ESCANABA – Bob McGinn’s self-described semi-retirement as a reporter covering the Green Bay Packers lasted three months.

Thursday McGinn, an Escanaba native, unveiled a new website devoted to covering the Packers, the National Football League and the annual draft of college prospects. The subscription-based site will operate from Sept. 1 to about May 1.

For subscription plans and other details, contact the website at bobmcginnfootball.com.

McGinn has covered the Packers since 1979, with the Green Bay Press-Gazette (1979-91), The Milwaukee Journal (1991-95) and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1995-2017). He joined the writer’s wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 when he received the Dick McCann Award for his outstanding coverage of the Packers and the NFL.

A 2008 inductee in the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame, McGinn was a three-sport athlete at Escanaba Holy Name High School and graduated in 1970. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he broke into sports writing with The Michigan Daily.

Known for his thorough, incisive and hard-hitting pro football coverage, McGinn is a six-time selection as sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin and has received the Milwaukee Press Club major lifetime journalistic achievement award. He covered every Green Bay Packer game from 1984-2016 and reported on 32 of the past 34 Super Bowls.

McGinn is author of “The Ultimate Super Bowl Book.” The first edition was published in 2009 and the second edition in 2012.

He has teamed with his co-owner son, Charlie, to join the growing ranks of internet sports writing. His son lives in Milwaukee and is director of strategic sales for Comdata. Charlie McGinn, a highly successful fantasy football player, is handling the business, legal and technical sides of the endeavor.

The site will have something new most every day and will include columns, game analytics, grading the Packers, scouting reports and game day columns.

While McGinn will handle the brunt of the writing, he has two other writers on his staff, award-winning Packer reporter Rob Reischel and author of eight Packers-related books, and former beat writer/talk show host Mark Eckel.

Dennis Grall, retired sports editor of the Daily Press in Escanaba, is the staff photographer for the new venture. The 2002 UPSHF inductee is the longest tenured officer in the 45-year history of the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, serving as executive secretary since 1992.

Bob McGinn worked for Grall and the Daily Press as a summer intern in 1973 and worked for The Delta Reporter in Gladstone in 1975.