John is a writer and social media consultant who has worked at Village Voice Media and NBC. Before that he held several positions at various TV newsrooms in the state of California, from 1994 to 2009. He was a web editor for two years at KNTV, the NBC station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. He also held freelance writing positions at KGO, KRON and KPIX in San Francisco. He worked as a radio anchor, assignment desk manager, reporter, editor and producer at KEYT in Santa Barbara for 10 years.