New writer joins County News staff

(in photo at right: County News's new senior writer, Kevin Wilcox, dives into his first assignment.)

County News is once again fully staffed , with the addition of Kevin Wilcox, who joined NACo in late September as a senior writer.

Wilcox, a Morgantown, W.Va. native, has a bachelor's and a master's degree in journalism from West Virginia University (WVU). While working on his bachelor's degree at WVU, he served for a year as editor of the campus newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum.

His professional experience includes four years as a reporter and copy editor for Morgantown's daily newspaper, the Dominion Post, where he won a Keystone Press Association Award for front page composition. He was later a staff writer at WVU, where he worked at a clearinghouse on environmental issues. Most recently he was a graduate assistant at WVU's Office of Sponsored Programs, producing a monthly newsletter about grant and funding opportunities.

In 1993, he won America's Best, a national screenwriting contest, in the television script category.