Ed Kociela is an award-winning newspaperman with nearly 40 years of professional writing experience, beginning at a small daily newspaper in southern California. He has worked at metros, including a tour of duty at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, once one of the liveliest newspapers in the country.
He is now City Editor and columnist for The Spectrum, a daily St. George, Utah newspaper.
His awards include honors from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists.
Ed's column appears regularly online at a number of Web sites. He is also a regular guest on KNPR radio's State of Nevada program in Las Vegas.
Ed has also written several screenplays and his first venture as a playwright resulted in his play, "Downwinders," being accepted as one of only three plays selected for readings at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's "Plays in Progress" series in 2005.
Contact him at: ed@edkociela.com
