: About Me

Robert Hadley writes about business, health care, education, technology, the restaurant industry and home improvement for print and online publications.

A longtime freelancer whose work has been published by American City Business Journals and Gannet Co., Inc., he also offers expertise in employee communications, computer-assisted reporting, survey research and Web development.

Robert was most recently editor of a digital newsroom serving some 1,400 franchisees for one of the world's largest restaurant chains, a highlight of his 16-year career.

He earned a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Louisville and completed 15 additional hours of graduate-level study in English. Classical and modern rhetoric were concentration areas of his undergraduate studies, as well as minors in English and psychology.

One of his passions is narrative nonfiction - using fictional techniques to tell a true story - and he continues to attend workshops and master classes on the subject.

In his spare time, Robert works on woodworking projects, such as two hand-built computer workstations he has completed this year.

My passion is ...

telling a good story.

I know too much about ...

the restaurant business.

My childhood ambition ...

to become a meteorologist or scientist.

My favorite memory ...

winning an award for annual report writing.

Why I write ...

to get it right.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

My first job ...

selling pencil sharpeners door-to-door.

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