2,273 Published Online News Articles, One Writer... a Record?

If any reporters have a higher online story count, I would like to know.

Tim was keynote speaker at FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) 2012, in Baltimore. He talked about his reports on war crimes against Tamils at the end of Sri Lanka's civil war.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - With 2,273 published online news articles, I think I may have the highest number of news reports by a single reporter in the U.S. or otherwise. I will be interested to know if anyone disagrees. For those writers out there who would like to catch up, according to my calculations, you could do so if you wrote an article every day for 6.2 years.

Tim in Kuwait, can you say 130 degrees?

The number, 2,273, is based upon the current archives of Salem-News.com. All are listed chronologically here, Salem-News.com Articles written by Tim King. The referenced articles are available at no cost in perpetuity for readers.

The first article, The State of Media in Oregon`s Capital City, was published Feb. 04, 2006. The most recent was published two days ago, titled, Why Does SF Gay Pride Board Pres. Lisa Williams Hate Gay Whisetleblower Manning?

This is the 20th official year of the Internet.

I remember the first time I entered an Internet cafe with my wife, and we both found ourselves staring at the computer, with not the first clue... we didn't know what a browser was! My how things have changed.

Tim on top of an Afghan mountain

As I counted the articles, so many thoughts came rushing back.

Titles and pictures flashed by. Cities, countries, events, deaths of so many people, Benazir Bhutto, two Salem-News.com writers, Henry Ruark and Vittorio Arrigoni, Scott Lundell who was killed in Afghanistan when I was covering that war, Hussein, Gaddafi, on and on. So many people in nine years.

It wasn't all death of course, as much as that topic may tend to dominate my articles. There were so many individual moments and I remember each story surprisingly well.

I saw articles filed from Oregon, California, Canada, Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I thought about the experiences, the excitement, the fears, the victories and the great losses.

Tim in Baghdad. Photo by Justin King

I considered the other reporters I've worked with, and the little children I have photographed as they survive in war torn lands.

So what does it mean if I do have the highest number of published articles? Well, probably not much I suppose, but on a personal level it means something, and perhaps some day this could be a matter for the Guinness Book of World Records, I write with a half smile.

These 2,273 articles were filed from all manner of places, often generated in long overnight writing sessions. Some are lengthy and some are brief, a couple of the entries aren't really my articles, but I wrote an intro, etc.

There are thousands of articles that I have written and published simply for Salem-News.com without a writer credit, since we went online in May 2004. I have also written and continue to write for other agencies and these are not accounted for in the above number.

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With almost 25 years of experience on the west coast and worldwide as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor, Tim King is Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. His background includes covering the war in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, and reporting from the Iraq war in 2008. Tim is a former U.S. Marine who follows stories of Marines and Marine Veterans; he's covered British Royal Marines and in Iraq, Tim embedded with the same unit he served with in the 1980's.

Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing from traditional mainstream news agencies like The Associated Press and Electronic Media Association; he also holds awards from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists, the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs; and was presented with a 'Good Neighbor Award' for his reporting, by the The Red Cross.

Tim King reporting from the war in Iraq

Tim's years as a Human Rights reporter have taken on many dimensions; he has rallied for a long list of cultures and populations and continues to every day, with a strong and direct concentration on the 2009 Genocide of Tamil Hindus and Christians in Sri Lanka. As a result of his long list of reports exposing war crimes against Tamil people, Tim was invited to be the keynote speaker at the FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) Conference in Baltimore, in July 2012. This is the largest annual gathering of North American Tamils; Tim addressed more than 3000 people and was presented with a traditional Sri Lanka ‘blessed garland’ and a shawl as per the tradition and custom of Tamil Nadu

In a personal capacity, Tim has written 2,026 articles as of March 2012 for Salem-News.com since the new format designed by Matt Lintz was launched in December, 2005. Serving readers with news from all over the globe, Tim's life is literally encircled by the endless news flow published by Salem-News.com, where more than 100 writers contribute stories from 23+ countries and regions.

Tim specializes in writing about political and military developments worldwide; and maintains that the label 'terrorist' is ill placed in many cases; specifically with the LTTE Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, where it was used as an excuse to slaughter people by the tens of thousands; and in Gaza, where a trapped population lives at the mercy of Israel's destructive military war crime grinder. At the center of all of this, Tim pays extremely close attention to the safety and welfare of journalists worldwide.