User:Fitzbeat

Fitzbeat is the user name for Mark Fitzgerald, a longtime writer and editor with particular expertise in the newspaper industry. He has served as editor at large and editor for Editor & Publisher, the trade journal once known as the "bible of the newspaper industry." He is currently publications editor for the Inland Press Association, a trade group of approximately 1,000 newspapers headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. He lives in the 41st Ward of the city of Chicago with his wife, and has two adult sons. He tweets at @fitzbeat.