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3655 Olive
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63108

Telephone: 314-535-NEWS

Information: Forty years ago this summer, Dale began his career in professional journalism by talking his way into a summertime vacation replacement job at the now-defunct United Press International bureau in St. Louis. After two weeks, he was such a spectacular success he was made night bureau manager, which isn't as grand as it sounds because he was the only reporter working at night. After graduating from Washington University, Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English, he served a 14-month term in public relations before joining UPI full-time in 1972.

Eight years later, he joined the staff of the Post-Dispatch, where for the next 28-plus years he was a business reporter and editor, a Metro reporter specializing in education, assistant editor of the Editorial Page for 10 years and news editor of the newspaper's website. He held that position until parting company with the P-D in August of 2008. Two weeks later, he joined the staff of the Beacon, where he scours the web for links to news stories worldwide as well as writing some of his own.

In addition to being a journalist, he is also an adjunct professor at University College at Washington U., where he has taught classes in online journalism and journalism ethics. He and his wife, Merle, a semi-retired high school English teacher, live in west St. Louis County with their spoiled Bichon, Teddy. They have two adult daughters who live in New York City and have followed them into the word business as a speechwriter and a magazine editor.

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