Blog
James Bettinger
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 10/24/2011 09:07:00
- In: General
Organization: Knight Fellowship/Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Title: Director
Hometown: Grew up in Belmont, a San Francisco suburb. Now in Palo Alto, CA
First paying job: Jurupa correspondent for Riverside Press-Enterprise, which listed my home phone in its Yellow Pages heading.
Mentor or role model: Editors Norman Cherniss & Mel Opotowsky; Knight Fellowship directors Lyle Nelson and Jim Risser
If I weren't an editor I'd be: An FM disk jockey
To unwind I: Listen to music — rock, pop, folk, country, Latin, classical
Favorite book, TV show or movie: (Book) "All The King's Men," (TV Show) "Saving Grace," (Movie) "High Fidelity."
What music I am listening to: Just got a new turntable, re-aquainting myself with vintage vinyl — Baez, Dylan, Stones, Beatles, Airplane, Dead.