Robert Knight

My Interests:

crossword puzzles, acting, singing, history, politics, wordsmithing

Political Skills:

phonebanking, writing news releases, media contact, op-ed writing

Favorite Quote:

From a sign at the recent Washington rally:

"Why doesn't someone give him a blowjob so we can impeach him?"

About Me:

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Robert Knight has spent virtually his entire adult life writing and teaching others how to write. A veteran journalist in print and broadcast, he is the author of “A Journalistic Approach to Good Writing; the Craft of Clarity� (2nd edition, Iowa State Press, 2003).

As a freelancer, Knight has written for more than 40 publications and news services, frequently for The Chicago Tribune and its Sunday magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Reuters and The Washington Post. He has written full-length features for the inflight magazines of American Airlines, United Air Lines and Delta Airlines, and has written for a number of business and professional clients.

He provides a lively writing style for subjects as diverse as culture, business, sports, politics and travel.

Knight spent his early career as a wire service, newspaper and broadcast reporter in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M.

A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Knight earned his master’s degree many years later at DePaul University in Chicago. For 13 years, he taught journalistic writing to adults at Northwestern University and, for six years, he taught English and journalism at Gettysburg College.

Before he attended college, he served in the U.S. Navy. Knight is a former president of the Chicago professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.