I’ve collected 19 of my best columns for the National Sports Journalism Center as an ebook, Sportswriting in the Digital Age. It’s got a wealth of practical advice about writing for the web, blogging, using social media, access and coverage, and how new digital outlets and habits are remaking journalism careers and the practices of athletes, agents, teams and leagues. Check it out in Kindle format from Amazon here, from Barnes & Noble here, or from Smashwords (PDF and other formats) here. Or you can get it through Apple’s online bookstore. Please spread the word!
About Me: I’m a freelance writer, editor and journalism consultant based in Brooklyn, N.Y. I write fiction, essays and non-fiction about technology, sports, online media, music, travel, Star Wars and anything else that catches my interest.
In addition to writing and editing, I help organizations reinvent themselves for a world in which consumers increasingly find news and information through the Web and social media. You can get my take on the challenges and opportunities for digital-age journalism at my blog Reinventing the Newsroom and my advice about sportswriting and new media from Indiana University’s National Sports Journalism Center.
I spent nearly 13 years at The Wall Street Journal Online, where I was a columnist, editor and projects guy. In Web years, 13 years is basically forever — or at least long enough to accumulate more than 1,000 bylines and learn a heck of a lot about how journalism works online. My duties included writing daily and weekly columns (“The Daily Fix” and “Real Time,” respectively), editing writers and coaching them to write effectively for the Web, serving as WSJ.com’s first blogs guru, and representing the editorial department on numerous projects in partnership with Dow Jones business strategists and software developers. After leaving the Online Journal, I consulted with leading news organizations as the Web CMS evangelist for EidosMedia, an innovative maker of cross-media editing-and-publishing software.
I’ve been a baseball blogger at Faith and Fear in Flushing since 2005, when a WSJ.com experiment led to writing for an entirely new set of readers and caused me to reconsider everything I thought I knew about writing and building an audience. The smartest move I ever made as a professional writer? It was to start a blog.
If I can help you with writing, editing, telling stories or thinking through the challenges facing your organization in the digital age, please drop me a line. If you came to check out some of my writing, please have a look around. Either way, thanks for visiting!
