Anders Gyllenhaal
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Anders Gyllenhaal

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Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal are long-time journalists devoting their time to writing about birds and bird conservation, including a new book published by Simon & Schuster called “A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save our Vanishing birds.’’ Beverly has been a reporter, editor, syndicated columnist and cookbook author, whose "Desperation Dinners'' series has a quarter million books in print. Anders has been a reporter, editor, photographer and top newsroom leader over a 40-year career in newspapers, digital media and publishing. Anders and Beverly launched their latest chapter after retiring from full-time work. They publish a website called “FlyingLessons.US: What We’re Learning from the Birds,’’ and have written for newspapers and magazines from The Washington Post to the Tampa Bay Times. Before his retirement in 2018, Anders was the former editorial director for the nation’s second largest local news company and the top editor at newsrooms in Miami, Minneapolis, Raleigh and Washington, D.C. He is currently a founding board member of Journalism Funding Partners, a nonprofit organization that helps fund local news initiatives across the country. He’s been leader in journalism for many years, teaching at George Washington University and serving in board positions at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the Pulitzer Prizes, the American Society of News Editors and the InterAmerican Press Association. Beverly began her career as a features writer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, then worked at The Miami Herald as a reporter, news editor, food editor and restaurant critic. She went on to start her own syndicated columns on parenting and later cooking. She and her partner, Alicia Ross, published three Desperation Dinners books and operated a website for many years. Anders and Beverly’s book on bird conservation across the hemisphere grew out of their research and writing following the revelation that a third of the breeding birds in North America have been lost over the past 50 years. They began to write about the work underway to confront these losses, with led to the book project. They’ve traveled 25,000 researching this story over the past two years. Anders and, Beverly have two grown children, Sam and Grey. They live in Raleigh, North Carolina, but spend about half the year traveling to keep up with the birds.
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