John Dorschner

John Dorschner has been a Miami journalist for half a century. For more than 40 years, he was a staff writer with the Miami Herald, much of that time spent on the Sunday magazine, Tropic. For his last decade at the newspaper, he covered mostly healthcare economics. Since retiring in 2013, he has researching Miami in 1980 -- the year of the McDuffie riots and the Mariel boatlift.

He is co-author, with Roberto Fabricio, of The Winds of December, a history of Cuba in late 1958 and early 1959 -- the downfall of Batista and the coming to power of Castro. His magazine work has been anthologized in several college textbooks, including “Telling Stories Taking Risks” and “Textures: Strategies for Reading.” His magazine story on the problems with the city of Miami police department, “The Dark Side of the Force,” was re-published in Critical Issues in Policing: Contemporary Readings.

In 2001, he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow, teaching journalism and studying the post-Communist economy in Timisoara, Romania..