Meet the Author
Pippin Ross
I NEVER MEANT TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT ME. UNTIL I REALIZED I HAD STUFF ABOUT LIFE’S HARD KNOCKS EXPRESSED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE—ESPECIALLY WOMEN.
1st PERSON, ME, I stuff? YUCK!
A QUICK CHECK-IN TO CONFIRM HER FACTS:
Pippin Ross is a seasoned journalist with an extensive career in both print and broadcast. She earned her Journalism and Communication Studies degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ross spent three decades doing what she describes by delivering a commercial radio tone to wrap a newscast: “That’s it. That’s What’s Happening, You Heard It! Right Here! Right Now!”
Newspaper and magazine gigs were a background to her career with National Public Radio, NPR’s Northeast desk; and affiliates WBUR in Boston and as a news director at WFCR. She co-created and co-hosted the nationally syndicated NPR program Here and Now and contributed as host and reporter for the sports show, Only a Game. WGBH in Cambridge recruited her to host and report on the environmental program, Living on Earth.
Her print work has appeared in publications like The Boston Globe, Yankee Magazine, Commonwealth Magazine, Boston Magazine, New York Times Travel, and many more publications.
Ross’s diverse work on crime, politics, law, education, events, social issues, innovation and creativity always come from what ‘real’ people talk, feel, are upset, confused, or enthralled about.
When asked if she ever wanted to find a different occupation, her response:
“Nope! I have to be always on deadline. If it’s not the clock’s minute and second hand in my face, I go off on a tangent, a distraction, I see, hear, feel something I have to check out.
I have ‘C.C. D’.” (Chronic Curiosity Distractionists.)
CRASH COURSE confirms her bravado is for real!
Lately, her decades as a journalist are overshadowed by the fact employers hesitate to hire an ex-con whose dark history is always internet available.
Ross says, “I’m pretty startled over the stigma of what? Did time for drunk driving displays. No fatality, crash, injury. Happy, healthy, sober and into it as far more interesting than being loaded. Okay, here you go. My version of a far safer human than my neighbor who just had his $19.95 Ghost Gun delivered. being a sober drunk with a driver’s license revoked for life?
Okay. For you?
Just the Facts.