Christian Science Monitor Vet Brad Knickerbocker Retires
After six years as a Navy pilot, Brad Knickerbocker wound his way to a long and successful career in journalism.
Would this work, today? Probably not.
From the Ashland Daily Tidings front-page farewell to longtime locally based Oregon journalist Brad Knickerbocker, who has hung it up after 43 years with the Christian Science Monitor, 26 of those from a home office:
With no resume whatever in journalism, Knickerbocker sent out 70 applications to daily papers in the Northeast, New York (his home) and Northwest, landing him one job offer, on the Rochester daily.
His pitch in the letters? “I know how to fly high-performance aircraft and I want to be in journalism, so please hire me.”
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