About
Hi. I’m a freelance journalist and data specialist living in Memphis, Tennessee.
I bounced around a good bit to get here. I grew up in West Virginia, interned at the Charleston Daily Mail, worked at The Dominion Post for a couple years before moving to Missouri for grad school. I spent a semester working at NICAR, a winter in D.C. at Gannett News Service analyzing EPA sewage data, and a summer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a data reporting intern. Now I’m digging Memphis.
I do data reporting, analysis and web work for The Commercial Appeal newspaper, and I teach a web design course at the University of Memphis Department of Journalism. When I’m not doing those things, I like to be outside as much as possible, fishing and whatnot, or fixing our hundred-year-old house in Midtown.
My wife, the good Dr. Carrie Brown-Smith, and I have two dogs. I’m a member of team Hit For Brains in Memphis Dodgeball.
I freelance for the The Commercial Appeal, but this website is all me. That said, you should check out the CA’s Data Center, where a lot of my work ends up.
