Chris Putnam has recently joined Yorkton This Week as a reporter.
Born in Watson, Putnam attended the University of Saskatchewan taking four years of English, which after graduation turned into a reporter position at the Tisdale Recorder.
Putnam said he became a journalist because that was "the opportunity that presented itself." He spent the past two years in Tisdale, before accepting the position in Yorkton.
"It was a different opportunity, the time to move, a bigger paper, a faster pace," he said as to why he chose to take the YTW position. "You've got to keep trying new things."
While the weekly routine of the newspaper has been Putnam's career focus, he said he also found time to be a contributor to damninteresting.com.
"It's kind of a collection of writers from around the world," he said, adding those writer contributed interesting stories on a range of topics.
"They're less well-known stories that are really quite fascinating."
The website proved popular with up to half a million hits a month, which led the collective to publish a book of the best stories.
The book entitled; Alien Hand Syndrome: And Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories contains five pieces by Putnam, who also helped edited other works.
Putnam said his favourite story in the book is Irrational Optimism, which was the first story he did for the website.
The story focuses on how people we generally see as having mental disorders "often being more rational than normal people in certain ways," he said.
The book is available through Amazon.com
At YTW Putnam will cover health, education, federal politics and police as his main beats.
