About The Idiot Who Runs This Site.

Dan Oshinsky is currently working on the launch of a new series of news bureaus called Stry. More information can be found at its website, Stry.us.

All rational thoughts, ramblings or nonsense posted here are Dan’s own.

Dan is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, where he majored in convergence journalism. Most recently, Dan worked at a digital media producer at KENS-5 TV in San Antonio. He has also worked as a freelance journalist at the Beijing Olympics for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colo. He has been published in The Boston Globe and The Washington Examiner, and also interned at CBS News, The Nantucket Independent and The Gazette of Business and Politics (in Montgomery County, Md.).

Dan’s full resume is also available in one paragraph. A more comprehensive list of things about Dan that might require a full team of Austrian psychologists to unpack can be found here.

He can be reached at dan.oshinsky [at] gmail.com.

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