My honors include recognition from the Online News Association for my Cup O' Joel blog in 2005; a first-place award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters for my commentary on Kansas Public Radio; and I was twice honored — in 2015 and 2016 — for my online commentary by the City and Regional Magazine Association. CRMA called my PhillyMag.com opinion writing "an up-close, straight-talk take on the issues."
Check out some of my best work below, and feel free to contact me.
Reporting
• As newspapers dwindle, residents in Hutchinson and elsewhere notice what’s missing, The Journal, Spring 2019
• Understanding the reversal of fortunes in Tonganoxie chicken plant controversy, The Journal, Spring 2018
• Concerned about son’s safety, a Lawrence dad asks: Why aren’t there more sidewalks? The Journal, Winter 2018
• Should Temple Have Investigated Bill Cosby in 2005? Philadelphia Magazine, August 2015
• Understanding the reversal of fortunes in Tonganoxie chicken plant controversy, The Journal, Spring 2018
• Concerned about son’s safety, a Lawrence dad asks: Why aren’t there more sidewalks? The Journal, Winter 2018
• Should Temple Have Investigated Bill Cosby in 2005? Philadelphia Magazine, August 2015
• How the Founders of Philly Tech Week Built a New-Media Empire, Philadelphia Magazine, April 2015
• Trump's Policies Could Spell Trouble in One of America's Reddest States, Vice, March 2017
• Trump's Policies Could Spell Trouble in One of America's Reddest States, Vice, March 2017
Commentary
• When did the Left stop believing in free speech? PennLive, March 2017• How Facebook and Twitter kept me in touch in the hospital, Macworld, June 2011
• Let's do away with the lie - guns really do kill people: Joel Mathis, PennLive July 2017
• Christopher Wray seems like an honest, eminently qualified FBI director. Don't confirm him. The Week, July 2017
