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Dennis Roddy
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Dennis Roddy (born 1954 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist who was special assistant to former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett,[1] and a former columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.[2]

Education

A native of

United Steelworkers of America.[3] He attended St. Benedict's parochial school in Geistown, Pennsylvania.[3] He attended the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. As a student, he took a part-time job as a newswriter at WJAC-TV and later the Nanty Glo Journal and the Portage Dispatch.[3]

Career

Following graduation, Roddy accepted a position at the

Scripps Howard News Service began syndicating his political column across a dozen newspapers across the country.[2]

An August 1998 profile of Roddy in Pittsburgh City Paper described him as having a knack for "getting into places other reporters find unobtainable -- the USAir jet crash site, President Clinton's limousine, a hotel elevator with presidential candidate Gary Hart and an attractive young woman."[3] The article said that Roddy's "wit, his storytelling skills, his Irishness, infuse the paper. Readers -- whether they notice his name on top of stories or not -- gain their impression of what's going on around Pittsburgh, what's amusing and what's tragic about it, from Roddy. Many of the stories he tells linger in the mind a long time."[3]

His notable articles have included a profile of

Irish Catholic upbringing.[3]

In September 2007, Roddy wrote an article about the impending divorce between Pittsburgh billionaire newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife and his wife Margaret Ritchie Battle Scaife.[4] The reporting in the article was supported by documents that Roddy obtained from documents inadvertently published on the internet by the Allegheny County Family Court.[5] Scaife's suit and criminal complaints against Roddy were thrown out of court.[5][6]

Other writings and awards

Roddy wrote the foreword to the book Pennsylvania 24/7 by Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen.[7] His work has been cited in A Force Upon the Plain by Kenneth S. Stern,[8] The Hunting of the President by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons,[9] and Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskind.[10]

In 2000, he was named "top columnist in the nation" by the

PolitickerPA.com named him one of the "Most Powerful Political Reporters" in Pennsylvania.[13]

References

  1. ^ Potter, Chris (2012-02-24). "Dennis Roddy lives! And he may be posting in a blog near you!". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  2. ^ a b c d "Columnist - Dennis Roddy". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. PG Publishing Co., Inc.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hammond, Ruth (August 1998). "Portrait of the Artist As a News Man". Pittsburgh City Paper.
  4. ^ Roddy, Dennis (September 16, 2007). "Millions up for grabs in Scaife divorce fight". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  5. ^ a b Dietch, Charlie (October 4, 2007). "DA investigating Post-Gazette's use of Scaife court records". Pittsburgh City Paper.
  6. ^ Twedt, Steve (September 23, 2007). "Scaife demands documents from Post-Gazette". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  7. OCLC 56605994
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  8. OCLC 33664807
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  9. OCLC 44266083
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  10. OCLC 243544894
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  11. Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. 27 September 2004. Archived from the original
    on 2005-03-21.
  12. ^ "Pennsylvania's Most Influential Reporters". PoliticsPA. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09.
  13. PolitickerPA.com. The Observer Media Group.[permanent dead link
    ]

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