Contributors
JOHN HATCHER
I have nearly 20 years experience as a journalist, educator, newsroom trainer and writing coach.
I received my Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in fall 2007. I taught journalism to graduate and undergraduate students at Syracuse from 2003 to 2006. Before that, I was education director at the Center for Community Journalism, based at the State University of New York at Oswego, where I taught a course that produced an online community newspaper. I have visited newspapers across the nation and conducted workshops at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the American Press Institute. I still work as an independent consultant and freelance journalist. From 1992 to 2003, I worked for The Daily Messenger, a small daily newspaper in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. As a freelance writer, I have published articles in the American Journalism Review, the Columbia Journalism Review, Mother Jones and numerous online publications.
I am married and have three children, a cat and a dog. My passions are long naps, eating and any sport that involves being outside in any kind of weather. When the conditions are right, I can be found in Lake Superior on my surfboard.
