About Me
My first exposure to journalism was as a teenage reporter for the Omaha-based Lance, Westside High School's student-run newspaper under the phenomenal instructor Rod Howe. I'm not sure I understood the fundamentals of reporting until later. But I was hooked on the craft.
In college, I served as News Editor of the Columbia College Chronicle under Jim Sulski while writing for Streetwise, a paper focused on homelessness, and later the Chicago Sun-Times as a sports reporter responsible for the "agate," or condensed type used to present scores.
But New York eventually called, and during my graduate studies (for journalism! At NYU!) I began working at The Brooklyn Paper, an archipelago of small community newspapers spearheaded by Ed and Celia Weintrob. Through hundreds of assignments, my time at the paper provided invaluable access to Brooklyn's political and business leaders and set me up for the first of two stints at the New York Daily News.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg had just introduced an ambitious zoning plan for the city allowing more density in neighborhoods across the five boroughs, and as developers clamored to build citywide, including a basketball arena and other headline projects, I gradually became the New York tabloid's go-to for urban development and real estate news.
The experience opened doors to the city's vibrant roster of real estate trade publications, including The Commercial Observer, where, after several years, I rose to become the newspapers Editor-in-Chief. I followed that position into Editor-in-Chief roles at The Modern Sale, a branded content outlet focused on sales technology like CRM software, and Inman, where I led a team of 10 reporters for the next eight years.
Today, I'm a newsroom leader, editor and author of "Leadership: How Real Estate Leaders Can Act Decisively to Change," with a specialization in politics, business, real estate, finance and technology.