Eric Olsen (writer)
| Eric Olsen | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 5, 1958 San Pedro, California |
| Occupation | journalist, blogger, publisher |
| Nationality | United States |
| Period | 1980s-current |
Eric Olsen (born August 5, 1958) was the founder, editor-in-chief, and publisher of broad-based online critical magazine Blogcritics and author of local Cleveland blog Cleve-blog. He is also a widely read and influential blogger. His primary site, Blogcritics, has gathered together over 2,000 authors on a wide variety of topics and is a widely read news/information site with over 64,000 unique visits per day, and 50 new articles and reviews posted daily on a variety of topics. In 2008, Olsen and his partners sold Blogcritics.org to media property Technorati.com and worked as the publisher and editor-in-chief to both Blogcritics.org and Technorati.com's newly re-launched original online media content site until September 2010. On April 24 of 2011, he, along with writer Andre Morton and his partner/wife Dawn Olsen, launched TheMortonReport.com.
As CEO and co-founder of TheMortonReport.com, Eric and Dawn will be working side by side with famed celebrity biographer Andrew Morton to bring original quality content to the Internet, focusing on celebrities, entertainment and popular culture.
Olsen was named a Trendsetter on the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100—a "power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution," in 2005.
Over the last 20 years, Olsen has written for print and online publications on a wide variety of topics, from popular media to politics, and his work has appeared in Playboy, Billboard, Alternative Press, Option, The Plain Dealer, the Akron Beacon Journal, Hear/Say, MSNBC.com, Cleveland.com, and other outlets.
His book publications include Networking In the Music Industry (with Jim Clevo, Rockpress, 1993) and The Encyclopedia of Record Producers (with Paul Verna and Carlo Wolff, Billboard Books, 1999), a definitive work in the field featuring original interviews, bios, and discographies of over 500 of the leading producers in recording history.
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