He hired me for my first job out of college for the Revere Journal. Procopio said it was Dick Powers who hired him as a reporter fresh out of Salem State University where he had graduated summa cum laude. or a resident or homeowner, you paid attention to what Dick was saying, and that’s an admirable trait for a newspaper man,” lauded Procopio. “If you were a politician, a business owner, a candidate for office, a city employee. People would wait every Wednesday to see what Dick said in that week’s Journal.” So that strong local newspaper was part of the foundation of a community and even more so, a strong editor of such a newspaper was an important fixture and influencer in that community. He ran the Journal in an era before the internet, before online forums, before sources of news were so diluted and decentralized. Powers as editor of the Revere Journal, said of his former professional colleague and mentor, “Dick was an old-school newsman in all the best senses of that word.
Powers often visited his friend Peter Palladino at City Hall Pharmacy (later City Hall Variety) store where he would hold court with other prominent Revere residents and discuss the issues affecting the city.ĭavid Procopio, who succeeded Mr. During his reign as editor of The Journal, Mr.
