Bob Carney
Bob Carney, a native Mississippian (but born in New York City) now
lives in Daphne, Alabama - across the bay from Mobile. A graduate of
Meridian High School, he attended the University of Mississippi (Ole
Miss). Active in civic, social and political circles, he is married to
Louise Rosson Carney, journalist and freelance writer, and has two grown
children: Robert, Jr., and Joann, an adopted daughter Gloria, and three
grandchildren, Katie, Walker and Wallis.
He has been privileged
to travel extensively to such places as Hong Kong, China, Singapore,
Bangkok, Tokyo, and Russia. Also he traveled on a "Friendship Force"
trip to Israel and Turkey.
Going to Europe on several
occasions, he was lucky to visit practically all the countries, and on
one trip to England in the early 60's, he returned from London to New
York on the same BOAC flight with Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he
interviewed on the plane.
On more recent trips, his wife Louise
accompanied him to Hawaii in 1990, to Australia and New Zealand in 1991,
and back to Europe in late 1994, where, in celebration of his 80th
birthday and their fifth wedding anniversary, they experienced first
hand a ride beneath the English Channel through the new "Chunnel."
Carney's
first book What Happened At The Atlanta Times told the story of
a new metropolitan newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, its tremendous success
and sad downfall. Written in 1969, the book was well-received, and
warranted a favorable review by Ronald T. Farrar, Chairman of the
Department of Journalism at Ole Miss.
Carney's career has
covered more than 35 years of work with newspapers. He retired as Vice
President of Family Weekly, CBS, in 1981. He served four years
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