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Journalist and Author
Kenneth N. Weiss
Most recently, Kenneth N. Weiss was a content editor for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. In his long career, he worked for a number of daily and weekly newspapers in Maryland and New Jersey, including the defunct Journal newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C., The Capital in Annapolis, Md., and the Daily Record in Morris County, N.J.
In the past, he oversaw the Opinion pages of three different publications, including The Washington Post Co.’s defunct Gazette of Politics and Business, for which he served as editor. While at the Montgomery Journal, he won a “Best in Show” award for editorial writing from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association.
He later was a managing editor for Patuxent Publishing Co., supervising staff for nine community newspapers in the Baltimore area.
For the past few years, he also has been a seasonal copy editor for the nonprofit Global Integrity’s and then the African Institute for Development Policy’s project scoring African countries on democracy indicators.
In the more distant past, he was a researcher and helped write the treatment for the film “The War at Home,” which was nominated for the Academy Award for best feature-length documentary in 1979.
In addition, for about a decade, he taught an introductory news writing course at Towson University and then the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was a researcher for the film "The War at Home." He also carves stone and wood as a hobby.
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STILL TRENDING
by Kenneth N Weiss
An attack on the U.S. Capitol. Controversy over vaccines, and reactions to a pandemic. The separation of children from immigrant parents. The treatment of Black people, Native-Americans and women, including involving birth control and abortion.
All issues that have established battle lines on the numerous contemporary social media platforms. But they were also points of contention in the 19th and early 20th centuries that played out in American newspapers, often through letters to the editor.
As my book, “Still Trending: A Divided America from Newspaper to Newsfeed,” proffers, some of the similarities over time — to today — are startling, but what stands out are two realities: that the country has a rich but often troubled democratic history, and that it has always managed to work through its differences of opinion to survive and even stand all the stronger.
Advance praise for
STILL TRENDING
“Author Ken Weiss and I share at least one thing in common — we were both editorial page editors. It was there that letters to the editor did more than just fill space. They frequently packed both wisdom and punch. Now Weiss has resurrected some of the best letters of the past, and they remarkably are as relevant today as the day they were written. It’s a great read.”
Mike M. Ahlers, former senior editor, CNN
“Kenneth Weiss has mined rich material from newspapers of the past on a wide range of controversies, including contested elections, abortion, and responses to epidemics, and in doing so, has revealed echoes to the controversies of our times. With generous excerpts from these primary sources, there is fascinating material on every page.”
Matthew Mulcahy, professor of history and associate dean for the humanities at Loyola University Maryland
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