Joshua Benton is a writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He is the founding director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, an effort to help journalism adapt in the Internet age.

Before that, he was an investigative reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent, and rock critic for two newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and The Toledo Blade. Before that, he attended Yale University, studying history — particularly the history of the American south. Before that, he was much shorter. He grew up in a small town in south Louisiana.

Best way to contact him is email: joshua_benton@harvard.edu for work stuff, jbenton@toast.net for non-work stuff.

He speaks regularly about journalism issues. Get in touch if that interests you.

Interests include: Cajun culture, the indie rock of his youth, certain Graham Greene entertainments, South American charismatic megafauna, cities that were once the most populous in the world, coding, typography, Twitter APIs, the New Orleans Saints, American racism, disruptive innovation, 1980s Jason Bateman sitcoms, Ty Lawson, the Darien Gap, tropicalismo, 1970s militant leftist movements, and boiled crawfish.

All his Nieman Lab pieces are here. You can find all his old newspaper stories over here. He used to maintain a blog; its remains are here.

He tweets. Over here.

He sometimes tweets in French, for practice. Ici.

Have a good one.