My name is John Hendel and I’m a 23-year-old writer and journalist living in St. Louis. I absolutely love travel, music, literature, and anything that challenges my assumptions about the world around me.
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.
I graduated from the University of Missouri in May of 2008 with bachelor’s degrees in magazine journalism and history. During my three undergrad years, I covered arts and business stories for our town’s newspaper and magazines, wrote for two semesters as a weekly columnist for our campus newspaper, led two environmental service trips, and wrote a 99-page honors history thesis on Fyodor Dostoevsky and Russian radicalism.
In addition to my studies at the University of Missouri, I’ve also worked and studied abroad three times in the last four years: this past 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.
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.
