OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: The Decline of the Daily Newspaper

Burton Wolfe, 73, lives in California, is an Author/Public Interest litigator and maintains his blog, Wolfebites Burton Wolfe broke into professional journalism, while at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., as a high school sports reporter for the now defunct Washington Daily News. At George Washington University Wolfe was sports editor of The Hatchet, Student Council Athletic Director, and vice president of a social fraternity. Wolfe graduated with special honors in journalism in 1954 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then served two years in the U.S. Army, mostly at Stars & Stripes in Germany, filling various roles: feature writer, editor of the Air Force-Navy weekly edition, columnist ("Furlough Facts") and editor of "Pup Tent Poets." As a state reporter for the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Wolfe wrote pioneering series of articles on such subjects as pollution of the state's rivers and streams and farm labor problems, for which he won several Associated Press writing awards. There followed a stint on the old Hearst wire service, International News Service. In 1960 in San Francisco, Wolfe began publishing The Californian, generally construed to be the periodical that led more than any other to the so-called "Alternative Press." After the periodical folded, Wolfe moved his family to Washington, D.C., where he worked as publications editor for AFSCME, AFL-CIO, and editor-writer for Civic Education Service. In San Francisco again, Wolfe became a stringer for Ramparts and featured writer on the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In the 1980's Wolfe for the most part left journalism to concentrate on free-lance writing and running the Homosapiens Educational & Legal Project (H.E.L.P.). Though H.E.L.P. is presently inactive, Wolfe continues to pursue public interest litigations in propria persona (without representation by a lawyer) that have benefited millions of U.S. citizens across the nation. Wolfe is the author of hundreds of articles published in popular, literary, and legal periodicals. Among his published books are The Hippies (New American Library), Hitler and the Nazis (Putnam), and Pileup on Death Row (Doubleday).

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