About Me

I’m a freelance writer who specializes in tech and entertainment, though I also write about lifestyle and other topics. In addition to journalism, I work with businesses to write  web copy, corporate profiles, training materials and other content. I have a solid journalism/writing background with new media skills. I’ve blogged, Twittered, incorporated video I shot into stories and am trained in SEO.

I started my journalism career the old-fashioned way: I worked as a cops reporter at the Tracy Press in Northern California, covering everything from marijuana busts to a murder trial. It was a lot of fun. David Letterman even featured one of my stories about a pot smoking Subway sandwich maker running for city council in a Small Town News segment (which YouTube doesn’t seem to have!) After a year in Tracy, I moved to Los Angeles and into business journalism as a reporter for the Los Angeles Business Journal‘s San Fernando Valley edition.

All roads in L.A. eventually lead to entertainment. I’ve spent the last decade covering the business of Hollywood, documenting DVD’s rise and fall, the emergence of Blu-ray, the collision of the music and movie business with the Internet, and interviewing musicians and filmmakers about it all. My work has appeared in Billboard, Daily Variety, Premiere, The Hollywood Reporter and Video Business magazine, a Daily Variety sister publication where I also worked as a staff writer before becoming a full-time freelancer. I’ve been quoted by Entertainment Weekly and The New York Post. I also created and contributed to The Down Low blog, which was hosted on Variety.com and VideoBusiness.com (now shut down).

I continue to write about technology and entertainment, as well as travel and other non-business topics. I also work with companies and small businesses, writing profiles, web content and other materials.