Global trade series. I inaugurated the monthly Country Profile feature in Business Today Egypt magazine, a comprehensive evaluation of Egypt's attempts to increase exports to and investment by major trading partners.
For each package I researched and composed a 2,500- to 3,000-word main article identifying problems and opportunities, as well as five sidebars devoted to the target country's cities of economic significance, its major firms doing business in Egypt, hot sectors, a Q&A with its ambassador, and a list of resources for further information.
I wrote the first eight Country Profiles: Italy (not available online) | Germany | Spain | U.S. | Holland | South Korea | France | Switzerland
More global trade articles:
The WTO and developing countries Business Today Egypt
Egypt's difficulties with privatization Business Today Egypt
Tanker spill affects safety regulations worldwide Oil & Gas North Africa
September 11: Op-ed piece | Overview of events | Investor and expatriate reaction. Business Today Egypt except the last, Cairo Times
Pan-Arab politics: New leader tries to reform the Arab League Egypt Today
Culture: Review of the Cairo International Film Festival Egypt Today
Technology:
The risk of privacy invasion in Internet chat rooms PC World Egypt
High-speed bidding and project logs -- installments of a monthly column I wrote on information technology and e-commerce in the oil and gas industry. Oil & Gas North Africa
Newspaper articles
Wrestler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura
As lead political reporter for the Duluth News-Tribune, I wrote extensively about the election novelty of the decade -- former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura winning the Minnesota governor's race.
During the campaign I followed Ventura for this candidate profile. I won an Associated Press award for my election-night lead story and analysis. Analysis the following two days asked, "Can he govern?" and estimated the spillover benefit for third-party movements.
I hung out behind closed doors with Ventura's transition team for an article on his unusual preparation process, "Celebrity in Chief," and I attempted to capture the surreal quality of his inauguration. After a month and a half in office, Ventura sat down with me for a progress report interview.
Election coverage
A fierce-fought 1996 legislative race was flooded with contradictory claims. Readers said my coverage and analysis helped separate the truths from the half-truths.
I added analysis to a column of news tidbits that I named "Election Bulletin Board." Examples: "Calling all Gen-X
voters" and "Candidate not running from
Gingrich."
Analysis pieces in 1998 looked at how the governor both aided and undermined a ballot initiative and how labor unions influenced the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Legislative coverage
• Understanding welfare
reform and comparing different approaches by several states Requires Acrobat Reader
• Profiles: Ousted as speaker of the House,
is legislator planning a comeback?
State's oldest legislator confronts cancer as stubbornly as he pushed environmentalism
• Why tax systems get more complicated
From The Evansville (Indiana) Press:
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• An electric utility tells its employees to lobby the legislature on company time
• Republicans tried to rewrite the legislative map, but where was their new map?
• The quiet death of a smoke detector regulation
General reporting
• Gardener transforms
forgotten park
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