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Dunwoody’s Greg Bluestein balances high-profile reporting, parenthood
See works from twenty-five years of the celebrated photography initiative, offering a complex and layered archive of the region. New commissions will debut alongside some of the most iconic photography projects of the last quarter century. NOVEMBER 5, 2021–FEBRUARY 6, 2022 | RESERVE TICKETS AT HIGH.ORG Picturing the South: 25 Years is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. MAJOR FUNDING IS PROVIDED BY
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Richard Misrach (American, born 1949), Norco Cumulus Cloud, Shell Oil Refinery, Norco, Louisiana, 1998, printed 2012, pigmented inkjet print, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H. B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust, Lucinda W. Bunnen, and High Museum of Art Enhancement Fund, 2012.6. © Richard Misrach 1998. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, Pace/MacGill Gallery, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art.
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20 NOVEMBER 2021 | REPORTER NEWSPAPERS
Dunwoody resident and AJC political reporter Greg Bluestein has written a book called “Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power,” which comes out in March 2022. (Isadora Pennington) BY BETH E. CONCEPCIÓN Dunwoody resident Greg Bluestein wears many hats: Atlanta Journal-Constitution political reporter, host of the Politically Georgia podcast, and moderator of political forums, to name just a few. One of his most important roles is that of a dad. Immediately after moderating a recent Atlanta mayoral forum, he was helping his daughters Brooke, 7, and Nicole, 10, with homework. “Brooke, am I good at subtraction?” Bluestein asked his daughter. “No!” came the quick and definitive answer. But Bluestein is good at writing about Georgia politics – a job he has had for nearly 10 years at the AJC. He’s also written for the Savannah Morning News, the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Greg Bluestein Press. He traces his interest in journalism back to the fourth grade when I.J. Rosenberg, former AJC sports reporter and broadcast personality, visited his class at Hebrew Academy in Sandy Springs. “I told my mom, ‘I want to be a reporter.’ She said, ‘Cool. You have to learn how to type,’” Bluestein said. He said that concerned him enough that he went down the medicine path for a bit. His interest in journalism returned when he was a junior at North Springs High School after he met a classmate’s CNN-employed father. Bluestein started
writing for the Oracle, the student newspaper. He went to University of Georgia, double majored in newspaper journalism and political science, and wrote for the UGA student newspaper, The Red & Black. He covered student government and larger stories such as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s 2002 Senate race. “It’s a perfect preparing ground for real-life journalism, because it is real-life journalism,” he said. “You are writing stories that affect lives.” Bluestein became editor in chief of The Red & Black in his senior year. He earned an internship with the Associated Press after his 2004 graduation. He then worked for the Fulton County Daily Report before returning to the Associated Press. He started at the AJC in 2012. “No matter where you work, you’ve got to write to your audience,” he said. “You’ve got to understand who your readers, your listeners, your viewers -- whoever they are – and write stories that affect them.” Bluestein covered the 2016 presidential election from the road. “I was everywhere around the country covering the presidential race. It was a great race, and I was covering it through a Georgia lens. But part of the reason I was there was because the story was not really in Georgia,” he said. “Georgia was seen as a Republican stronghold.” It was 2017 when things started to
“You’ve got to understand who your readers, your listeners, your viewers — whoever they are — and write stories that affect them.”
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