The Media Scrum
Mark Saal and Don Porter, co-hosts of The Media Scrum, have a combined 59 years worth of experience in Utah newspaper (and broadcast) journalism. Even though both have moved on to other lines of work — Don is a retired public relations manager and Mark as a high school English teacher — they remain intensely interested in the condition of journalism in the Beehive State and elsewhere. This biweekly podcast features interviews with people who also share an interest in, and have experience with, Utah news media and beyond. Send your comments and suggested guests and topics to themediascrum@hotmail.com.
The Media Scrum
Pat Bean
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The Media Scrum/Pat Bean
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Season 1
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Episode 46
This week at The Media Scrum we have a conversation with Pat Bean, who had five kids by age 25, then talked her way into a newspaper career, where she worked for 37 years. She’s currently writing a memoir, tentatively titled “Between Wars” – that’s her title because she says her first significant bylined story was an interview with a mother whose son had been killed in Vietnam and one of her last pieces of journalism was an opinion column urging President Bush not to send American troops into Iraq during the wake of 9/11. Pat has worked at several newspapers, including those in Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Ogden and Logan.