- Michael Totten
Michael J. Totten is a blogger who writes on politics in the Middle East, regularly reporting first-hand in mainstream publications, Web sites, and his blog, "Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal". Totten supported the war in Iraq and in an article for the conservative FrontPage Magazine.com entitled "A Liberal's Case for Bush's War" wrote "If you don't join us now, when Saddam's regime falls and Iraqis cheer the US Marines, … - Ernie Schenck
Ernie Schenck is one of the most highly awarded and influential names in advertising and has worked as a writer, creative director and freelance creative consultant for some of the most prestigious ad agencies in the United States. Twice, he has been named to the AdWeek All Star Creative Team. An Emmy Award nominee, he has won every major award in the business and is one of the only American creative people ever to be named Print Copywriter of the Year in Great Britain. - Alex Mandossian
Alex Mandossian (born March 9, 1964) is an American motivational speaker, author and trainer (business). He owns one of the largest personal marketing libraries ever assembled, with over 1800 rare books and volumes dating back to the 1800s. Mandossian is considered one of the top ten freelance direct marketers in America today and has generated over $203 million in sales via direct response marketing such as TV infomercials on QVC and Home Shopping Network, … - Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook (born in 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who has published in "The Guardian", "The Observer", "ZNet", "Electronic Intifada", "CounterPunch", Al Jazeera and Information Clearing House. He authored the book "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State". - Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven, (baptized December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. - Psalm
Psalm is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne Australia. His notability comes from the prolific nature of his art, the skill of his work and his unique and individual style. Psalm used to be an architectural drafter and didn't like it so went back to school. He is now a freelance graphic artist. Psalm has been involved in graffiti since about 1989. Psalm was one of the first street artists painting in Melbourne, starting in 1999. - Richard Engel
Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads fluent Arabic and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest", published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq war from Baghdad. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow award, … - P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University. He confesses that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a complete "volte-face". He emerged as a political observer and humorist with definite libertarian, sometimes conservative, … - Standard Design
Standard Design is the pen name for Tom Pappalardo, a Northampton, Massachusetts illustrator/graphic designer/comic artist best known for his comic books "Failure, Incompetence", "Famous Fighters" (with co-creator Matt Smith), and "Broken Lines". He is also a concert poster artist and the creator of the weekly comic strip "Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!". Standard Design does freelance illustration, design and motion graphics work. - Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget is CEO of Cherry Hill Associates, LLC, an Internet research and consulting firm. He serves as an advisor to several Internet companies, edits an award-winning blog, Internet Outsider , and is a frequent contributor to Slate , Newsweek International , The New York Times , and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing . - Zahra Kazemi
Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal, Canada, who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest. Although Iran's regime insists that her death was accidental, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who left Iran and sought asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi's body and observed evidence of rape and torture, including a skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, … - Keith Baker
Keith Baker is a freelance writer of "Dungeons & Dragons" material and is most well known for his setting, Eberron, which won the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search. In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on Eberron material, he has also contributed material for Atlas Games, Goodman Games, and Green Ronin Games. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Ellen. He has a tattoo of the Greater Mark of Making on his right arm. - Jon Foster
Jon Foster is an American freelance illustrator, penciler, and sculptor. He is best known for his comic book covers (DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics) and other works featured in Dungeons & Dragons and Alternity. Jon Foster studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1989. His paintings are oils on canvas and are known to have a dark or muted color pallet. Typically, they incorporate subject matter like good vs. evil, anger, and adventure. - Richard Jones
Richard Jones (born 7 June, 1953) is a British freelance opera and theatre director. - Brian Crecente
Brian Crecente, sometimes credited as Brian D. Crecente or Crecente, is a staff writer and columnist for the Rocky Mountain News. He is also creator and moderator of Red Assed Baboon a website about "gamers on games" and is the current editor of Kotaku, which focuses on video game culture. It is a Gawker Media affiliate. Crecente graduated from Anne Arundel Community College in May 1992, then received a Bachelor of Arts in "Journalism, … - Peter Krause
Peter Krause is an American comic book artist. He is best known for his work on various DC Comics titles, most notably the "Superman"-related titles and "The Power of Shazam!" with Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. Krause, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, currently works as a freelance illustrator. - Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. A former "Spectator" Young Writer of the Year, he grew up in Yorkshire and studied at Oxford University. After qualifying as a barrister he became a freelance journalist in which capacity he has written about the North, class, trains, seaside towns and eccentric individuals. He has written for "The Guardian", "The Daily Telegraph", … - Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and holds this honour till 2009. Rosen's father was a secondary school teacher before becoming a professor of English at the Institute of Education, London, … - Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips (born January 1971) is an Australian freelance animator. His recent work, for which he is best known, has consisted of flash animation compositions published on his website Bitey Castle and on the flash portal Newgrounds (there, as of December 2006, his movies have over six million views and he is the third highest-rated artist with a 'Batting Average' of 4.21 out of 5). He is the creator of the Brackenwood series. - Gabriele Torsello
