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Google map of a reporter’s career


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Google map of a reporter's career   John TedescoI was working on my clips page over the holidays and thought it’d be cool to make a new Google map of my past stories. Each dot on the map is a dateline for an article. I was a little amazed by the variety of far-flung locales I’ve visited in this big state. And I’m not even done plugging in every story.

You always hear about how lame newspapers are. But over the past 12 years, the Express-News paid me to drive to these places and tell unique stories about unique people. How cool is that?