Chip Scanlan, visiting associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and former faculty at The Poynter Institute, spent two decades as a reporter, feature writer and national correspondent, and won 16 awards for writing, congressional reporting and public service, including a Robert F. Kennedy award for his exposé of hazardous exports to developing countries.

Scanlan worked for Knight Ridder Newspapers Washington Bureau, St. Petersburg Times and the Providence Journal during his reporting career. In 1994, he joined The Poynter Institute as director of writing programs. During his 15 years there, he edited the “Best Newspaper Writing” series, ran a summer program in reporting and writing for college graduates, and oversaw the National Writers Workshops, which provided low-cost training to thousands of journalists and other writers from Seattle to Cambridge, Mass.

He’s taken his writing workshops around the globe, including Scandinavia and Asia. His interests lie in reporting the news, telling the stories of our time across media platforms, narrative, and time management and productivity.

He blogs writing advice at Chip on Your Shoulder, has written a journalism textbook with another due in 2010 from Oxford University Press. His articles, essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, The American Scholar, The Washington Post Magazine and Salon.com.

He and his wife, Katharine Fair, have written two newspaper serial novels published in more than 60 newspapers and Web sites; Chip’s audio version plays on iTunes.