Hopkins joins Philly Inquirer as a features reporter

Earl Hopkins, a culture reporter at the Austin American-Statesman has left to join The Philadelphia Inquirer as a features reporter covering arts, entertainment and culture.

Hopkins served as a general assignment reporter and arts and culture reporter at The Columbus Dispatch. He was a freelance writer at the Columbus Monthly, Columbus CEO and Columbus Alive, subsidiary publications under the Dispatch Media Group umbrella.

He was also an education and family issues reporter at the Evansville Courier & Press.

Hopkins has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University.

You can congratulate Hopkins via Twitter.