been honored

with numerous awards

from the Society of Professional Journalists,

New Jersey Press Club, Working Press Association

And the North American Travel Journalists Association

 

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