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. This is the final of edition of the podcast series. Earlier editions were posted Wednesday and Thursday at msonewsports.com
Retired Item Writer Steve Krause with Bill Newell (Episode #3)
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.
