Writing Samples

  • News Articles and Feature Stories
    • Read samples of my news writing and feature stories.
  • Columns
    • As editor of National Catholic Reporter for seven years, I wrote a biweekly Editor’s Note column for the newspaper and blogged for the website. Here’s a sampling.
  • Editorials
    • During each year of my tenure as editor, National Catholic Reporter won first place for Best Editorial (national newspaper) from the Catholic Press Association. The editorials were written as a team, but here are some on which I was lead writer.
  • Book Reviews
    • Books I have read and want to tell you about.