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Michael Days Executive Vice President and Philadelphia Daily News Editor
Since joining the paper he has served in a number of supervisory positions, including that of Managing Editor and Deputy Managing Editor, before being named the paper's editor in 2005. He joined the staff in January 1986 as a reporter, moving quickly to City Hall to cover former Mayor W. Wilson Goode. He has also covered the Philadelphia public school system for the paper. Days had directed for three years the paper's Urban Journalism Workshop, which is geared primarily to high school students interested in careers in journalism. He came to the Daily News from the Philadelphia bureau of The Wall Street Journal, where he had covered utilities and consumer product companies. He's worked at the Louisville Courier-Journal as both a general assignment reporter and higher education/private schools reporter; and at the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. in a number of positions -- cops reporter, general assignment reporter, features writer and TV-Radio critic. Prior to moving to Rochester, he served a one-year internship at the Minneapolis Tribune.Days is a Philadelphia native. He was graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He earned a master's degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is a McCormick Tribune Fellow and a graduate of the Media Management Center’s Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University. Days is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a long-time member of the National Association of Minority Media Executives, and the National Association of Black Journalists. He is a former regional director of NABJ. He has served on the advisory board of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, and is currently on the board of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors. He has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and recently received the Lillian Award, for outstanding service to journalism, from the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. He and his spouse, Angela Dodson, have four sons. |