Cliff Harrington is a journalist with 46 years experience.

 

Cliff was born in rural Rockingham, N.C., and is a product of segregation-era elementary and middle schools before graduating in the first class at integrated Richmond County Senior High School.

He also is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the early years of his professional career with what then was Knight-Ridder newspapers, through fellowships he did additional journalism-related studies at Miami of Ohio University and the University of Maryland-College Park.

 

Cliff entered a newspaper newsroom in 1977 and never left.

 

He started as a sports intern, earned a full-time staff position and went on to cover high school, college and professional sports. He moved on to Multimedia newspapers (now known as Ganett) where he shifted to news writing and worked as a police and courts reporter before being promoted to editor in 1984.

 

He has been a copy desk chief, and editor for an array of staffs of writers in South Carolina and North Carolina. He has worked at The Columbus, Ga., Ledger-Enquirer, The Greenville, S.C., News-Piedmont,  The Charlotte Observer and recently retired as executive editor of The Rock Hill, S.C., Herald newspaper.

 

Through all the years, Cliff’s focus has been on the precision and craftsmanship that goes into writing. It is out of his passion for writing, and deep respect for those who built the foundation of his passion, that this book has been written.