After arriving in Baltimore from New England, Rodricks started writing a column for the former afternoon paper, The Evening Sun in 1979.
It is one of the longest-running newspaper columns in the U.S. Rodricks' "Dear Drug Dealers" series[2] in The Sun, a public call for an end to criminal violence in Baltimore, won the 2006 "Excellence in Urban Journalism Award" from the Freedom Forum and the Enterprise Foundation (established by Gannett Newspapers) and the 2005 "Public Service Award" from the Chesapeake Associated Press.
His Midday show ran on WYPR-FM from 2008 until 2015, when Rodricks created the Roughly Speaking podcast for the Baltimore Sun.
His second book, "Father's Day Creek: Fly Fishing, Fatherhood and The Last Best Place on Earth," was published by Apprentice House in 2019.
[3] In an interview with WYPR radio host Tom Hall, Rodricks said that he wasn't ready to retire from The Sun, but was driven to leave the paper because of changes made under its new owners, David D. Smith and conservative columnist Armstrong Williams.