JanBrogan.com
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Author Jan Brogan, mystery author and freelance journalist, author of Final Copy and A Confidential Source, set in Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island.
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I spent about twenty years working as a journalist, and despite the competitive egos and down-and-dirty politics I feature in my novels, I miss the newsroom, which is a much nicer place than I let on.
Today, I’m only a part-time journalist, working mostly from home as a correspondent for The Boston Globe and as a freelance magazine writer. But in my early years, I reported on everything from biotechnology to school lunch menus at The Worcester Telegram in Massachusetts and later was able to hone my investigative skills at The Providence Journal in Rhode Island, where I got to cover the kind of innovative financial corruption that makes that state such a great place to be a reporter.
I grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, where I learned to wear tight clothes and a lot of makeup. Clifton was both urban and very small town. My father, a lawyer and former city counselor, knew everyone – especially the cops, which made my teenage years challenging. But my father also knew an infamous cop charged with murder. After the acquittal, I was granted an interview and wrote my first murder story at 15 years old for my high school paper.
