Writes weekly "Word on the Street" column about words in the news and where they come from. Appears every weekend in the WSJ's Review section.

Contributing writer on language for The Atlantic.

Oversees the annual selection of the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. Edits "Among the New Words," a long-running department in American Speech, the quarterly journal of the ADS published by Duke University Press.

Co-host of Slate's language podcast, Spectacular Vernacular.

• Maintained all online content at Vocabulary.com and VisualThesaurus.com, online destinations for word lovers.• Edited online magazine about language and the creative process, updated daily with fresh content.• Wrote Word Routes, a regular column tracing the origins of words and phrases.• Worked with team to develop a range of online features, such as the vocabulary learning features on Vocabulary.com.• Developed marketing and publicity materials on Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus, for promotion to individual subscribers and to schools and other organizations.• Collaborated on educational features that bring Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus into the classroom for language arts and vocabulary instruction.

Wrote the language column "The Word" for the Globe's Ideas section.

Succeeded William Safire as the "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Wrote the column on a bi-weekly basis in the print magazine and answered reader questions online in the off weeks.

• Coordinated activities relating to OUP’s print and online lexical reference material for the American market. Worked closely with staff in editorial, design, marketing, sales, and publicity to manage the publishing process.• Edited dictionaries and thesauruses for print and online use. Titles worked on: Oxford College Dictionary, Pocket Oxford American Dictionary, Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus, Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus.• Worked on the development and implementation of two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus, for use in improving dictionaries and thesauruses.• Conducted publicity relating to the American lexical reference program, including annual selection of Word of the Year. • Wrote marketing and publicity materials, including column for OUPblog and “Zimmer’s Words of the Week.”