Cindy Landrum

Cindy Landrum's desire to become a reporter began when she was a freshman in high school. The school's administration had gone locker to locker confiscating student newspapers because they didn't like the headline on an editorial. The paper was shut down and the advisor canned. Landrum resolved to not allow the press to be silenced again. She majored in journalism and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she was editor of the school's national award-winning student newspaper. In April of her senior year, when it was time to send out resumes to get her first full-time job, there was still three feet of ugly gray snow on the ground. The resumes went south and west. She landed in Seneca in 1984, which was described as a town near Clemson, "you know the team that beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl for the national championship." She's been covering news in the Upstate ever since, first at the Anderson Independent-Mail and then The Greenville News. Landrum, who has won numerous state and national awards, joined the Journal in October 2004, and has covered education, the arts and whatever else her editor dreams up.

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