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The life
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Warren Swil
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I grew up in a beautiful city at the southern tip of Africa, Cape Town.
The main significance of this is it that makes me a rare,
red-headed African-American.
See what a difference 30 years can make. Check
out my visit to
Cape
Town in
January 2004
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These are my parents, Barney (1914-1996) and Molly (1920-1993). This photo was taken in 1984
when they visited me in San Diego, where I'd lived since 1975.
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After graduating from the
University of Cape Town with
a degree in sociology, and working for two years as a cub reporter, I emigrated to the U.S. and went to college at San Diego State University.
I obtained a second bachelors degree, this time in journalism, in 1977 with the assistance of a small scholarship I won from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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This family portrait was taken on my barmitzvah, May 1965. From the left, Ann, Barney, Tony, Rodney, Molly and Warren.
To see what we looked like 30 years later, go to the photo taken in Sydney in 1995. |
At the ripe old age of 47, I went back to school
to get my masters degree. I graduated with an MA with honors from
CSULA in 2001.
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After four years as a reporter for the
Oceanside (CA) Blade-Tribune (now the Blade-Citizen), I opened The Swil Agency and
became a media consultant. With the later addition of a partner the business was
incorporated as Nexus Media, Inc.
The agency's corporate clients included the San Diego Hilton Hotel, Grubb &
Ellis Commercial Brokerage and the Sheraton
Harbor Island Hotel.
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Our political clients included the 1982 Pete Wilson for U.S. Senate campaign committee, the 1981 and 1983 Susan Golding for City Council committees and the 1983 Roger Hedgecock for Mayor committee.
In 1985 I moved to Los Angeles, and in 1989
returned to the world of journalism and daily
newspapering as a news editor at the Los Angeles
Daily News.
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The rest, of course, is history!
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