Don Bishoff has twice been a daily columnist for the Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon: 1976—1977 and from 1983 to the present.
Bishoff was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia; attended high school in Richmond, Virginia; and received his B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1958. The following year he received the M.S. in journalism from Northwestern and in 1966 was a Professional Journalism Fellow (now known as a Knight Fellow) at Stanford University.
In 1959 he was a reporter with the City News Bureau of Chicago. Later in the same year he became a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia, moving to the Register-Guard in 1960. There he has worked as reporter (1960—1968), assistant city editor (1968—1976), daily columnist (1976-1977), associate editor and editorial writer (1977—1983), and again as daily columnist from 1983. He also wrote a weekly column for the Register-Guard from 1961 to 1976 and was drama reviewer from 1967 to 1984. He has co hosted “Town Meeting,†a two-hour Sunday morning interview and listener call-in program on Eugene’s radio station DAVE-FM, since 1992.
(from Biographical dictionary of American newspaper columnists)
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