About the Author

Tony Rogers earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin. From 1993 to 1997 he worked at the New York Daily News, one of the nation's biggest papers, where he was the Long Island Bureau Chief and later the Deputy National News Editor. He has also been a reporter for The Associated Press, a copy editor for the Philadelphia Daily News, a police reporter and copy editor for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis., and a reporter for the Auckland Star in New Zealand. When he's not teaching journalism he enjoys jazz, the films of Akira Kurosawa and the novels of Haruki Murakami.