My First Job ...

Michael Chihak, publisher and editor,
Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen

Night police-beat reporter for the Tucson Citizen. Four months after I took the job in 1970, an 11-story hotel in downtown Tucson caught fire, and 29 people died. I was the first Citizen reporter on the scene and spent the next 30 hours reporting and writing.
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