- NAME
- Jenny Kincaid Boone
- AGE
- 28
- POSITION
- Business reporter, covering retail and real estate
- BEEN WITH THE ROANOKE TIMES
- Since October 2002
- GREW UP IN
- Augusta County, Va.
- BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW
- I taught English classes in a rural part of China for several months after college.
- WHEN I'M NOT WORKING
- Running local 5K and 10k races, biking, traveling to big cities to shop and explore, hanging out at local coffee shops (I am addicted to chai latte!); organizing events for a young adults group at my church
- CELEBRITY MOMENT
- I called Whitey Ford, former New York Yankees star, for a story about the death of Joe DiMaggio when I interned in the Sports department at USA Today. But he was upset with the press for bothering him, and after a few questions, he hung up the phone on me!
- FAVORITE MAGAZINE
- Runner's World
- FAVORITE BIG-CITY SIGHTS
- The Louvre in Paris; the Washington, D.C. capitol building; the John Hancock Center in Chicago (I ran a race up the stairs of the Tower two years in a row).