| Subject: Freelance copywriting |
| From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 4/21/08, 20:39 |
| To: stanford@oppresearch.com |
Jason-
I'm looking for work as a Democratic
campaign copywriter for the ongoing election cycle and so wanted to
check in with you to see if Stanford Research Group might
have any freelance work available. Incidentally, you and I met briefly at Chris Bell's campaign kick-off at UT a few years back when I was living in Austin, and you gave me your card, so I thought I'd check in with you first.
I'm a Brooklyn-based freelancer with a background in politics, journalism, and advertising. My work has appeared in dozens of publications including public policy journals, trade pubs, city magazines, alternative weeklies, general interest slicks, and humor outlets such as National Lampoon, McSweeney's, and The Onion. My first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released last March to praise from Alan Dershowitz, Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, Air America Radio's Cenk Uyger, and The Huffington Post's Bob Cesca, among other sources. I've also done contract work for Fox Business Channel (nothing evil, just a humorous animated series involving finances) and have worked both in-house and off-site for a couple of ad firms as well as for my own clients.
Along with my resume, I've attached two samples. The first is a piece on new Texas prison regulations which prevent the state's inmates from freely communicating with journalists and which was cited by Sonoma State University's Project Censored as one of the most "important under-covered news stories" of 2004. The second is a humorous, 12-page attack on William Bennett which I've excerpted from another book that I've allegedly been working very hard on.
Let me know if you have any interest in discussing this further.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown