A Good Life in the Inland Northwest: A Collection of Columns from the Spokesman-Review (Spokesman-Review Book) - Hardcover

Peck, Chris; Higgins, Shaun; Higgins, Shaun O'L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0923910093 ISBN 13: 9780923910099

Publisher: New Media Ventures Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Peck, Chris, Higgins, Shaun, Higgins, Shaun O'L.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Peck's first journalism job was sweeping out the castoff linotype lead filings at the Daily Riverton (Wyoming) Ranger. That was in 1961. He was 11 and the co-owner's son.

Newspapering in his blood, he studied communication at Stanford, landed an editor's slot right after graduation at the Wood River (Idaho) Journal, and aimed at markets that were larger - but not big enough to displace him from the landscape of his beloved West. The progression was steady.

In 1977 he was named managing editor of the Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News. Joining the Spokane Spokesman-Review as a news columnist in 1979, he was managing editor three years later, adding the same title at the Spokane Chronicle when the papers merged in 1983.

At the privately-held The Spokesman-Review, the largest newspaper between Minneapolis and Seattle, Peck directs a staff of 150 journalists and is a member of the company's four-person executive management team.

The Spokesman-Review won the General Excellence award as the best metro daily in the Inland Pacific Northwest for 10 years in a row.

A steelhead fisherman and a jogger, Peck is married to Kate Duignan, a self-employed fashion designer. They look after Sarah, 15, and Cody, 12, together.

From the Inside Flap

Chris Peck's columns about life in Spokane and the Inland Northwest have been capturing hearts and stimulating minds since 1979.

In his first years as a columnist for The Spokesman-Review, Peck covered the broadest range of general interest topics. His columns helped track down the feared South Hill rapist, Fred Coe. He visited with Robin Lee Graham, the youngest man ever to sail alone around the world. He reverently attended the wedding of a 98-year-old man and sadly reflected on the funeral of a bum.

Peck also has raised a family in Spokane. His daughter, Sarah, and son, Cody, provided boundless material for reflection as they grew up, went to school, discovered winning, losing and bits about themselves.

And then there is the newspaper business. Over the years, Peck has discussed and debated some fascinating ethical issues and news judgments that have sprung from events around the Inland Northwest. How should the paper cover the news that the Spokane Symphony's musical director was dying of AIDS? Was it proper to photograph Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman when he visited Idaho during the O. J. Simpson trial?

Peck is at his best in A Good Life in the Inland Northwest - an enduring portrait of a region and its people.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Media Ventures Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0923910093
• ISBN 13: 9780923910099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 297