Local Author – Jack Shaum

After retiring from a nearly thirty-year career as a news anchor and reporter for news-talk radio station WBAL in Baltimore in 2002, Jack Shaum began writing for the Bay Times and Record Observer newspapers in Queen Annes County. Shaum was the editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America, and he is the co-author of Majesty at Sea. Shaum has received professional awards from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others.