At Better Told, I deploy skills developed over 25 years in journalism to help companies and organizations discern and execute a compelling brand narrative. Real storytelling, the kind AI will (hopefully) never be able to do, coheres disparate teams, gives customers and clients a way to *belong* to an organization or brand, so that loyalty becomes the organic product of our identities, as important as anything else we believe.

Bylines: TIME, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, National Journal, Vocativ, Vice, Washington Post, Billboard, New York Daily News, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report. Datelines: Istanbul, Cyprus, Pnomh Penh, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh, Malaysia. Let's go somewheres!

I cover national affairs for the magazine, including culture, politics, business and cannabis.

I covered national affairs for the magazine, including culture, politics, business and marijuana.

I write about Europe for Newsweek, based in Spain.

An invaluable immersion into the world of digital journalism. Daily I learned new things about how to identify stories that stand out from the crush of other options, especially on topics that are already trending. My bailiwicks: how emerging technology is changing our lives, alternative culture (weed + hackers) and breaking news of all stripes.

For most of this stringer set, I mined breaking news for possible ways to flush out a good backstory. As it happened, many involved weird crime. I have some scattered expertise about the difference between serial killers and mass murderers, for example.

I taught Reporting 1 at the UO during Spring Term 2012.

Say what you will about newspapers, but this was the last place I worked willing to set aside months at a time for investigative journalism. My swan song here was a SABEW Award­winning four­part series on how the State of Oregon blew $160­plus million on a highway project to straighten 5 and a half miles of highway in the middle of the Coast Range.

Someday I’ll tell you the great origin story of how I started stringing for Newsweek, where I learned everything I know now about writing for a national audience and in magazine style. Google “Bambi vs. the Bureaucrats” for what is still probably my favorite story ever.

My first full­time gig and a half­dozen beats covered in those first few years: social issues, health, education, general assignment. Great news vortex in the Inland Northwest.