Kevin Riordan

A native of western Massachusetts, Kevin Riordan received a degree in journalism from Syracuse University. His first newspaper job was at the Cherry Hill News, a Gannett-owned weekly. At the Courier Post, he was the one-man bureau in Camden for eight years and also held a number of other high-profile jobs. He left the paper in 2007 to become vice president for communications for Volunteers of America/Delaware County.

Email Kevin at kriordan@phillynews.com

Ken Hartman, a Cherry Hill educator and Army veteran, organized the ceremony.

Ceremony honors N.J. grads headed to the military

By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

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Amid the pomp and circumstance of graduation season, retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michele S. Jones addresses a banquet audience of 300.

Patti Sheehy is so excited about getting her book published that she had car magnets made up to advertise it as she drives around in Haddon Heights.

From a local author, cinematic adventure

By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

05/21/2013

Patti Sheehy remembers thinking, this story has everything: Bravery, romance, suspense, and an evocative historical backdrop. Plus, it was true.

There's a new show in town 05/19/2013: The films are gone from the old movie house, but there's a lot of creativity happening.

By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: The former Collingswood Theatre, a 1,200-seat movie house renovated decades ago for other commercial uses, reopened in January as the Factory Workers ("the Factory" for short).
A toast to Toastmasters in the age of tweets 05/16/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Eventually the most ardent tweeter, texter, and instant messenger must face, not Facebook, the truth. "People have to talk to other people," says Matthew Goldberg, the Voorhees chapter president of Toastmasters International, which has been enhancing oral communication skills for 89 years.
One N.J. school district's back-to-basics success story 05/14/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Tough little Union City's public school test scores and graduation rates rival those of comfortable suburbs. But in the late 1980s, the only schools with which Union City could be said to "compete" were in troubled Camden.
'Never look at the audience' 05/12/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: In The Drowsy Chaperone, a Broadway extravaganza comes to life in a lonely fan's imagination.
South Jersey reaches out to fire victims 05/09/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: Fenced-off and forlorn, the ruins of 101 White Horse Pike in Haddon Heights attest to fire's frightening force.
Fixing the wounds in Camden's urban war zone 05/07/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

After a young woman in her neighborhood committed suicide in April, Pamela Robb vowed to attend the Camden Trauma Summit.
Fragile on the ground, tall in the saddle 04/28/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: In the saddle, Tina Panna is on top of the world. "I feel like a normal person," says the Mullica Hill resident, 41, who rides despite fragile bones, ravaged joints, and chronic pain.
Hospital volunteer, 88: "I'm a doer . . . I just like to be busy." 04/25/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: Two weeks after Dick Subber retired from the Clementon post office in 1986, he got to work.
In Philadelphia, a flourishing poetry scene 04/23/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: Steve Burns is a part-time waiter. He does carpentry, too. But his real job is poetry.
Evangelists carry message to A.C. sex convention 04/21/2013: By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist

Kevin Riordan: Before walking onto the floor at eXXXotica, which bills itself as "the largest event in the USA dedicated to love and sex," Mandy Ingram said a prayer.