Chris Colin - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Chris Colin is an award-winning magazine writer, editor and author, and is currently senior producer for the podcast Longer Table with José Andrés. (He’s senior producer for Neko Case’s upcoming podcast, too.) His writing is featured in Best American Science & Nature Writing, and has won the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Features & Long-form Storytelling, and two Lowell Thomas awards. He's a contributing writer for Afar. As a journalist he’s written features about problematic billionaires, Japan's rent-a-friend industry, Obama's Irish roots, long-term worry, endangered noodles, chimp filmmakers, George Bush’s pool boy, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, Burger King bathroom lawsuits, creepy river access wars, insurgent Barbadian road tennis, a gay chorus’s tour of the Deep South and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Wired, Saveur, the Atavist, Outside, California Sunday and Mother Jones. Regarding his latest book, OFF, Dave Eggers says, "For humanity to stay sane, this must be read like the Bible.” He's also the author of What to Talk About, with Rob Baedeker, as well as What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011. In 2015 he co-wrote This Is Camino, which was nominated for a James Beard Award. During 2020 and 2021 he published Six Feet of Separation, a free pandemic publication by and for kids — “a virtual newspaper for our troubled times,” Dan Rather called it.

Content

Total articles 160

• Big Sky, Big Sound: How a Deprived Musician Found His Creative Stride on a Montana Ranch

  By Chris Colin| AFAR Verified A river camp at the Resort at Paws Up in MontanaCourtesy of Cam Ostman/Resort at Paws Up You can’t go around ranking animals. That said, Buckshot rules all horses, just dominates. Shaggy buckskin coat. Obliging soulful eyes. Jet-black mane sweeping left then dramatically right in a way I can only describe as early ‘80s. A very good boy. We crunched along the frosted banks of the Blackfoot River, ancient and clear, the last of the pale afternoon sun slipping down the Swan Range to the north.

  By Chris Colin · AFAR

  Jan. 31, 2025

• Big Sky, Big Sound: How a Deprived Musician Found His Creative Stride on a Montana Ranch

  By Chris Colin| Flipboard@ Americans Will No Longer Need A Travel Permit To Enter Europe This YearFor many years now, Europe has been mulling over the introduction of a new travel permit that would make Transatlantic travel considerably more …

  By Chris Colin · Flipboard

  Jan. 31, 2025

• A trip into San Francisco's booming sonic art scene

  By Chris Colin| The San Francisco Standard Verified Then, somehow, the sounds morphed into a menagerie of visions parading across my blank visual field. I saw old Russian baubles lining a shelf, a plaintive hound painted for some reason in an impressionist style. Here was a saxophonist playing just 10 feet to my left. By the time the lights came back on, I was seven-dimensional.

  By Chris Colin · The San Francisco Standard

  Jul. 28, 2024

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Freelance

Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.