Additional work that's not reflected on this website includes web copy writing I did for the very cool, very thought-provoking TED (Technology, Engineering, Design) Conference. I love their website as well. For writing before 2007, check here.
BusinessWeek Chicago is a relatively new city-focused edition of BusinessWeek:
(June 7, 2008) Make that, was a relatively new city-focused edition of BusinessWeek. McGraw-Hill just pulled the plug after eight issues. Rumor is that one editorial person and a salesperson were laid off, and that the current issue, almost completed, will not be printed! I guess the business newspaper/magazine war has a winner... Crain's! Some links on the breaking news from Crain's, Chicago Tribune, and Bob Reed's personal blog. As a former writer for both Crain's and BW Chicago, I think it's a shame they (the Businessweek business people) have cut it off after eight issues. Competition is a good thing when it comes to quality editorial product. That said, I can understand when something isn't working (even if the editorial product is excellent, if I don't mind saying so myself) and the accountants are projecting losses and no increases in advertising in an abysmal market, you have little choice but to kill it. That's how it is in this business, and it's only getting worse! Hopefully the zinio links and the links on the national publication will continue to work for my pieces: |
Biotech Isn't in the DNA, May 2008 (with two sidebars): A long feature (full design version available at the zinio-version of the issue on pp. 22-27 or as a PDF, 5.3MB) on Chicago's attempts and failures to make itself into a biotech hub. What I found so interesting working on this story, was that although Chicago has so much going for it, it hasn't been able to leverage its talents and advantages in this area. In fact, it's actively lost people, companies and momentum over the years and is only now beginning to get all its ducks in a row. But most of the important figures in the industry (and in the investment community) are unaware of Chicago, or write it off. Regardless, the local business people here are working hard to change that. I wish them good luck.
Could That Flu Bug be a Bioweapon, May 2008: Available on p. 32 of the zinio-version of the BWChicago May issue (or as a PDF, 544KB). Short profile of bioethics legal scholar and pulp mystery writer Lori Andrews.
The Hot Action in Financial Tech, March 2008: Chicago has made the transition to 21st century financial powerhouse and startups in the area of "fintech" are launching here to take advantage of the mammoth importance of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Board of Trade and the dizzying array of derivatives, futures and other financial instruments that the world's markets depend on. (Zinio version here, pp. 30-32, or as a PDF, 3.4MB)
Nanotech Stars of Northwestern, December 2007: This will open the Zinio-version, go to page 30 to see the story (or the PDF, 296KB). A profile of three Northwestern nanotech researchers and the university's importance in this growing (and tiny) field.
A global lifestyle magazine from the publishers of Wallpaper:
Road Wage, June 2007 (pdf, 628k)
Nothing But Net: 171 Great Chicago Websites, February 2008: Cover story for February issue, write ups on 171 Chicago websites. I also did two sidebars; one on four "geeks" in politics, food, design, and music who revealed their favorite-area websites, and the other on the best wifi cafes in the city and suburbs.
The Hacktivist, June 2007: Profile of Jeremy Hammond, radical political activist and computer hacker who is serving time for breaking into a conservative website and downloading credit card information on its members.
2007
Several of my "In the hood" columns (a real estate column I did in 2006 and 2007)On Webster Ave., it's a small world, 12/3/2007
Filling up an empty space, 10/29/2007
Ghosts of the Chicago blues, 8/6/2007
Out with the old in Old Town, 6/18/2007
Sweat like a real professional, 3/19/2007
Angry neighbors, antique lamps and a new law, 1/29/2007
*Agenda 2007 special section. Includes article on the phenomenon of bus bunching (when multiple buses run one after the other in a row) and a Q&A with a retired Chicago Transportation Authority bus driver.
[Transportation] Bunching and waiting, 1/1/2007
For pieces before 2007, click here