A Journalism Career Born in a Houston Garage

Shea Serrano's first article netted him $15.

How can you not love a media career that began as follows:

Even though Serrano climbed the media ladder quickly, it didn’t happen overnight. He began, humbly, as a freelance sportswriter for the Near Northwest Banner, a tiny neighborhood publication that a “little old woman” was printing in her garage. His first story was about Craig Biggio’s retirement from the Houston Astros. She paid him $15.

That nugget comes from a profile of Shea Serrano, an author and former Grantland writer, by Travis Shafer for Stanford University’s The Peninsula Press.

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