Welcome to my personal website. I've been a journalist for 27 years in a variety of newspaper and online positions. I'm currently in charge of the rewrite/continuous news desk at USA TODAY. Here's my resume and here are a few clips:

USATODAY.com: 'On Deadline'. This is a Google search of posts I've written for On Deadline, USATODAY.com's breaking news blog. I proposed this blog, oversaw its construction, supervise the bloggers who write for it, and (on occasion, as shown by this search) write for it.

USATODAY.com: New Hampshire primary. This story was "live-written" as results came in for the New Hampshire primary , and was substituted out at the end of the night with a newspaper story.

USATODAY.com: Iowa caucuses. Like the New Hampshire story, this story was "live-written" as the caucuses went along, and was substituted out at the end of the night with a newspaper story.

USATODAY.com: 33 dead in Virginia Tech shooting. I oversaw/edited/wrote this story for the website for a large portion of the day of the shooting.

USATODAY.com: 'Ford came along when we needed him most,' Bush says. Here's a reaction piece to the death of former president Gerald Ford.

USATODAY.com: House overhauls page program. This is a classic sort of story I might write in a given day -- a breaking news article on a hot topic.

USATODAY.com: 2006 election night mainbar. I wrote our "live" main story on Election Night 2006, updating it more than 40 times. Here's the final version.

USATODAY.com: Coverage of Cory Lidle plane crash in 2006. I wrote this story, based on phone calls, feeds from reporters on the scene and wire service dispatches.

USATODAY.com: Hurricane Katrina. This piece includes reporter contributions, wire stuff and pulls from various newsers and TV feeds.

USATODAY.com: Rolling Stones live: Opening Night at Fenway Park. A live blog of the opening night of the Rolling Stones' 2005 world tour.

USATODAY.com: Michael Jackson acquitted. Hosted on my site because this story was overwritten by newspaper copy.

USATODAY.com: New pope elected. I wrote this one from home on my day off, using wires, TV coverage and e-mail from folks in Vatican City.

Pope John Paul II dies. I assembled this mainbar, then passed it off to another editor the next day.

USATODAY.com 2004 tsunami blog

USATODAY.com Election 2004

USATODAY.com: Final 2004 presidential debate. Despite all of the names at the bottom of the story, I wrote 80% of it and edited the copy. I also wrote the web site's Election Night mainbar, but that subsequently got overwritten by newspaper copy the next day and disappeared into the ether before I could make a screen grab.

The very last USATODAY.com ElectionLine blog. USATODAY.com's production system makes it impossible to keep archival versions of a page that has the same url, so there is no online record of this blog except for this very last one.

CNN.com: Special Report: The Clinton years. This 2001 piece got a great deal of circulation; The Boston Globe's David Nyhan even used it as the basis for much of a column.

CNN.com: George W. Bush: The first 100 days. Another analysis piece that got big play.

CNN.com: 2000 year in review: Politics.

CNN.com: King Biscuit blues: Performances and politics. A 1999 article about my favorite music festival.