Tom Sherwood, an analyst on WAMU's Politics Hour on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and former long-time WRC TV politics reporter, was born and raised in Atlanta and started his career working as a copy boy for the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 1964 right out of high school. He remembers then AJC Publisher Robert McGill who “confronted all of the Civil Rights demons.”, and that “the paper led on Civil Rights.” Sherwood continued his career at The Washington Post until 1989 when he left to join WRC TV as their politics reporter until recently. Andy and Tom Sherwood’s conversation includes:
• Atlanta and South Carolina | Tom Sherwood’s Southern Family
• Tom Sherwood’s Distinct Voice
• On Growing Up in Atlanta, Georgia and Working for the Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Ralph McGill – The AJC and Civil Rights
• Advice to Journalism Students About Being a Journalist: “it opens doors to everything and anything that you want to see and do.”
• Why Tom Sherwood Left The Post for WRC
• On Starting in TV
• In the Navy at the Navy Yard – A Yeoman’s Life
• On Moving to Southwest DC Before it Became The Wharf
• Too Many People and Too Much Traffic
• On Covering Our Town as a Reporter Today
• No “One Man Band” Reporting for Sherwood – Focus on the Technical or the Story
• The Kojo Nnamdi Show and Friday’s Politics Hour
• Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
• Sherwood’s Analogy of DC’s Structure: A Wedding Cake
• An Out of Towner’s Misconception of DC May Impact Voting Rights for the City