Episode 15: Jeremy Markovich
When Jeremy Markovich visited the podcast, he was a writer and columnist for Charlotte magazine. He also contributed to SB Nation Longform and Our State magazine, and an Emmy-award winning producer at WCNC-TV. His first story about a blind man who hiked the Appalachian Trail won several awards, including the National City and Regional Magazine Award for Personality Profile. Markovich is now a senior editor/writer at Our State. Click here to see many of his newer stories for that magazine. On this episode, we talk with him about two stories he wrote for SB Nation Longform. The first — "Elegy of a Race Car Driver" — is about famed NASCAR racer Dick Trickle, who committed suicide earlier this May. That story was recently named a Best of 2013: Sports by Longform. The second — "Over the Edge" — is about BASE jumping, particularly those who gather at the New River Gorge bridge in West Virginia on the third Saturday in October every year to jump.