About: Eric was a staff writer at the Washington Post. He has written for the Metro, Style and the Sunday Magazine sections of the paper and has written numerous front-page stories about the changing cultural shifts in American society. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.

He's also worked at the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, OR, as a general assignment and crime reporter. He has also taught journalism at Georgetown University and at The University of Richmond. He has been a Georgetown University Journalism Fellow and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post Magazine.

He is the founder of JournalismNext.com