Please join us for lunch!

For our meeting Monday, September 9th 2024, we welcome 
John Monk, The State Newspaper – Update on Murdaugh Trial. 

 

John Monk Headshot

John Monk grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland, and attended Davidson College and graduated from Amherst College. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he came to South Carolina, began his career in Myrtle Beach and then went to The Charlotte Observer, where he was police reporter, state reporter, South Carolina reporter, investigative reporter and Washington correspondent. He joined The State in 1996. Stories he has covered include Pee Wee Gaskins, the Dylann Roof Charleston church massacre, the SCANA nuclear scandal, corruption in the SC Legislature and the Murdaugh murder saga.