Caleb Slinkard is the Executive Editor of the Georgia Trust for Local News and Managing Editor of the Macon Melody. He began his career in Texas as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, the Greenville Herald Banner, and two years later became the paper’s senior editor. Slinkard has run newspapers in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia and taught journalism and practicum courses at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mercer University. He was born in Bryan/College Station, Texas to Gary and Susan Slinkard. He has a twin brother, Joshua, and a younger brother, Nathan, as well as two nephews and a niece. He enjoys playing pickleball, chess, reading and hiking around Middle Georgia in his free time.
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Sixteen years ago, a tall, tattooed and bespectacled editor (there were three managing editors that semester for the East Texan, a failed triumvirate experiment that to my knowledge was never attempted again) looked at me over his white eMac and gave me my first beat assignment: covering A&M-Commerce cross country/track and field.
Vice marts plague Unionville, charter school petition prompts concerns, Macon Film Festival begins next week and the legend of Roscoe King, all in this week's edition of The Macon Melody.
Journalists are wary of throwing anything away, whether it’s full notebooks, old keyboards or computer monitors with dead pixel lines. We value history, continuity, the utility of things that are a little banged up but still have a spark in them.
A former football player at Mercer, activist and public speaker, Brown’s art has been featured in gallery shows in Macon. But Brown says this is the first time he feels like he’s all-in.
It intrigues me how where you’re from is hardly static. Highways, airplanes and the world wide web have shrunk distances, erased regional dialects and smoothed out many of our unique wrinkles. Folks remake themselves every day.