Theresa Waldrop, Patch Staff
- Stone Mountain-Lithonia, GA
<b>Theresa Waldrop</b>
<b>Phone: </b>770-235-5559<b><br>Hometown: </b>Lilburn, Georgia<b><br>Birthday: </b>Nov. 13<b><br></b>
Theresa Waldrop's career in journalism began in the early 1980s as a news assistant for Newsweek International in Bonn, Germany. She worked as a reporter for Newsweek, based in Germany and reporting on events around Central and Eastern Europe, before joining Bloomberg News in 1996. At Bloomberg, she worked as a reporter based in Zurich, Switzerland; as a features writer and editor based in Dallas, Texas; and as editor and bureau chief in Vienna, Austria. Most recently, she was a writer/editor for Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit she urges everyone to support.
Theresa has lived with her daughter and husband in Lilburn, Georgia, since 2008. She likes to spend time outdoors with her family when possible, hiking and camping.
<b>Your Beliefs </b><br><i>At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. This disclosure is not a license for you to inject your beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that your beliefs are on the record will cause you to be ever mindful to write, report and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you ever see evidence that we failed in this mission, please let us know.</i><br><br><b>Politics </b><br>I lean to the left, but have always been passionate as a journalist about telling all sides of a story.<br><br><b>Religion</b><br>I was raised as a Baptist and am now a Unitarian Universalist.<br><b><br>Local Hot-Button Issues</b>
School budgets and the consolidation of schools are topics that will be raising parents' hackles in the coming year. Some have complained about the reduction of faculty and the size of classrooms.
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