Literary agent: BNC adds an acclaimed author-innovator to its ranks.

AuthorMildenberg, David
PositionUp Front - Business North Carolina - Editorial

In case you haven't noticed, print media isn't the world's most robust industry these days. Parents whose kids seek journalism careers shudder, worried that their darlings will face lifelong challenges of keeping the rent paid and refrigerator stocked. So wouldn't you know it that in his first "Town Square" column for Business North Carolina, Editorial Director Jim Dodson writes about the glory days of buggy manufacturing, an industry that's a cliche for failure to adapt. But Jim, who joined us in February under our new ownership, has earned a privilege to write what he pleases after a career of penning critically acclaimed books and--defying many print-media skeptics --helping shepherd three new arts and culture magazines over the last decade.

Jim is an East Carolina University alum who started in newspapers in Greensboro, where he grew up. (ECU named him a distinguished alumnus.) He worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Yankee Magazine, but is best known as a top-shelf golf writer. His six golf books include Final Rounds, a 1996 memoir of hitting the links with his father that has sold more than 500,000 copies, and American Triumvirate, a portrait of Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson and Sam Snead that was named a top 100 book by The New York Times in 2012.

Jim's reputation prompted David Woronoff, publisher of The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines, to ask him to cover the U.S. Open Championship at Pinehurst in 2005. A week turned into a decade; Dodson and his wife, Wendy, left Maine to...

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