- Kevin Blackistone
Kevin Blackistone is a columnist for "
AOL Sports " and is a frequent panelist forESPN 's "Around the Horn ".Career
He was born in
Washington, D.C. and raised in Hyattsville,Maryland , and started his career in journalism as a city side reporter at "The Boston Globe " newspaper. In1983 , he wrote for "The Chicago Reporter", a monthly investigative magazine on Chicago's racial and social issues. In 1986, Blackistone joined "The Dallas Morning News " newspaper as a reporter in the City section; he later moved to the Business section covering economics, and the Metropolitan section covering city events and issues.After covering
Nelson Mandela 's U.S. tour in1990 , he moved to "SportsDay" to cover sports business and write columns. A year later, he became a full-time "SportsDay" columnist.In
September 2006 , Blackistone was one of 111 journalists to accept a buyout offer from the "News", forcing his departure from the newspaper onSeptember 15 , 2006. EditorBob Mong , in an article on the buyouts, wrote of Blackistone: "His thoughtful and probing journalism almost always stimulated response from readers, and, in this hyper-busy world, that's saying something."Blackistone recently has served as a contributing writer to the web site [http://www.Politico.com Politico.com] . He still appears on "
Around the Horn " and recently began writing a column forAOL Sports . [http://sports.aol.com/nfl/story/_a/patriots-reach-uncharted-territory/20080120222509990001] Also, in August 2008, he accepted the position of the Shirley Povich chair of thePhilip Merrill College of Journalism at theUniversity of Maryland , where he now teaches.Blackistone is a graduate of
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School .Awards
Blackistone's several honors include first- and second-place awards for sports column writing from the
Texas Associated Press Managing Editors (APME), a Chicago Newspaper Guild award for investigative reporting, and aNational Association of Black Journalists award for enterprise reporting. He was also a member of a team that won a Texas APME award and, several times, a finalist for a Press Club of Dallas Katie Award.External links
* [http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/kblackistone/bio.htm Dallas Morning News biography]
* [http://espn.go.com/eoe/blackstone_bio.html ESPN biography]
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