About the Author

Samuel J. Scott is a former Boston journalist and non-profit executive director who is currently a marketing writer, M.B.A. student, business consultant, and freelance columnist in Israel. This blog will publish essays on topics ranging from politics and religion to media and business.

Scott is a former editor and executive director of Spare Change News, an alternative newspaper and non-profit organization in Boston. Prior to working at SCN, he wrote for Massachusetts newspapers including The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, The Boston Courant, and The Beacon Hill Times, as well as TNT magazine in London. Prior to working in journalism, Scott was a staff assistant at the Beacon Hill Institute, an economic think-tank at Suffolk University.

Scott has a B.S. in journalism from Boston University. He is in the International M.B.A. program at Bar-Ilan University in Israel after pursuing prior studies in the Executive M.B.A. program at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott has lived, traveled or studied in Britain, Canada, Egypt, India and Israel, as well as in various parts of the United States. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Belleville, Illinois, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts.

Scott currently lives in Israel. He can be contacted at sjscott80 (at) gmail.com. His opinions are his own and not necessarily reflective of any employer or university.