Michael Dresser

Bio

Michael Dresser, a member of The Sun newsroom staff since 1976, has served in a wide variety of editing and reporting positions.

Before turning to reporting in 1990, he worked on the copy desk and served as assistant business editor. As a reporter on the business desk, Dresser covered the retail industry through the recession of the early 1990s, then the telecommunications industry during the early years of the World Wide Web.

He transferred to the metro desk in 1996 and spent eight years working out of the bureau in Annapolis, winning awards for his coverage of campaign finance scandals and mismanagement and corruption is the state pension system.

In 2004, Dresser returned to Baltimore to cover transportation issues. In 2006, he launched the "Getting There" column and began working as a weekend editor who is responsible for the Sunday metro section. From 1982 through 2004, he wrote a wine column for The Sun.

He lives in Ellicott City with his wife, Cindy, and a diamondback terrapin named Petey. Dresser has a son, Owen, a student at Penn State.