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Steve Chawkins

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Steve Chawkins has been a writer and editor at newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico and California. He retired in 2015 after 21 years at the Los Angeles Times.

“He watched a mouse saunter up the electric cord leading to the nonfunctioning clock over the hotel bar and asked the Chinese waitress in German whether it was a tiger.”

—Henry Kamm, The New York Times, Feb. 17, 1973: “Regional Truce Teams Unable to Act”
March 1, 2017
The art of the obituary: It's a dying one

The art of the obituary: It’s a dying one

As newsrooms shrink, a former obit writer mourns the loss of bustling staffs that took deadline dives into fascinating lives, and looks fondly at the New York Times piece marking…
February 21, 2017