Berl Schwartz (Publisher)

Berl Schwartz, the publisher of City Pulse, started as a copy boy at The Blade, his hometown paper. Schwartz, 54, was general manager and editorial adviser of The State News, the student newspaper at MSU, from 1994 until last year. He was Washington bureau chief of United Press International, executive editor of the York (Pa.) Daily Record, managing editor of The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel and a Washington correspondent for The Louisville (Ky.) Times and Scripps Howard News Service. He was also a reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin. Schwartz was a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Oklahoma. He is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Journalism at MSU. He earned a degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. Schwartz has twin daughters, Abagail and Rebecca, who are juniors in college. He and his partner, Paul Shore, live in downtown Lansing.