BARRETT BROWN
WRITER/ EDITOR/ WEB CONTENT PRODUCER
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
barriticus@gmail.com

Communications Industry Skills

Writing for all media. Web content development, strategic blogging, consumer and corporate feature writing. Creating copy for print, broadcast and interactive collateral, concept development for advertising and marketing campaigns. 
Editing for consistency, accuracy and content  AP, Chicago, and new media styles. Editorial oversight for brand positioning and enhancement. 
Deadline-driven, creative and collaborative.

Published Work/ Media Experience

Fortean Times  Book reviewer for monthly, London-based magazine. January 2009  present.

Thomas Riggs and Company  Contributed 20,000 words of material for academic publishing company's upcoming reference book on U.S. cities. January 2009.

Studio 2a  Part-time marketing consultant for Chicago-based architectural rendering firm, handling all sales letters, marketing copy, and long-term branding strategies. 2007  2009.

PoliticalBase.com  Created content and served as paid blogger for online political news start-up founded by CNET. 2007 - 2008.

The Onion A.V. Club  Freelance copywriting for The Onion's features department. 2006 - 2008.

Sterling and Ross Publishers  Authored nonfiction book of political humor, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, released in March 2007. Book received praise from Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Rolling Stone, Skeptic, Air America Radio, Huffington Post, others.

Anglesey Interactive, Inc.  Produced online marketing collateral  web text, press releases, blogging  in support of firm's integrated search engine. 2007  2008.

Dining Out - Feature writing for national restaurant publication. 2006  2008.

National Lampoon - Occasional contributor; past features include "Pick-Up Lines That Don't Seem to Work," "Craig's Conspiracy Corner," "A Guide to Dealing with Housecats," more. 2003  2006.

Sullivan Perkins  Served as junior copywriter at Dallas-based advertising firm. 2003.

Evote.com - Weekly columnist and feature writer for political analysis site. 2004  2005. 

AOL CityGuide - Web content writer. Researched and created coverage of event and entertainment venues. Served as regional correspondent for Dallas, Austin, New Orleans, Houston and Little Rock markets. 2000  2004.

Additional magazine work - Ongoing, have contributed feature articles from serious political commentary and book reviews to humor pieces and dining overviews for outlets including Vanity Fair, academic publications Skeptic and Fortean Times, business-to-business publications Pizza Today, 360, Club Systems International, Destination Dallas, D.C.-based public policy journal Toward Freedom, London-based public policy journal Free Life, humor magazine Jest, regional publications The Met, Austin Monthly, Dallas Child, literary journal Swans, dozens more.

Other writing projects - Created both print and online marketing collateral for New York tech start-up Organic Motion, Inc. Wrote online marketing collateral for New York corporate training firm Illuminata Global. Researched and wrote entertainment/dining/venue content for Dallas ad agency Avacata and clients' marketing collateral, including that of luxury resort real estate firm. Have produced website copy for design firm NPCreate.com, provided public relations pieces for Texas energy companies EBS and S.K. Oil and Gas and Dallas real estate firm Dunhill Partners.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Education
B.A. in Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, College of Communications                                                                                                                                      


