After a long run (in relative terms, given the typical span of the modern career position) in corporate publishing, Patrick set out on his own in 1996 as a full-time freelance journalist.
Over the course of the next five years, he published more than 250 paid, bylined articles for a wide array of magazines, newspapers, websites and other publications.
His published magazine and newspaper work includes technical articles about many aspects of the electronics industry, features about arts and entertainment personalities and events, and news reporting about a variety of fields, including state and local government and medical business and technology.
Pat has authored monthly columns about
• state and local government (civic.com magazine and website);
• hi-tech marketing (Portable Design magazine);
• and the electronics industry (electronicsweb.com website),
• and he was also a featured weekly columnist in his hometown newspaper, the Peekskill Herald; and wrote a monthly column in Rhythm and News magazine.
The move to full-time, periodical-length assignments was a natural one for Pat, as he had regularly written for publication on a part-time basis since 1982. As his writing career approached the twenty year mark, he assembled an online retrospective portfolio of his published work that includes a complete list and many samples of the nearly 500 total articles he published between 1982 and 2002. The portfolio site, which has recently been redesigned, is available at:
Although he has in recent years been primarily involved with long-form projects, Pat welcomes interest from editors and publishers who are in need of freelance reporting and writing help. He can be reached via e-mail or at (914) 736-5525.
Patrick J. Walsh: Published Work
Publications
(a partial list)*:
• Portable Design (Pennwell Publishing, Nashua, NH; national; circ. 38,500; market: electrical engineering managers and design engineers) - Contributing Editor; authored monthly “Mobile Markets on the Move” column, and feature and cover articles, 1996-1999.
• Electronic Buyers’ News (CMP, Manhasset, NY; national; circ. 67,000; market: electronics distribution) - regular contributor, 1998-2000.
• Civic.com
(101 Communications, Falls Church, VA; national; circ. 64,000; market: state and local government) - Contributing Editor; authored monthly Information Technology purchasing column, “Buying Strategies,” and feature-length articles, 1999-2001.
• Electronics Web (Vertical Net, Horsham, PA; market: electronics industry managers and design engineers) - authored monthly column “Walsh’s Watch,” covering hi-tech marketing and technology trends.
• MD Computing (Springer-Verlag, Inc., New York, NY; market: MD sole proprieter and other healthcare professionals) - Contributing Editor; authored feature articles including cover story in November/December, 2000 issue.
• Communications System Design (Miller Freeman, San Francisco, CA; market: electrical engineering managers and design engineers) - authored Buyer’s Guide to Communications Processors, September, 1999.
• Smart Computing PC Novice (Sandhills Publishing, Lincoln, NE; mass market) - Contributed several articles about computing.
• Poughkeepsie Journal (Gannett daily newspaper, Poughkeepsie, NY) - wrote feature articles for Family Weekend Planner section.
• Rhythm & News (Drezden Publishing, Wappingers Falls, NY; monthly circ. 25,000) - wrote monthly “Westchester News and Notes” column and feature articles and cover stories based on interviews with national and international recording artists and performers.
• Peekskill Herald (independent weekly newspaper, Peekskill, NY; paid circ. 7,000) - wrote weekly music column “Loud and Sweet” and feature articles based on interviews with national recording artists and performers.
• More Sugar (independent arts & entertatinment newspaper, Putnam, NY; monthly circ. 14,000) - wrote band profiles and music-related news stories.
(*NOTE: company
info, including ownership and circulation data, refers to the period in which Pat worked for each publication, and has in most cases changed since that time).
Samples of Pat’s Published Work:
Other Writing Career Highlights:
• Contributed comments to article about most useful books on the U.S. Space Program (“What One Book,” Bookmarks, January/February, 2007).
• Published Op-Ed about future course of the U.S. space program (“A New Mission for America in Space”) in daily Gannett newspaper Journal News, September 24, 2003).
• Published more than 250 paid, bylined articles since launch of full-time freelance writing career in 1996.
• Authored 250 new product reviews, 3 feature articles for electronics industry new product tabloid EE Product News, 1989-1996.
• Wrote 24 articles, including major features about the Kennedys and Manhattanville, and the college choir, for Manhattanville College newspaper Touchstone, 1991-1992.
• Editor in Chief, Lady Setter Gazette newspaper, covering women’s collegiate basketball, 1985.
• Short story “Thieves” (PLM, Fall, 1985) awarded Silver Medal certificate by Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
• Awarded “Second Place, Poetry” award, PLM, Fall, 1984 for poem “Joel.”
• Awarded “First Place, Poetry” award in annual competition of the Pace Literary Magazine (PLM), Fall, 1983, for epic poem “A Further Adventure of Sir Gawain.”
• Awarded “Best Feature” by American Scholastic Press Association for “Twelve years and a thousand summers ago. . .” (new morning, December 12, 1983), a feature article based on interviews with veterans of the Vietnam War.
