Resume from Barrett Brown
Subject: Resume from Barrett Brown
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 6/16/09, 16:30
To: gaby@gawker.com

Hi, Gaby-

Peter said that you might be willing to have a look at my brag sheet. I'm a Brooklyn-based freelancer and author; my work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Skeptic, The Huffington Post, The Onion A.V. Club, National Lampoon, and dozens of less interesting publications. I've also served as a blogger for a couple of outlets including Politicalbase.com, and my first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released in 2007; my second one, a critique of mainstream pundits like Thomas Friedman, is coming out next year. I've also done a little bit of work in television as a contract writer, and occasionally serve as an apathetic television pundit.

I wanted to check to see if you guys might be interested in receiving some queries from me or if you have anything you'd like to assign. I've pasted my resume below; let me know if you'd like to see some samples as well.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

BARRETT BROWN

WRITER/ EDITOR/ WEB CONTENT PRODUCER

Brooklyn, NY

512-560-2302

barriticus@gmail.com


Communications Industry Skills



Published Work/ Media Experience


Vanity Fair – Contributor to publication's Power and Politics blog. March 2009 - present

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.

Fox Business Channel, Yahoo, Minyanville.com – Writer on freelance creative team for animated humor series Minyanville, which aired on Fox Business Channel's Happy Hour program as well as on Yahoo Finance. 2007.

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 – Contributor, 2004 – 2005, 2008 - 2009

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 - Crated 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.