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Neal Ungerleider: Journalism Work for Other Publications

About these articles: I'm a writer who has worked with the largest of large publications and small startups alike. The below articles give a pretty good overview of what I've done, what I've covered, and what the highlights have been.

92nd St Y

From 2005-2006, I co-wrote a daily blog for the 92nd Street Y--one of New York's best known cultural institutions. This meant hobnobbing with visiting celebrities, interviewing the occasional big name, and keeping the pulse of an incredibly diverse space. Here are some highlights.

Ad Age

A List Daily

The Awl

  • Israel's Yuppie Revolt: A short guide to 2011's Israeli “social justice” protests, why Tel Avivians were jealous of the Arab Spring and about what happens when upwardly mobile professionals need their parents to help with rent.

Biocoder / O’Reilly Ideas

Blackbook

  • Porcetta, Haggis and Padma: 16 hours spent at the Fancy Food Show, the world’s largest gourmet food trade show. Celebrity photo-ops, haggis potato chips and 2500 kinds of cheese… what’s not to love?

The Blueprint

Budget Travel

Clamor

Esquire

Forbes Traveler

During my time at Forbes Traveler from 2007-2009, I wrote original content about travel, food, and gambling that was syndicated by partners like NBC and Yahoo!. This means that in the course of journalism I ate a hamburger that cost more than $100; for the record, it was pretty delicious--but not as good as my local diner.

Foreign Policy

Gridskipper

From 2005-2008, I was a frequent guest editor and contributor to Gawker Media's late, lamented travel blog Gridskipper. My time at Gawker began as an intern at political site Wonkette during the 2004 Presidential election; I switched over to Gridskipper and learned a lot about writing short, smart articles about interesting things in record time.

Jaunted

Jewcy

Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Section

Mansion Global

Mashable

Mediabistro: FishbowlNY

From 2008-2009, I coedited Mediabistro's FishbowlNY blog. While covering New York media is never not boring (especially when the Wall Street Journal was for sale), here were some highlights:

MenuPages / New York Magazine

I ran MenuPages.com's Philadelphia operations from 2006-2008, after which they were acquired by New York magazine and Seamless. Apart from the day to day business of running a site, I also ran the MenuPages Philadelphia Blog (which later became Grub Street Philadelphia).  Most of my writing for the blog was day-to-day coverage of Philly's dining scene, but there were some highlights:

Philadelphia City Paper

  • New Year’s in Beersheva: The best way to learn about the difference between Grad rockets and Katyushas is to have both of them fired at you.

  • Witout Borders: In which your humble correspondent tracks the cheesesteak to the furthest reaches of China and Eastern Europe.

R/GA Futurevision

Route 50

Saveur

Talking Points Memo

True/Slant

While attending graduate school at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva, Israel, I moonlighted as a Middle East correspondent for the late, lamented True/Slant. True/Slant was later acquired by Forbes, but here are a few highlights from my time there:

Wired

  • Hard Science, With a Twist: A guide to the best science-themed bar nights in the United States. Yes, science-themed bar nights.

  • The Rocky History of Rockers in Videogames: Since those halcyon days of Pong, video games have come out starring everyone from Michael Jackson to Aerosmith to the Thompson Twins. Here’s a screenshot-filled look back at the classics.

World Press Review

Screen Wars: How a spat between Silvio Berlusconi, Rupert Murdoch and Muammar al-Gaddafi almost sparked an international incident.

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