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Brian
Clark Howard is an award-winning multimedia journalist,
editor, writer, photographer and social media consultant
with more than a decade of experience. He is based in Washington,
D.C.
Brian
is currently Environment Writer and Editor for National
Geographic's award-winning website. Before that, he
worked as an Online Journalist at MailOnline.com, the U.S.
website of the British newspaper The Daily Mail and one
of the world's most trafficked news destinations. He also
spent three and a half years as Web Editor of The
Daily Green, Hearst's award-winning, category-leading
web magazine on the consumer's guide to the green revolution.
Brian was a core member of the team that launched the brand
and built it into the top 3 of its category (ad-supported
green websites) on ComScore. TDG gets 1 million monthly
unique visitors and 10 million monthly pageviews, and has
won awards from MIN and Treehugger's Best of Green.
Brian
is expert at using unique ways of storytelling, including
video, slideshows, infographics and blogs, as well as long-form
features. He has extensive experience managing and editing
contributors, and is a frequent guest expert on radio and
TV (eg. NPR, ABC News Now).
Brian
is an expert at SEO and social media, and led TDG to more
than 20,000
Twitter followers and 11,500
Facebook fans. He also has advised a number of brands
in these areas, leading signficant improvements in traffic
and engagement at Popular Mechanics, Esquire,
Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful and
others. Brian has also consulted with PFSK and Apple Computer.
Brian
spent five years as Managing Editor of E/The
Environmental Magazine, the U.S.’s oldest, largest
independent environmental magazine. Howard researched and
wrote articles on a diverse range of topics, including 8,000-word
cover stories, and worked extensively on the publication’s
website. He was a finalist for the Reuters/IUCN
Environmental Media Awards for his cover
story on the bottled water industry.
Brian
has co-written four books, including Green
Lighting (McGraw-Hill 2010), Geothermal
HVAC (McGraw-Hill 2010), The
Whole Green Catalog (Rodale 2009), and Green
Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the
Earth (Plume 2005). His most recent book is Build
Your Own Wind Power System (McGraw-Hill 2011) with
Kevin Shea.
Brian
has also written for many publications, including TheAtlantic.com,
Men's Health, Popular Mechanics online, Miller-McCune
magazine, Editor and Publisher online,
Connecticut Magazine, National Geographic's The
Green Guide, Alternet, Fairfield County
Weekly, Oceana, Clamor, NewAssignment.Net
and Britain’s Ergo Living. His work
is frequently syndicated by Yahoo!, MSN, Huffington
Post, AOL, the San Francisco Chronicle and
others, where he has worked closely with editors. Brian
is also an active member of the Society of Environmental
Journalists.
Brian
earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, and
holds a B.S. and B.A. in Geology and Biology from Indiana
University in Bloomington, with minors in Art History, German
and Western European Studies. In college, he conducted research
on birds and wetland ecology and on Ordovician fossils.
Brian
is originally from the Midwest (Michigan and Indiana), but
now lives in Washington, D.C. He enjoys snowboarding, hiking,
gardening, traveling, experiencing the outdoors and digesting
many forms of media, especially music, films and his favorite
TV shows, which include Breaking Bad, Weeds, The Wire,
Six Feet Under, Lost and Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.
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