Ink by the Barrel

With The 100 Companies, I fly to other cities, meet PR firm owners and discuss membership in our 16-market publishing …

My Westminster classmates marvel at my detailed recall of high school memories. Though I never tested well and can’t recall …

To celebrate The Charlotte Observer’s 100th anniversary, I was charged with assembling and hosting a series of Carolina-born speakers. Rev. …

Although it’s easy to be concerned by how polarized America appears to be today, perhaps now is the perfect time …

When a trainer at The Charlotte Observer posted the words “Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing,” asking where my team was in …

Immediately after the Great Recession, commercial real estate investors focused on New York and a few other major markets. Things …

With a daily subscription to The Washington Post, I was an outlier in my first-year college dorm. I found its …

I was the closest human to The Temple on Peachtree Street when it was bombed in October 1958 – but …

My Great Uncle Hughes Spalding, managing partner at King & Spalding, had just hired a bright attorney, Furman Smith, but …

As a youngster, I enjoyed starting each day with coffee and catching up on the latest opinions of AJC’s local …

My children and I submitted DNA to 23andme. Results were not surprising: I’m a mix of many races and cultures: …

This year, you indulged me. Thousands of readers clicked through to two much longer stories I wrote – one on …

When it came to naming buildings, parks and highways, my dad would quote his grandfather. He gave away most of …

Growing up, Thanksgiving meant food, family and attending the Tech-Georgia freshman football game. Now Thanksgiving occurs daily.

Hi, my name is Chris. It’s been a year since I watched.

Today is my daughter Sally‘s birthday.

Our country veers deeper each day into a chasm of divisiveness. We don’t need to assess blame here (Gingrich, Clinton, …

For three centuries, journalists and advertisers decided what you’d read in the media. The explosion of cable, satellite radio, websites, …

Atlanta has joined dozens of other U.S. cities dreamily competing for Amazon’s second headquarters. If Atlanta is selected, the impact …

It’s gratifying to follow employees as they go on to bigger and better things. Sunday, I toured the latest project …

It’s painful to watch venerable Atlanta financial firm Equifax stumble down an all-too-familiar and faulty PR path: not coming clean …

I don’t sweat small stuff. With my granddaughter joining our planet, I worry about long-term issues – climate change and …

Four years ago next month, when we first emailed The Atlanta 100 as a surprise new eNewsletter to 18,000 readers, …

Americans cheered in 1776 when Manhattan crowds destroyed a statue of King George III – and later when statues of …

Our thoughts and prayers have been with our member The Houston 100 this week as the nation’s fourth largest city …

In SPR Atlanta’s crisis management training, we’ve introduced a musical segment that helps clients remember the importance of a “bridge” …

I was to fly into Charlottesville this week to repair a brick walkway I built 40 years ago at my …

My siblings all get along and share a love for teasing my brother-in-law, Joe Cronk.

In my first reporting job, each morning I’d stop by the office of Greenville, Mississippi Police Chief Robert Skinner, who’d …

I’ve been a TV political news junkie since age 11, watching any available local or national news.