Gary Hanauer, San Francisco

Hanauer has more than 20 years of hard news experience. Prior to joining INK, Hanauer was one of America's most prolific freelance writers. Between 1975 and 1987, he placed nearly 800 feature articles in a total of more than 100 publications including Readers Digest, Playboy, TV Guide, Penthouse, Family Circle, Science Digest and House and Garden. Over a 12-year span, Hanauer served as a regular contributor to 11 of the nation's top 15 publications (as rated by circulation).

Before becoming a freelance writer, Hanauer was a staff correspondent for the Los Angeles bureaus of Time and The Associated Press, reporting on such stories as the Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 and the student unrest at the University of California in 1970. In 1972, Hanauer was appointed editor-in-chief of California Industry magazine where he remained for three years. He then served the San Francisco bureau of Business Week as a reporter for three years.

By placing as many as 100 articles a year, Hanauer achieved what was called "an unchallenged Northern California record" in MediaFile, the newsletter of Media Alliance, a San Francisco-based writer's group. He also won numerous honors, including a Peninsula Press Club First Place Award and a Public Relations Society of America Honorable Achievement for his 1981 humor article about the prune industry that appeared in both the San Jose Mercury News and American Way.

Hanauer himself has been featured in articles in the San Francisco Examiner and Oakland Tribune. The Los Angeles Times' Jack Smith, one of the country's best-known columnists, wrote in a column entitled, "A Hanauer By Any Other Name," about the sheer variety of media contacts Hanauer developed in his career.

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