Lyn Riddle

Lyn Riddle began her journalism career on the high desert of Wyoming. It looked like the moon, a rough-and-tumble place that lured thousands of workers to build a huge coal-fired generating plant by day and wreak havoc by night. Political corruption came next. A reporter's paradise. She worked cityside for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner with a cigar-smoking city editor in a rumpled shirt, gray pants and a clip-on tie who demanded precision in reporting and classy writing. Jobs with the Greenville Piedmont and The Greenville News came next and then 15 years of freelance writing for publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Readers Digest. Riddle yearned to write stories that would make a difference in her hometown - Greenville - and went back to The News as projects editor then city editor - her clothes were pressed but the Herald-Examiner journalistic standards were maintained. She came to the Journal as editor in October 2004 because she believes community-based stories will be the salvation of newspapers. Investigative, in-depth reporting will always find a home and that is one reason she is most proud of this Web site.

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