John Gallagher

John T. Gallagher (born 1949) is an American retired business journalist and author. He lives in Detroit, Michigan, and worked at the Detroit Free Press newspaper for more than 30 years.

Biography John Gallagher was born in New York City. His first role was at the City News Bureau of Chicago, a cooperative news agency where he was able to learn about journalism while on the job. Gallagher joined the Democrat and Chronicle daily newspaper in Rochester, New York in 1978. Gallagher documented Detroit's history for more than three decades, including the history of the auto industry. He participated in the Detroit newspaper strike in 1995, as one of the members of the Newspaper Guild labor union. In 2017, he was inducted into the Michigan Journalist Hall of Fame, awarded by Michigan State University School of Journalism. Rust Belt Reporter: A Memoir (2024), is an autobiographical memoir in which Gallagher highlighted his hopeful ideas about Detroit's urban recovery, in light of the city's economic collapse and in an era which traditional newspaper publishing and journalism is in decline.

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