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Norm Clarke is an American gossip columnist in Las Vegas, Nevada. He wrote the column "Vegas Confidential" for the Las Vegas Review-Journal from 1999 to 2016. He publishes the website Norm Clarke's Vegas Diary.
Clarke began in the newspaper business by covering sports for the Montana newspaper Terry Tribune. He moved on to newspaper jobs in Miles City, Helena and Billings, Montana. In 1973 he went to work for the Associated Press in Cincinnati, Ohio. While there, he covered the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in neighboring Southgate, Kentucky, where 165 people perished. His work in covering the collapse of a 1978 nuclear power plant cooling tower in West Virginia, in which 66 construction workers died, earned Clarke and his colleagues a Pulitzer Prize nomination.[ citation needed ] He later transferred to San Diego, California and then Los Angeles, where he coordinated AP's coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Clarke next went to the Denver Rocky Mountain News to work as a sports writer, eventually covering the Major League Baseball team the Colorado Rockies . In 1996, he switched to writing a "man about town" column that would become the prototype for his Las Vegas column. In 1999, Clarke joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal as the man-about-town columnist.
Clarke has written four books:
He publishes the website Norm Clarke's Vegas Diary, which covers Las Vegas news, celebrity sightings, history, and human-interest stories. [1]
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