He has worked as an editor in various capacities at nine newspapers - including the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose Mercury News - and a magazine, Business 2.0. Gene Gilmore, author of the first four editions of Modern Newspaper Editing, started his journalism teaching career at Syracuse University and spent more than 20 years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has worked on 13 newspapers, including a weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the now defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.