John E. McIntyre

John Early McIntyre has been a working editor for more than forty years, first at The Cincinnati Enquirer and since 1986 at The Baltimore Sun. He has been at the desk most Saturday nights since 1980.

At The Sun he works on the news desk and writes a blog called "You Don't Say."

He has terrorized undergraduates at Loyola University Maryland in the editing course since 1995.

He was originally, of course, an English major, as an undergraduate at Michigan State and a graduate student at Syracuse. The taint lingers.

Growing up in Eastern Kentucky, he was first exposed to journalism during six summers in high school and college, working for the weekly Flemingsburg Gazette.

He favors bow ties, bourbon, the music of Haydn, murder mysteries, strong coffee, history and biography, draft beer, country ham and salt-rising bread, laden bookshelves, and writers who have the common decency to acknowledge that they profit from an editor's assistance.