Contributors
Neil Offen, one of the editors of this site, has been a humor columnist for four decades and on two continents. A longtime journalist, he’s also been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, a radio newsman, written a nationally syndicated funny comic strip and been published in a variety of formats, including pen, crayon, chalk and, once, under duress, his wife’s eyebrow pencil. The author or co-author of more than a dozen books, he is, as well, the man behind several critically acclaimed supermarket shopping lists. His most recent book is Building a Better Boomer, published this year. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, but likes to imagine he’s still in the south of France, where the wine is cheaper.
Mitchell Stephens - Posts
Mitchell Stephens, one of the editors of this site, is a professor emeritus of Journalism at New York University, and is the author or co-author of nine books, including the rise of the image the fall of the word, A History of News, Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, and The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism. He lives in New York and spends a lot of time traveling and fiddling with video.
Jerry Lanson
Jerry Lanson - Posts
Jerry Lanson is a professor emeritus in journalism from Emerson College in Boston. He continues to work part-time as a writing consultant for the Harvard Kennedy School, where he works with master's candidates from across the world. Lanson wrote or co-wrote four books on journalistic writing and reporting. He's taught at eight colleges and universities, worked as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News, wrote columns for the Syracuse Post Standard ("Muddling Through Midlife") and the Online Journalism Review, and contributes to op-ed pages. His interests include dogs, all things French, singing, travel and imagined terminal illnesses, none of which have buried him yet.
Carol Offen
Carol Offen - Posts
Carol Offen is a writer/editor/blogger and an organ donation advocate (she donated a kidney to her son in 2006). By turns, she has been an author (The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation), a magazine editor, a book editor, a research editor, and a freelance writer. She's interviewed country music stars, French actresses, and Michelin-star restaurant chefs.