Alan Kianoff

Birmingham, Alabama Area United States

Writer and Editor

Writing / Publishing

Newspapers were delivered three times a day in my house growing up. Dad had to know about the world, and the hometown. It made me curious. So, maybe not surprising that I’d become the one to ask questions and write about it.  My career started with columns at a morning newspaper in Indiana. Got a problem with a company, agency or government? Write Action Line and I’d investigate. My persistence – and the power of the press – brought results...and an interesting tale of how it happened.  Over the next decade I was a newspaper reporter in 3 states. I wrote a lot about business and at the end, government business as city reporter for Alabama’s largest morning daily