Bill Barol

Current

• Contributor (freelance) at True/Slant
• Contributor (freelance) at Fast Company Magazine
• Contributor (freelance) at The Huffington Post

• President at Bill's Big House O' Fun

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Past

• Author at Bonus Books
• Contributor (freelance) at Fortune Magazine
• Contributor (contract) at Time Magazine

• Contributor (freelance) at Slate Magazine
• Writer/producer at Twentieth Television
• Screenwriter at The Walt Disney Company
• Contributing Writer (contract) at Time Magazine
• Columnist ("American Made") at American Heritage Magazine
• Senior Writer at Newsweek

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Education

• Harvard University

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Bill Barol’s Summary

I spent much of the 1980s at Newsweek. Since then I've written for a lot of other publications; some are listed below, and others include The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, TV Guide, Washington Journalism Review and American Journalism Review. I've also written for TV and movies and authored the world's worst advice book, the aptly-named "Mr. Irresponsible's Bad Advice."

Bill Barol’s Specialties:

Writing, editing, web design

Bill Barol’s Experience

• Contributor (freelance)

  True/Slant

  (Privately Held; Writing and Editing industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

• Contributor (freelance)

  Fast Company Magazine

  (Publishing industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  February 2009: Double Vision
  http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132
  
  February 2009: The Best Super Bowl Ad Ever!
  http://www.billbarol.com/FC0209Superbowl.pdf
  
  October 2008: Little Shop of Horrors.
  hhttp://www.billbarol.com/FC1009Shop.pdf
  
  July-August 2008: Brand Mash-Ups.
  hhttp://www.billbarol.com/FC0708License.pdf
  
  May 2008: The secret history of Domino's online order-tracking system.
  http://www.billbarol.com/FC0508Pizza.pdf

• Contributor (freelance)

  The Huffington Post

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• President

  Bill's Big House O' Fun

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  1998 — Present (11 years )

  Bill's Big House O' Fun is the corporate entity under whose auspices I write. It occupies a lavish suite of offices on the top floor of a glass-and-steel skyscraper in the heart of one of America's great cities, and is fictional. At dusk you can (or could, if it were real) sit and watch the western sky dim from blue to purple to black. The lights of the city wink on one by one at first, and then floor by floor, until -- it seems to happen before you even really notice it, or it would if this weren't made up -- the nighttime city seems lit with a light brighter and more clarifying than daylight itself. You doze. Eventually the dawn rises up and you wake from your fitful sleep, there in your armchair by the window. You stand, stretch, yawn, stretch again. It's another fake day. One of these fake days she'll return to you. And when she does you'll be waiting, in the skylit office on top of the skyscraping building in the exact center of the only non-actual world we know.

• Author

  Bonus Books

  (Publishing industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Author of "Mr. Irresponsible's Bad Advice: How To Rip The Lid Off Your Id And Live Happily Ever After."
  Promotional website: http://blather.typepad.com/badadvice

• Contributor (freelance)

  Fortune Magazine

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Publishing industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

• Contributor (contract)

  Time Magazine

  (Public Company; TWX; Publishing industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

• Contributor (freelance)

  Slate Magazine

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

• Writer/producer

  Twentieth Television

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Entertainment industry)

  1990 — 1998 (8 years )

  ...also Warner Bros., Paramount, and a variety of other studios, on a variety of TV shows including "Anything But Love," "Dweebs," "Cafe Americain," "Townies" and "Fired Up."

• Screenwriter

  The Walt Disney Company

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Entertainment industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

  Author of "Rock of Ages," a fantastic screenplay that I'm almost positive is available for development.

• Contributing Writer (contract)

  Time Magazine

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Publishing industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year )

• Columnist ("American Made")

  American Heritage Magazine

  (Publishing industry)

  1989 — 1990 (1 year )

• Senior Writer

  Newsweek

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; WPO; Publishing industry)

  1981 — 1990 (9 years )

Bill Barol’s Education

• Harvard University

  1975 — 1979

Additional Information

Bill Barol’s Interests:

Music, web design, cooking, marathon running

Bill Barol’s Groups:

Writers Guild of America

•    Newsweek

Bill Barol’s Honors:

I was, and this is true, the sixth-place winner (Feature Division) in The American Bowling Congress's 1995 "Best Bowling Stories of the Year" competition. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.

Bill Barol’s Contact Settings

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