Scott Greene, '93, grew up just outside Boston wanting to be a newspaper reporter. He did it in high school and came to Syracuse wanting to pursue that career. But WJPZ quickly drew him in, and he says the only columns he wrote for the Daily Orange ended up being Wrestlemania previews.
Scott came to the station as the classes of 90 and 91 were taking the reigns. His group quickly got their footing, and passed the torch to '94 and '95. And yes, Scott names names from all of these groups.
While a student, Scott worked at KIX FM, before it became B104.7. Not interested in country, he went over to 95X to become the promotions director right around graduation.
After a few years there, Scott headed home to Boston, where he worked in marketing, with partners like Rolling Stone magazine and more. Another reinvention, he got his masters' degree and began teaching middle school. He continued in that field after following his wife home to western Massachusetts. After he tired of disciplining middle school students (can you blame him?) he went back to his first love -newspaper. He's now the sales manager of Reminder Publishing, which puts out several local, weekly newspapers in the area. We spend some time talking about the newspaper business, and where he sees it thriving at the local level through strategic partnerships.
Scott leaves us with two classic Z89 stories. One involves Bruce Springsteen tickets - and the other involves all the commercial overnight jocks in town playing the same record at the same time. He explains, and the story ends at a very familiar place.
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