Colleen Fitzpatrick

She was managing editor of Fine Gardening magazine. She has had a variety of editing and reporting jobs at newspapers nationwide. Her jobs ranged from reporter at the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., The Fresno (Calif.) Bee and The Providence (R.I.) Journal to national reporter at The Detroit News. In addition, she has been bureau manager at The Providence Journal, city editor at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., and assistant news editor with Knight Ridder in Washington, D.C. She began her career in 1980 as a science-reporting intern at the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News.