{"id":2179,"date":"2023-11-03T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2023-11-03T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:23:25","slug":"dave-mitchell-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Dave Mitchell, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dave Mitchell <\/strong>became a hero to we young news-sters in 1979 when his tiny weekly newspaper, The Point Reyes Light, took on the \u201cviolent drug rehabilitation cult Synanon\u201d and won a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave once worked for the San Francisco Examiner, where I also mainlined ink for a number of years under the management of Will Hearst. Dave, though, was too much of an iconoclast for a corporate newsroom and he eventually returned to the Light, where he continued to afflict the comfortable until he sold the weekly in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some years later I also left daily journalism to return to my first love, photography, and when I got the chance to photograph Dave for a regional magazine it was a thrill. I photographed him in 2003 outside his home in Point Reyes Station, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave called it #30 a few days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n