Before embarking on a career in journalism in the City of Roses at the age of 33, John Rumler worked in the nation's heartland at more than a dozen jobs, including a stints at a meat packing plant, as a railroad laborer, metal tender, hotel desk clerk, allied health technician, and job placement specialist.

Over the last decade his writing career is proving equally diverse.

A happily transplanted mid-Westerner, John has penned more than 300 articles for Portland area publications including Oregon Business Magazine, The Portland Business Journal, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, and The Daily Journal of Commerce. In addition, he has written for national publications ranging from ASIANWEEK to The Wall Street Journal.

Primarily a business writer, John also covers environmental, spiritual, and cultural issues for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, some community based and others in San Francisco, Seattle, and London.

In 1993, John received the Rookie of the Year Award from the Oregon chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and he later earned recognition for his spot news coverage and investigative reporting skills.

Reporting on wide ranging subjects-from the $20 million overhaul of Howard Hughes' old ship, the Glomar Explorer, to the Enola Hill controversy on Mt. Hood National Forest, to a scathing expose on the state's lottery system---keeps John challenged and stimulated.

"I love not knowing what story is around the next bend," he says. "That adventure and sense of discovery is what makes journalism so attractive and exciting to me."

John lives with his wife, Yae Sook, in Southeast Portland near Mt. Tabor Park where the couple try to keep up with Buddy and Susie, their two Labradors.

John is a member of the Portland Chapter of the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, Willamette Writers, the Society of
Professional Journalists, and a former board member of Northwest Writers, Inc.

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