Professional/Personal Overview
A versatile, artful and award-winning journalist, I've reported from four continents for national magazines. Specialties include human interest, science, the environment, entertainment, religion and crime. I'm also a veteran editor, known for transforming muddled manuscripts into models of vivid and well-structured prose.
Work Info
Expertise
Editor
10 Years
Reporter
28 Years
Writer
28 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
28 Years
Environment & Nature
14 Years
Science
18 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
26 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
Reader's Digest (11+), Ladies' Home Journal (11+), Discover (6-10), USA Weekend (3-5), Prevention (3-5), LA Weekly (1-2), More (1-2), Mother Jones (1-2), Parade (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Aptel Research (3-5)
Other Work History
FREELANCE WRITER
Computer Skills
Word, Excel, Quark, InCopy, Lotus Notes
Foreign Language Skills
Conversational Spanish and French
References
Available on request
Awards
Folio Eddie Award
Associations
ASJA
Other
BOOKS
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near Los Angeles, CA. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
Profiles
(Reader's Digest , 3/1/2008)
Profile of Sean D. Tucker, the Michael Jordan of aerobatics.
(Reader's Digest , 7/1/2007)
Profile of a North Carolina homemaker -- and former teenage runaway -- who makes it her life's mission to track down missing people. She often succeeds where the cops fail.
(More , 5/1/2007)
Profile of Barbara Mulvaney, an American lawyer who bounced back from a devastating midlife crisis to become a prosecutor for the Rwanda war crimes tribunal. Reported from Africa.
Drama/Adventure
(Reader's Digest , 10/1/2009)
When a pilot dies at the controls of a private plane, a passenger takes over.
(Reader's Digest , 6/1/2008)
Trapped in their pickup truck by a blizzard, a married couple survive for 12 days in Utah's remote wilderness.
Environment
(Mother Jones , 5/1/2006)
In Alaska's Bristol Bay region, the continent's biggest gold mine could put the world's largest salmon fishery out of business. An investigation.
(Los Angeles Times Magazine , 8/1/2004)
In a peaceful California mountain town, a battle over bottling spring water grows violent. Cover story.
Crime
(Reader's Digest , 2/1/2007)
A young woman is killed on a moonlit beach, and her husband is wounded in the attack. Or was he the gunman?
Entertainment
(Reader's Digest , 5/1/2007)
An appreciation of Eastwood, tracing his evolution from TV cowboy to serious director -- with comments from Gene Hackman, Ryan Phillippe, Emmy Rossum and others.
(Reader's Digest , 6/1/2005)
As Steven Spielberg's Martian invasion film makes clear, our monsters tell us a lot about ourselves.
(Reader's Digest , 6/1/2005)
Newscaster Brian Williams talks about the person who influenced him most -- Tom Brokaw. I wrote the story in Williams's "voice," based on a one-hour phone interview.
(Reader's Digest , 1/1/2005)
Behind the scenes with director Joel Schumacher and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber during the making of "The Phantom of the Opera."
Books
(Salon , 1/26/2005)
Q&A with M.G. Lord, author of the memoir "Astro-Turf" -- with juicy revelations about the secret history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Science/Technology
(Discover , 9/1/2005)
Archaeologists feud bitterly over how civilization in the Americas got its start 5,000 years ago. Reported from Peru.
Trends
(Time , 12/20/1999)
Affluent suburbanites take up an unlikely new sport: competitive sheep herding.
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