kredacter Profile

Keith Girard has 35 years of experience as a reporter, editor-in-chief, senior media executive and most recently novelist.  His career began in Washington, D.C. He worked there as reporter and editor for 18 years, starting out as a reporter/intern in the Washington bureau of South Carolina’s leading newspaper The State. He witnessed firsthand and wrote about the unfolding Watergate scandal in 1974.  He became a reporter for The Washington Post in 1984. In his reporting career he covered such stories as the Invasion of Grenada, the Nicaraguan civil war, how U.S. companies provided Saddam Hussein with the poison gas, the Reagan-era financial meltdown, the BCCI scandal and Operation Desert Storm. In 1992, he became editor-in-chief of The Daily Record in Maryland. He was also editor-in-chief of InvestmentNews and Billboard magazine in New York City.  Keith has won nearly two dozen journalism awards for feature writing, general reporting, investigative reporting, editorials, headlines, and publication design. He has written one book, on the role of the Marines in Operation Desert Shield/Storm. In 1982, he was named one of the 100 future leaders of Washington, D.C., by Washingtonian magazine. He has a keen interest in history, science fiction, horror and politics. One of his books may combine all four.