The Park Record’s new editor keen to the responsibility of helming a community newspaper

Robert Meyerowitz describes journalism as a service

Award-winning journalist Robert Meyerowitz is The Park Record’s new editor. Meyerowitz, who has covered wars and conflicts in Central America and the Middle East, comes to Park City after working as an editor for Ballantine Communications, where he edited opinion pages for The Durango Herald and The Journal in Cortez, both in Colorado. (David Jackson / Park Record)
Award-winning journalist Robert Meyerowitz is The Park Record’s new editor. Meyerowitz, who has covered wars and conflicts in Central America and the Middle East, comes to Park City after working as an editor for Ballantine Communications, where he edited opinion pages for The Durango Herald and The Journal in Cortez, both in Colorado. (David Jackson / Park Record)
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Robert Meyerowitz remembers his days as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press Radio and National Public Radio when he would report about wars and conflicts from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba and Israel.

“It became a portal to adventure for me,” he said. “I was so young and dumb, and I happily go off to the next war and the next war and thought it was pretty cool. I never worried about my own safety.”

These days, Meyerowitz has other priorities like Charlie, his 11-year-old border collie, and his new position as editor of The Park Record (in Park City, Utah), one of the oldest published newspapers west of the Mississippi River.

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