Dan Newland
Danny Norman Newland (born December 9, 1949 in Wapakoneta, Ohio) is an American freelance journalist, blogger, translator, editor, writer and ghostwriter. He is a former managing editor of the Buenos Aires Herald.
Biography
Danny Norman Newland was born in 1949 in Wapakoneta, Ohio to Norman Dale Newland (1922–2003) and Reba Mae Weber Newland (1923–2003). He is the brother of two siblings, Darla Newland Ginter (1947- ) and Dennis Newland (1953-2005). Newland met Argentine exchange student Virginia Estela Mel at his high school in Wapakoneta in 1968 and married her in Los Angeles, California in 1971, while he was in the Army stationed at Fort MacArthur.[1] They moved to Argentina shortly after Newland was honorably discharged from military service following three years as a musician in the US Army Bands in the United States and Europe.
He joined the staff of the Buenos Aires Herald [2] in 1974[3] and worked for the English-language daily for the next thirteen years, serving as reporter, sub-editor, international editor, general news editor, columnist, editorial-writer and managing editor.[4] The newspaper was renowned for denouncing atrocities in Argentina's Dirty War (mid to late 1970s) during the period in which Newland formed part of the staff.[5][6] As interim editor in 1982 during the Falklands War,[7] he was responsible for independent news coverage of the conflict.[8] Throughout the era of the military dictatorship (1976-1983) Herald writers and editors suffered death threats from the regime forcing news editor Andrew Graham-Yooll in 1976 and editor in chief Robert Cox in 1979 to leave the country. Following these departures, the threats continued against Cox's replacement, James Neilson and against Newland as the newspaper's main editorial writers.[9][10]
After the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo[11] in 2015, Newland wrote: "From mid-1974 through early 1983, I lived in a climate in which I became accustomed to existing, first, with the threat of death by proxy involved in being part of the support team for courageous editorialists, and, later, with direct threats to my own life and to the newspaper that I worked for, as I devoted my own efforts to expressing the paper’s political and moral line. Asked, on occasion, why I did it, when it wasn’t my country or my fight, I’ve always replied that, on the contrary, opposing tyranny and violent fundamentalism of any kind is everyone’s fight no matter where it happens, and that for writers, journalists and political humorists, it’s not a choice, but a moral and professional obligation."[12]
Newland has also worked out of South America as a freelance stringer for a wide range of publications and news organizations in the United States and Britain[4] and as a special projects editor for the Buenos Aires business magazine Apertura.
He writes a twice-monthly blog entitled The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log.[13]
He is also the author of two books: The Rock Garden And Other Stories (2021), and Visions of What Used To Be (2022), both published by Patagonia Yankee Publishing/Amazon.
He is active as a freelance translator, editor and ghostwriter. He is a founding member of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters IAPTI.[14]
Selected works
- Books
- The Rock Garden and Other Stories (2021)
- Visions of What Used To Be (2022)
- Translations
Among others:
- Argentina, A Nation at the Crossroads of Myth and Reality, by Ricardo Zinn (1979).
- Patagonia: Land of Giants, by Daniel Rivademar and Alejandro Winograd (2004).
- Sustainability 2.0, by Ernesto van Peborgh and the Odiseo Team (2008).
- No Reserve: The Limit of Absolute Power, by Martín Redrado (2010).
- Short History of World Religions, by Roberto Vivo (2012).
- War: A Crime Against Humanity, by Roberto Vivo (2014).
References
- ^ Newland, Dan (2016-02-15). "The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log: EXCERPT 5 FROM 'VOICES IN THE STORM' — MARRIED LIFE". The Southern Yankee. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ "Chronicle of a birth foretold - Buenos Aires Herald since 1876". Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Newland, Dan (2016-06-27). "The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log: EXCERPT 7 FROM 'VOICES IN THE STORM' — COURTING THE HERALD". The Southern Yankee. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ a b "Amazon.com: Dan Newland: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Cox, Robert John; Cox, David; Ingham, Harry (2002). En honor a la verdad: memorias desde el exilio de Robert Cox (in Spanish). Ediciones Colihue SRL. p. 159. ISBN 9789505817870.
- ^ Newland, Dan (2017-03-13). "The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log: EXCERPT 9 FROM 'VOICES IN THE STORM' — LEARNING THE ROPES". The Southern Yankee. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ An Argentine Discourse in English Writing: Falkland War in Editorials of the Buenos Aires Herald (in Spanish)
- ^ Newland, Dan (2009-07-09). "The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log: War Stories 4: Personal Chronicles from a 10-Week War". The Southern Yankee. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Schapiro, Stephanie Rauer de (2003-05-21). Die argentische Presse und der Schmutzige Krieg: Die Rolle der privaten Printmedien Argentiniens während der Militärdiktatur 1976-1983 (in German). diplom.de. ISBN 9783832468378.
- ^ "A Yankee at Large: A Belated Tribute to Robert Cox". A Yankee at Large. 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Charlie Hebdo shooting
- ^ Newland, Dan (2015-01-18). "The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log: WHY I SAY 'JE SUIS CHARLIE'". The Southern Yankee. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ "The Southern Yankee: A Writer's Log". southernyankeewriter.blogspot.com.uy. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Dan Newland at IAPTI
- 1949 births
- Living people
- People from Wapakoneta, Ohio
- United States Army Band musicians
- 20th-century American newspaper editors
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American expatriates in Argentina
- American expatriate journalists
- American translators
- Spanish–English translators
- American male non-fiction writers
- American bloggers
- Ghostwriters
- American male bloggers