John Joseph Brady

John Joseph Brady lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is a visiting professor who teaches news writing and editing, as well as graphics at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has been a partner in with Greg Paul since 1984 in Brady & Paul Communications, a magazine publishing consultancy.

Career

Brady served as editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest and Boston magazine. He was founding editor of The Artist's Magazine and "M:The Magazine for Montessori Families". He was deputy editorial director at Warner Bros. Records. He served as associate editor of the 13-30 Corporation, a publishing group located in Knoxville, Tennessee that became Whittle Communications in 1986. He has been teaching at universities and in various fora since the early 1990s, including a stint in 1996 as Hearst Visiting Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Publications

In addition to writing "Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater", Brady is the author of "The Craft of the Screenwriter" (Simon & Schuster, 1981), as well as two books for journalists -- "The Craft of Interviewing" (Random House Vintage, 1976) and "The Interviewer's Handbook" (The Writer Books, 2004). He publishes a monthly column on magazine editing for "Folio" magazine.

ee also

* [http://scrippsjschool.org/faculty/faculty_details.php?oak=bradyj Biography at Scripps School of Journalism]