Len Lazarick is the founding editor and publisher of MarylandReporter.com and is currently the president of its nonprofit corporation and chairman of its board
He was formerly the State House bureau chief of the daily Baltimore Examiner from its start in April 2006 to its demise in February 2009.
In the 1980s, Len was State House chief and political editor of Patuxent Publishing, then a chain of 13 weeklies, and in 1997, was senior associate producer at Maryland Public Television for a C-Span-style coverage of State House hearings. He has been an editor at numerous publications large and small, including the national copy desk of The Washington Post for eight years. From 1988 to 1996, he was managing editor of Patuxent Publishing’s nine Baltimore County papers where he headed a staff of 30 editors, reporters and editorial assistants. Len spent eight years as the news editor and political columnist for The Business Monthly circulating in Howard and Anne Arundel counties and was editor of the Trustee Quarterly for the national Association of Community College Trustees.
Len also spent a year as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He teaches East Asian history at Howard Community College in Columbia, Md. where he has also taught state and local government. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Boston College and a master’s degree in East Asian history from the University of Maryland College Park.
He was the 2022 president of the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association (MDDC) and is a member of both the Maryland and D.C. chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, where he is a past president of the Maryland chapter. He and MarylandReporter.com are members of the National Newspaper Association..
He can be reached at [email protected].
Contributing Editor Cynthia Prairie has been a newspaper editor for more than 25 years. She has worked for the Raleigh Times, The Baltimore News American, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Prince George’s Journal and Baltimore County newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing chain, including overseeing The Jeffersonian when it was a two-day a week business publication.
Cynthia has won numerous state awards, including the Maryland State Bar Association’s Gavel Award.
Cynthia compiles and edits the daily State Roundup. She is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She can be reached at [email protected]. She lives on a farm in Chester, Vermont, and publishes the Chester Telegraph news website.
State Roundup contributor Leslie Hunt is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in community journalism, having served as a columnist, reporter, and editor for both print and digital news outlets, including Capital Gazette Newspapers and AOL Patch.com. Leslie was recognized for her work at the Capital newspaper with a YWCA TWIN (Tribute to Women & Industry) award. A Towson University alumni, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications and currently works in the Learner Support Services division at Anne Arundel Community College.
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