LYNN (Podcast Series) Earlier this month Steve Krause retired from the Daily Item in Lynn wrapping up a 42 year career at the newspaper. This week Steve joins Bill Newell to discuss his career as they weave in local news and sports stories into a three part podcast series. The next editions of the podcast will be available Thursday and Friday at msonewsports.com
Retired Item Writer Steve Krause with Bill Newell (Episode #1)
Steve’s Final Column – The End is Near – Click Here
Steve Krause was the Daily Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created
a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.
Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics.
