Mike Gangloff

Mr. Gangloff has been a reporter and editor for eight years at The Roanoke Times, where he has helped develop an online presentation for breaking news updates. He served as the coordinator and re-writer during two events that generated more Web readership than anything in the paper's history -- the killing of 32 people on Virginia Tech's campus in April 2007 -- and earlier that academic year, a prisoner escape and double murder that shut down the university on its first day of classes. He presently is the paper's federal courts reporter. Mr. Gangloff's on-line activity began with bulletin board discussions of independent music and home-brewing during the last years before the emergence of the World Wide Web -- a largely forgotten era when just knowing of the existence of Internet bulletin boards was enough to score a column-writing spot at the Richmond (Va.) City Paper. He is now writing a history of privacy laws and is helping a talented online designer create a multimedia package that untangles the relationships among 20 defendants in a high-profile police corruption case. Mr. Gangloff is a native of Lexington, Ky., and a graduate of Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth universities. Before coming to The Roanoke Times, he spent about a dozen years as a reporter at smaller papers across Virginia, freelancing and briefly serving as technical editor of the journal NeuroRehabilitation.