Mark Blaine

Biography:

Mark Blaine is an award-winning writer, investigative reporter and editor. His focus in the School of Journalism and Communication is on storytelling and new media, and over the past five years, he has worked to develop wiki, blog and content-management-based systems for basic reporting and information gathering courses. He also advises Flux Magazine and has worked to adapt it from a print-only publication to a web-centered, social-media wired experience for SOJC students. He was previously the editor of Forest Magazine, a national environmental magazine dealing with public land policy issues. Blaine worked for four years at the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times as an editor and investigative reporter in the mid 1990s. Blaine is the author of Whitewater: The Thrill and Skill of Running the World’s Great Rivers (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001) and was a ghost writer for To the Sea (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2000). In addition to Forest, his work has appeared in Canoe and Kayak, Oregon Humanities and Oregon Quarterly. His writing interests have recently focused on the evolution of sports and rules.

Blaine is a graduate of the Literary Nonfiction writing program at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.