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Glynn Wilson has been called the Hunter Thompson and the Michael Moore of Alabama who tackles big stories like a watchdog pit bull in the cartoons from American journalism’s Muckraking era in he early 20th century. In three decades of public service journalism, his research was instrumental taking down Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader for the New York Times. He’s helped save National Forests from fracking, Medicaid funding for the poor and the United States Senate and the American people from the radical Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore.
Wilson took on Moore’s white nationalist sponsors, Steve Bannon of Breitbart News and liberation tech billionaire Robert Mercer, and stopped them cold in the conservative American South. Moore’s loss to a Democrat in red state Alabama was instrumental in getting Bannon fired from Breitbart and exiled overseas, where he’s trying to spread the gospel of nationalism across Europe, but still whispering in President Donald Trump’s ear on key policy issues to use in his campaign, like immigration and the Supreme Court.
Since the early days of the Internet, Wilson has pushed the boundaries on the cutting edge of web journalism, from his home state of Alabama to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He’s been known for getting in the faces of powerful politicians and asking the hard questions since he got his start in daily journalism in Decatur, Alabama in the mid-1980s.
He’s taken that serious, authoritative approach from newspapers and magazines to publications of his own creation in the internet era and proven that you can survive and make a living telling it like it is on the big stories of the day without kissing up to the rich and powerful, or working in corporate media environment doing what your told and keeping your mouth shut by editors in New York, Washington or Birmingham.
His new book, “Jump On The Bus: Make Democracy Work Again,” which has only been out two days and it is already number one on the Kindle Best Seller List for Biographies of Professional Journalists, has been called in Amazon Kindle reviews “an entertaining chronicle of one man’s journey through the challenges of contemporary media.”
“Detailing many interactions with notable people, this is a worthwhile tale for young people navigating the field, particularly those forging their own way in a rapidly changing, sometimes reactionary, political and economic landscape while trying to hold some slippery feet to the fire along the way,” wrote Joe Adams.
Wilson was instrumental in helping Birmingham Democrat Doug Jones stop the radical udge Moore, twice kicked off the state Supreme Court for failing to abide by the law, to gain a seat in the United States Senate in 2017. While this is not typically the role of a reporter in covering a campaign, it is consistent with may writers, editors and publishers in American history who fought for democracy and the earth, from Tom Paine to Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and the doctor of Gonzo Journalism himself.
Wilson is a Web editor and publisher as well as a free-lance writer and author who was born and raised in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. He launched a professional news career at a small paper in Bay Minette on the Gulf of Mexico coast but climbed his way out of his home state through academic circles from the University of Alabama to Georgia College, the University of Tennessee and eventually Loyola University New Orleans. As a free-lance writer, he made it from there to The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and ultimately The New York Times national desk.
But when newspapers began to suffer finally in 2005 and the web began to gain steam, he launched the experimental Locust Fork News-Journal at the LocustFork.net where he published for a decade, and then in 2013, he began publishing the New American Journal at NewAmericanJournal.Net.
In early 2016, he finally got around to publishing a memoir, which has now been updated with a second edition including new chapters on the earth-shaking Senate election of Alabama Democrat Doug Jones over religious conservative Roy Moore, a campaign he covered more comprehensively than any reporter or news organization in the state or country.
The Kindle version of his book is free on Amazon for only 5 days, starting on December 21st, 2018. It’s currently ranked #1 in Kindle books for biographies and memoirs of professional and academic journalists.
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