When you retain my services, you are tapping into more than 4 decades of experience in media and communications...

working in the over-lapping worlds of journalism, advocacy non-profits, and the pressure cooker of national electoral politics. In addition to these cross-cutting perspectives, I have an insatiable native curiosity, and bring a very-wide ranging body of general knowledge about many things historical, political, and scientific to bear.

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Most recently, I have been gaining another perspective on the world in Canada, where my wife and I have moved to Petpeswick Inlet in Musquodoboit Harbour, about 30 miles east of Halifax, where I am the Editor of the Eastern Shore Cooperator.  I have also been learning a good deal about provincial and federal politics and the very different operations of the parliamentary system, with its minority governments, snap elections and greatly shortened campaign cycles. And I have researched the issues facing many rural communities, including the issues of climate change impact, economic challenges in a post-extractive industry world, rural fishing and agriculture, and rural policies on land ownership and stewardship.

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See below for a summary of my experiences as a writer, editor, and researcher, with links to some of the organizations involved.

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EDITING

Newspapers and Magazines

• Managing Editor, Fire Island News, Ocean Beach, NY

• Make-up Editor, The Village Voice, New York, NY

• Managing editor, start-up, The New Haven Advocate, New Haven, CT

• Managing editor, The Real Paper, Boston, MA

• Faculty Member, School for Authentic Journalism, 2010-2011

• Editor, Eastern Shore Cooperator, 2014-

 

BOOKS

Karen K. Bradley, Rudolf Laban ((Routledge Performance Practitioners), Routledge, 2008
Global Green USA, Russian Nuclear National Dialogue: Energy, Society, and Security, Global Green USA, 2007
Jesselyn Radack, The Canary in the Coal Mine, 2007

 

RESEARCH

Issues Director, John Kerry for Senate, 1984
Research Director, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, chairs Senator George Mitchell, Senator John Kerry, Senator John Breaux (1985-1990)

 

WRITING

Co-author, Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Myths, and Mindset,
Sierra Club Books, 1982; Penguin paperback 1983
Winner, 1982 National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language
Articles in The Fire Island News, The New Haven Advocate, The Real Paper, Down East Magazine, World Watch Magazine, Post Carbon Institute
Research Reports on Democratic and Republican Senate incumbents and candidates
Press releases, brochures, fund-raising direct mail letters, blog posts

 

PIONEER IN ONLINE POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Research Director, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1986, internal daily email report on floor votes and speeches by 1986 Republican incumbents.
New Media Director, Democratic National Committee, 1993-1996, chairs David Wilhelm, Don Fowler
—1993, Democratic Forum, hosted on Compuserve
—1995, first U.S. national political party website
Website Manager, Democratic National Convention, 1996, first Democratic Convention website, featuring live gavel-to-gavel podium coverage and live chats with Cabinet Secretaries and Senators
Blogmaster John Kerry for President; First Democratic general election presidential campaign blog.

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