My name is John Hendel and I’m a writer and journalist living in Washington D.C. I absolutely love travel, music, literature, and anything that challenges my assumptions about the world around me. I now cover DC transportation in all its forms for TBD’s On Foot blog. Before that, I spent a year working as a writer and web producer for The Atlantic magazine as part of their fellowship program.
In the fall of 2009, I earned a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Missouri. Narrative journalism captured my imagination in grad school, and I explored its potential in graduate-level journalism and English courses. I also completed a 140-page graduate thesis, for which I conducted quantitative research examining how snarkiness affects newsreaders. In May 2008, I graduated from the University of Missouri with bachelor’s degrees in magazine journalism and history.
In addition to my studies at the University of Missouri, I’ve also worked and studied abroad three times in recent years: last summer I spent five weeks in South Korea, where I taught English in a summer camp for Korean elementary school students; I lived in London during the spring semester of 2007 and interned for the free expression magazine Index on Censorship; and I practiced my Spanish while living in Cuernavaca, Mexico during the country’s presidential election in the summer of 2006. More recently in 2010, I worked as a producer’s assistant on a feature film and an external affairs intern for the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Check out some of my published articles and design work on this website, and feel free to drop me a line regarding anything. I’m generally eager to take on new freelance work and in the past have covered education, business, the arts (music, literature, and theatre), and free expression issues.
