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 BFNN Staff: 

Dave Kinchen began his journalism career in January 1966 as a general assignment reporter for the Hammond (Ind.) Times. Following his graduation from Northern Illinois University in 1961 (B.A. with honors, English major), he worked for several yeas as an insurance claims adjuster for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in Chicago and Northern Indiana.
 
From Hammond, Kinchen moved later in 1966 to the new Bloomington (Ind.) Tribune, a state-of-the-art start-up daily. He left the Tribune in the fall of 1967 to join the staff of the Milwaukee Sentinel. He stayed at The Sentinel until the beginning of 1976, when he joined the real estate staff of the Los Angeles Times. His career at The Times lasted until the summer of 1990. He worked in public relations before relocating to Hinton WV in 1992, during one of the worst recessions ever experienced in California. In 1993 Kinchen was hired as a copy editor by the Register-Herald in Beckley. By the time he retired in 2000, he was the business and labor editor. He also produced a weekly book column, reviewing hundreds of books from 1995 to 2000.

News Editor: Craig Hammond (chammond@bluefieldnews.net)

Craig Hammond is the host of “Radioactive,” a radio talk show on WHIS-AM in Bluefield. He is also news editor of Bluefieldnews.net. and is a former mayor of Bluefield, W.Va.

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 Contributing Writers: 

Jeff Henson — Local, Police, National Politics
Mike Bayham — Nationally Syndicated Columnist
David Peyton — Local Commentary
Scott Caserta — Local News and City Hall
Art Harvath — Local News, Book Reviews/Hinton Correspondent
David M. Kinchen (dkinchen@hintonnews.net) — Photographer/Bluefield Correspondant
Craig Hammond (chammond@bluefieldnews.net) — Photographer/Bluefield Correspondant
David Hammond — Sports & Entertainment
Brandon Woolum — Correspondent/Photographer
Stephen N. Reed — State News/Politics
Tony Rutherford (rutherford@huntingtonnews.net) — Entertainment
Chris Spencer — Photographer/Sports & Local News
Grant Traylor — Sports/Local News
Eve Marcum-Atkinson (webmaster@huntingtonnews.net) — Webmaster
James Atkinson — Assistant Webmaster
James Isaacs (jisaacs@huntingtonnews.net) — Assistant Webmaster

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