CHIP SCANLAN
Reporting, Writing & Editing Senior Faculty; Director, National Writers Workshops
Reporting, Coaching, Interviewing, Narrative Writing, Time Management/Productivity
RECENT WORK:
Essays in The New York Times and National Public Radio; “Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century” (author); “The Holly Wreath Man” syndicated to 50 newspapers, now in hardcover (co-author); “America’s Best Newspaper Writing” (co-editor); author of Poynter Online’s “Chip On Your Shoulder” column
| PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY |
Chip produces "Chip on Your Shoulder," a writing advice column for Poynter Online. He spent two decades as an award-winning reporter and feature writer Providence Journal, St. Petersburg Times, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau).
He is the author of "Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century" (Oxford University Press). Co-editor, "America's Best Newspaper Writing" (Bedford/St. Martin's) Edited "Best Newspaper Writing" 1994-2000. Recent publications include: The New York Times, National Public Radio.
Chip's teaching specialties are in reporting, interviewing, coaching skills, productivity, nonfiction narrative, personal essays and deadline storytelling.
With his wife, Katharine Fair, he wrote "The Holly Wreath Man", and "Mystery @ Elf Camp, serial newspaper novels syndicated in 60 newspapers and in 2005 was published in hardcover. In 2006, the couple produced another Christmas serial, "Mystery @ Elf Camp." They have three daughters and live in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Occasionally, Chip gets the remote. |
