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Henry R. Luce, the founder of Time magazine, once said, “I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”
As a young reporter, Dan Araujo was immersed in the polarity of that heartbeat, finding that the great and the grim of human possibility were both resonating through his coverage zone.
Raised in San Lorenzo, he got an early taste for the muckraking grind after he took a staff position at the Heyward Daily News. Araujo’s main beats were police and local politics. An avid poetry lover, he was also typing up copy on what art and culture brought to the community. The yin and yang of those experiences would later inform Araujo’s various pursuits when he moved to the Sierra foothills.