After a 30-year absence, Slim Smith is returning to the Dispatch.
Smith, who worked as a sports reporter at the Dispatch in 1982, now will be covering Starkville and surrounding communities at the Starkville bureau of The Dispatch.
A Tupelo native who this month will graduate of Mississippi State University, Smith previously worked as sports editor at the Biloxi Sun Herald, then in northern California and at The San Francisco Examiner in San Francisco, Calif. He left San Francisco in 1998 to become sports editor at the East Valley Tribune in suburban Phoenix, where he stayed until 2007, the last two years as the paper’s metro columnist.
“We’re delighted to have Slim back at The Dispatch,” said Peter Imes, operations manager. “His experience and writing skills will go far to enhance not only our Starkville coverage but the newspaper as a whole.”
Smith can be reached at our Starkville bureau at 662-323-2424 or via email at [email protected].
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