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Caleb Slinkard

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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Macon Melody Aug. 16, 2024 edition

Closing the justice gap, feature on Tubman Museum executive director, RAFB pilot receives award for rescue + special high school football preview section

COLUMN: End of summer break prompts reflection

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. 

Macon Melody Aug. 9, 2024 edition

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.

Macon Melody Aug. 2, 2024 edition

Black Music photo exhibit at the Tubman, surviving Middle Georgia quintuplet heads to college, and new softball season starts

COLUMN: Every newsroom in America needs one of these

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. 

Macon Melody July 26, 2024 edition
Macon Melody July 19, 2024 edition
A man sits in front of two black and white paintings.
Georgia artist, Mercer grad works to ‘create a sense of wonder’

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.

Macon Melody July 12, 2024 edition
A sunset over a lake with several boats creating ripples on the water. The sun is low in the sky, casting a golden reflection on the lake's surface. The sky has a mix of clouds, and the shoreline is lined with trees and a few houses. The scene is calm and serene.
COLUMN: The importance of knowing where you’re from

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.

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