Journalism

I started my career in business and financial reporting at The Cincinnati Business Courier. I’m a former financial reporter for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and a national correspondent for Advertising Age.

Selected Clips:

Harper’s Magazine

The Eviction Experts: Can a City Stop an Eviction Crisis?

The New York Times Magazine

The High Cost of Bad Credit: Desperate to improve their ratings, Americans now spend billions on “credit repair” — but the industry often can’t deliver on its promises.

“Here or Nowhere: How extended stay hotels and motels became the last housing option for thousands of low-income Americans.”

The Long Read, The Guardian

‘If one of us gets sick, we all get sick:’ the food workers on the coronavirus front line

Bloomberg Businessweek

Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever

Cities Bid for Tesla Truck Plant Despite Shrinking Coffers

When Big Tech Goes Green, Taxpayers Help Food the Bill

Google and other Silicon Valley giants have tremendous leverage over states, cities, and utilities.

When Midwest Startups Sell, Their Hometown Schools Often Lose

Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You might Be.

Dollar General Hits a Gold Mind in Rural America

Facebook Won’t Hire You for Its Data Center

What Would Jesus Disrupt?

Amazon is Getting a Good Deal in Ohio. Maybe Too Good.

This Handheld Device Detects Opioids. It’s Not Always Right.

Why You Need the Internet to Drill in the U.S.

Columbia Journalism Review

Stop using ‘officer-involved shooting’

A battered FOIA collides with the $2 trillion bailout

Rethinking Foreign Reporting at the Associated Press

FOIA is ‘one of the last tools of clarity’ on the family separation crisis

Big Tech’s Bid to Control FOIA

How an Arcane New Accounting Rule is Helping Reporters Follow the Money

Outside Magazine

The Private Compay Selling Off America’s Public Lands

Amazon’s War on Gear

NewYorker.com

Quail, the Quieter Backyard-Yard Egg Option

The Compassion Experience

Should the Polar Bear Still Sell Coca-Cola?

Harper’s Magazine

A Camera on Every Cop: Taser International Cashes in on Police Body Cameras

Interview with KCRW on Taser

Columbus Monthly

The Fragile Right of Free Speech

Profile of Composer Brian Harnetty

The Limits of Body Cameras

The Restless Imagination of Amit Majmudar

Last Pet Store Standing

The Baffler

Imperial Style

Slate

The New Digital State

The New Republic

Mothers in Advertising

CBSNews.com

How P&G Bought the Diaper Revolution

The Atlantic Magazine

The Data-Driven Parent

Advertising Age

Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 million

Hidden Persuasion or Junk Science?

The Catch-22 of Buying Black Media

When a Brand Buster Becomes a Brand

Columbus Monthly

Nada’s World

Ice Man