As an editor, writer and reporter for the Military Times media group, Andrew deGrandpre has chased stories of national and global significance. He has quizzed Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, met with top generals at the Pentagon and rubbed shoulders with inmates incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., home to the Army's only super-max prison.
Based in Washington, D.C., Military Times chronicles all aspects of the U.S. armed forces. Its four newsweeklies -- Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Corps Times -- and their affiliated Web sites provide multimedia content to a worldwide audience. Be it Afghanistan or Arkansas, Iraq or Idaho, Military Times goes wherever the troops do. Circulation is approximately 250,000.
deGrandpre moved to D.C. from North Topsail Beach, N.C., which borders Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune. In nearby Jacksonville, he ran the city desk for a 25,000-circulation daily newspaper. There, he coached a reporting staff of eight and snatched every opportunity to write about the Marines, their combat exploits and the many social challenges they face at home between deployments.
Through mid-2004, deGrandpre was editor of The News of Orange County, a 5,000-circulation weekly published near Chapel Hill, N.C. He moved there from Chicago where, as a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism, he was a beat reporter assigned to cover Mayor Richard M. Daley and the 50-member city council.
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