'MY LITTLE TABLOID'

As published in TBN talkingbiznews.com

Semi-retired Bloomberg reporter Vinny Del Giudice has created an online tabloid, the Daily Sketch, covering the police beat, fires and human interest in the Denver metro area.

Del Giudice, 67, developed an interest in 1920s and 1930s style “Get me rewrite” journalism in grade school reading the New York Daily News and New York Post and watching old newspaper movies like “Call Northside 777” starring Jimmy Stewart.

“In graduate school I checked for work at the New York Post, New York Daily News and even to the old trashy Philadelphia Journal tabloid with no luck,” he said. “Then I hit the jackpot covering local news and the police beat in Washington, D.C. for United Press International in 1982.”

Del Giudice was promoted to UPI DC metro editor in 1984 and then moved to the UPI national desk. In 1990, he joined a fledging news agency called Bloomberg and helped build its coverage the U.S. economy, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve from scratch. In 2012, he transferred to Bloomberg’s Denver bureau and retired this year.

“I plan to publish my little tabloid about a year or so,” Del Giudice said. “A following may develop. Right now, we’re averaging 2,500 reader visits a month. It’s not the Daily Mail, but we’ll see. I’m having fun.”