| A former Nickelodeon Online producer & head writer, law school dropout, and doomed Wheel-of-Fortune contestant, Joel Schwartzberg founded the TIME For Kids website in 2000, and served as Editorial Director for Time Inc. Interactive until 2004. Currently Director of New Media for the newsmagazine NOW on PBS, Joel is a member of the Online News Association, the Academy of Media Arts & Sciences, and is a Webby Awards judge. Joel is also an official blogger for The Huffington Post, as well as a featured blogger for the Star Ledger's news blog, NJ Voices. In 2008, he won 2nd place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' Column-Writing Competition, and is currently a nominee for "Best Commentary" from the 2008 Online News Association Awards The father of three, Joel's freelance essays jave been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, New Jersey Monthly, The Star-Ledger (New Jersey's largest daily newspaper), Babble.com, The Irreverent Homemaker, The News-Record of Maplewood and South Orange, and in the flimsy pages of a number of regional parenting magazines. Joel was named February 2007 "Humor Writer of the Month" by the award-winning University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writing Workshop Website. He's won 12 awards from the Humor Press' "America's Funniest Humor Writing Contest", including 2nd Place in 2006 and 4th Place in 2007. Not exactly the Pulitzer Prize, but Joel takes credit wherever he can find it. Joel has ten unproduced screenplays to his credit, including a 2005 Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition Finalist, "Rosabelle Believe;" a 2006 Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalist, "Guardian Angels"; and a 2007 Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition Finalist, "Midnight Screaming." Wait, wait, there's more: A 1990 National Champion in public speaking, Joel was inducted into the National Forensic Association Hall of Fame in 2002. He coached competitive forensics teams at Queens College, St. Joseph's University, Seton Hall University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is now instructing a regular Mediabistro class on public speaking In his free time, Joel likes to eat, breathe, and watch things move. This is a paragraph that does not begin with the word "Joel" to demonstrate Joel's mastery of fluid writing in the third person. HOME |
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