Wilkinson College English professor Tom Zoellner (whose Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire won the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book) recently published Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona – a story about his 46-day journey hiking through the redrock country
The dream of being a journalist came true for Professor Tom Zoellner (English), who wrote for a succession of daily newspapers across the country before coming to Chapman University. “It was a terrific career for about ten years until the Internet took its toll, the zest started going out of the business, and newspapers shrank
Newspaper opinion pieces – known colloquially as op-eds — are one of the most effective ways to reach a big audience and change the thinking of decision-makers. In this hour-long session, Chapman English professor Tom Zoellner goes over winning strategies for distilling academic research into a cogent and compelling op-ed and demystifies the process for getting it pitched