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Greenville Journal adds two new writers to editorial team
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Friday, May 11 6 pm-10:30 pm Adults $20 • Children $10
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Proceeds benefit select Upstate charitable organizations.
10 Greenville Journal | APRIL 6, 2012
The Greenville Journal is pleased to announce the addition of two new writers, Jerry Salley and April A. Morris, to the Community Journals editorial staff. Salley selected for assistant editor post By April a. morris | staff
As assistant editor, Jerry Salley will contribute articles, edit stories and assist in production. He has degrees in English and creative writing, with nearly two decades of writing and editing experience. An Asheville native, Salley established his Upstate ties as a student at Furman University. Upstate residents may have seen him performing sketches and improv comedy in town with Idiom Savant, a troupe he founded in the late 1980s. After working in North Carolina as a copywriter, senior editor, senior content producer and reporter for corporations such as IBM, Smart Online and Citysearch.com, Salley returned to the Upstate two years ago. As a freelance writer, Salley has tackled a variety of
Morris brings Upstate roots, love of writing to Journal By JERRY SALLEY | staff
April Morris, an award-winning journalist who joins the Journal as a staff writer, returned to the Upstate from North Carolina five years ago to find “a very different” Greenville from the hometown she knew as a child. “I love the downtown renewal, especially the Falls Park area,” she said. Morris’s work at the Journal will be a continued growth of her deep roots in Upstate publications. After graduating from Lander University in Greenwood, she started at the Pickens Sentinel as a general assignment reporter who “covered everything” from government and education to crime and local interest features. Her work at the Sentinel earned her a 1998 South Carolina Press Association award. After three years at the Chatham (NC)
topics from medical coding for trade newsletters to literature and visual arts. He has recently served as executive editor at Eli Research and contributed stories to the Green- Jerry Salley, ville Journal and assistant editor, Greenville Busi- Community ness Magazine. Journals When he’s not searching for interesting stories or composing at the keyboard, Salley can be found reading, enjoying music, completing New York Times crossword puzzles, and restoring his 116year-old-home. As Salley joins the Journal staff, he says, “I’m looking forward to learning more about Greenville and telling stories about the area.” News and Record (where her writing won two more awards), Morris returned to South Carolina in 2003 to work as an assistant editor at G – The Magazine of Greenville, from its launch April Morris, in 2008 to its folding staff writer, in 2010. Morris has Community been a frequent con- Journals tributor to TOWN Magazine as a freelance writer. She’s excited to now be joining the Journal staff. “The Journal is unique in its niche,” she said. “Its format and community focus gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into stories and issues.” Morris’ devotion to writing is proven by an unusual hobby: a collection of fountain pens. Her friends and family often receive letters written in longhand. “It’s a pleasure to write,” she said, “if you have a fine writing instrument.”