"Kash" Gabriele Torsello is an Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on October 12 2006. He was released on November 3 2006. Torsello is a Muslim convert. - Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. - Mike Luckovich
Mike Luckovich (born January 28, 1960) is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" since 1989. He is syndicated nationally to about 150 newspapers (as of October 2005), through Creators Syndicate and is the 2006 winner of the Reuben, the National Cartoonist Society's top award for cartoonist of the year. Luckovich began his career with the "The Greenville News" in South Carolina in 1984, … - Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch is a gay, Jewish, author, journalist and activist, born 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch worked at the "Winston-Salem Journal" in North Carolina, for the "National Journal" magazine, and finally as a freelance writer. Currently a senior writer and biweekly columnist for the "National Journal", a correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly" and "Reason", … - Mariane Pearl
Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (b. July 23, 1967 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French freelance journalist, reporter and Global Diary columnist for "Glamour" magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the "Wall Street Journal" reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Of Dutch-Jewish, Afro-Latino-Cuban and Chinese Cuban ancestry and raised in Paris, … - David Bishop
David Bishop is a freelance screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the "Judge Dredd Megazine" and "2000 AD", the latter between 1995 and the summer of 2000. More recently he has become a prolific author and received his first drama scriptwriting credit when BBC Radio 4 broadcast his radio play Island Blue: Ronald in June 2006. - Murray Waas
Murray S. Waas (born circa 1968) is an American freelance investigative journalist noted most recently for his coverage of the White House planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensuing controversies such as the CIA leak investigation. His recent articles have appeared in "The New Yorker" The American Prospect", "The National Journal", and "Salon". - Shari Goldhagen
Shari Goldhagen is an American author of fiction. She is originally from Cincinnati,Ohio, the daughter of a grade-school teacher and a jewelry salesman. After briefly attending Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. she transfereed to Northwestern University, where she earned a journalism degree. Following this, she moved to Columbus, Ohio where she earned an MFA from Ohio State University. She has been a journalist for National Enquirer, Life & Style and Celebrity Living Weekly. - Adam Zyglis
Adam Zyglis is an American editorial cartoonist who works for the "Buffalo News" of Buffalo, New York; he replaced Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Toles in this position when Toles became the cartoonist for the "Washington Post". Before the "News", he was the cartoonist for "The Griffin", the student newspaper at Canisius College from which he graduated in 2004. - Lila Rajiva
Lila Rajiva is a freelance journalist and Baltimore, Maryland resident. She was born in India and graduated from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at the University of Maryland. Lila Rajiva's work can be found on web publications, including CounterPunch.org, Dissident Voice, doublestandards.org, and MRZine. She is the author of "The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media" (2005), published by Monthly Review Press. - John Bailey
John "Beetle" Bailey is a Canadian freelance recording engineer who won the 2007 Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year. He has worked with such musicians as The Headstones, Tom Cochrane, Haywire, Triumph and Love Inc.. - Anne Midgette
Anne Midgette is a classical music reviewer for "The New York Times". After graduating from Yale University, she lived for 11 years in Munich, Germany, reviewing opera, music and art throughout Europe for "The Wall Street Journal," "Opera News," and other publications. Anne Midgette returned to New York and, after several other writing stints, became the first woman to review classical music for "The New York Times" on a regular basis in 2001. - John Lucas
John Lucas is an American comic book inker and penciller, whose style has been compared with that of Russ Heath and Jack Kirby. A prolific freelance contributor to both DC and Marvel Comics, Lucas has also produced a great deal of small press work, as well as 'Valkyries' (with Steve Moore) for 2000 AD. Lucas currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. - Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson (born September 8, 1978) is a freelance audio engineer and record producer based in Montreal, Canada. He has contributed to, among others, Islands, Arcade Fire, Ballast, Bell Orchestre, SoCalled, Alden Penner, the The Hamster Cage (2005) film score, as well as the television program Da Vinci's Inquest. Notably, he was the audio engineer and record producer of The Unicorns' "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?" for Alien8 Recordings. - Ami McKay
Ami McKay began her writing career as a freelancer for CBC Radio. Her work has aired on "Maritime Magazine", "Outfront", "This Morning" and "Sunday Edition". Her documentary, "Daughter of Family G" won an Excellence in Journalism Medallion at the 2003 Atlantic Journalism Awards. She was a finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition as well as the recipient of a grant from the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, … - Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, "The Rape of Nanking". She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown. - Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd (born 1944) is a freelance illustrator specializing in advertising and digital artwork. Lloyd was born in England in 1944, but moved to the United States in 1959, where he was the youngest student to graduate from the Art Center College of Design with a master's degree. Lloyd provided art to several large advertising clients in the 1960s, including National Geographic and the National Football League. - Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Carol Ann Duffy was awarded an OBE in 1995, and a CBE in 2002. She now lives in Manchester with her daughter Ella (born 1995) whose father is the writer Peter Benson. She used to live with her partner, the poet Jackie Kay, but they split up in late 2004 - Pat Mills
Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating "2000 AD" and playing a major part in the development of "Judge Dredd". - Ben Brantley
Ben Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is the chief theatre critic of the "New York Times". Born Benjamin D. Brantley in Durham, North Carolina, Brantley received a B.A. degree in English from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Brantley began his journalism career as a summer intern at the "Winston-Salem Sentinel" in 1976 and an editorial assistant at "The Village Voice" in 1975.
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