Sam Coleman
Encyclopedia
Sam Coleman is an international journalist presently working in Asia, noted for investigative journalism (reportage from Iraq, the first articles on the rape drug GHB, the fate of Mollukkans in the Netherlands) having appeared in Stern
, Vive, The Guardian
and others as he's plied his management of magazines in Europe and Asia. His freelance work is represented by The Cover Story in Amsterdam.
He’s also done extensive profiles including political and social figures like former President Bill Clinton; broke the internationally renowned story of Attilla Ambrus, the Whiskey Robber in Hungary; was one of the first journalists to interview Belgian Islamic political extremist Abu Ja Ja(an article that caused him to receive death threats from the same convicted murderer of Theo van Gogh
); F1 champion Kimi Räikkönen
; Nobel Prize
winning economist Muhammad Yunus
and the former Philippine president Fidel Ramos among others.
His specialty are creatives though: entertainers, intellectuals, celebrity oddities and simply interesting entities that make a culture and a place. Writers Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer
; Jonathan Saffran Foer
(Everything is Illuminated); David Sedaris
(Me Talk Pretty Someday); Joe Klein
(Primary Colors) and other literary figures; artists such as Yoko Ono
; photographic legends Annie Leibovitz
and Cindy Sherman
; Jacques Lebel; popstars like Sonic Youth
; The Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. Business leaders such as former CEO of General Electric Jack Welch
and present CEO of Heineken, Jean François van Boxmeer. His lost weekend with Ron Jeremy
in Amsterdam, the American porn star, and a wild goat was one of his stranger experiences. His travel pieces include reports on Mykonos
, Greece; St. Martin, the Caribbean; Paris
; Transylvania
, Romania and others.
CNN did a World Report item about Sam when we was covering his favorite story in Holland, the 101 Worst, Weirdest and most Wonderful things to do in the Netherlands as well as being profiled in the countries most prestigious publication, Vrij Nederland
. He has appeared as a guest on more than 17 TV and radio talk shows as a guest as well as at political debates and public functions.
He’s lived ten years in Budapest Hungary (1990–2000) first starting as an archaeologist for the Derî Museum in Debrecen, conducting paleoethnobotanical research on Neolithic
sites, teaching Native American history and anthropology at ELTE University and then moving onto media. He was the editor of Central Europe’s first independent foreign language paper, Budapest Week
, as well as Group Editor for Budapest Style, Where Magazine Budapest, Business Hungary, NLG and others in the years following communism, as free and uncensored media sprung up in these countries. He was the editor of and Expatriates Handbook to Hungary as well as the Best of Budapest and pioneered a pirate radio program on Tilos Rádió
called "The Good, the Bad and the Unlistenable" whose guests included Kurt Loder
of MTV, internet guru and columnist John Barlow
, and Madonna
.
In 2000, he came to the Netherlands, living seven years in Amsterdam where he became Editor-in-Chief of Expats Magazine and became a contributor and columnist to award winning publication Amsterdam Weekly
(Lekker Bezig); Expatica; Roundabout
(Ssay) and Sum Magazine (the Internationals). In 2004 he was called to take part of an ambitious editorial project by Heineken International: to completely format a new global content direction of all the corporate communications including all their magazines and online content be that the World of Heineken (the company's consumer brand magazine); Horizon (the management, internal magazine), the Heineken News Network (an intranet news service) and the company's corporate website, www.heinekeninternational.com http://www.heinekeninternational.com. As appointed Editor-in-Chief, he helped revitalize the content through interviews, feature writing and a total revamping of all titles in design and delivery. The experience also allowed him to travel to the company's many global operations including Spain, France, Greece, St. Martins and others as he covered stories and helped local partners align to the new corporate vision.
From September, 2006, he became the Managing Editor for Vision KL http://www.visionkl.com/ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he and his lovely wife, DJ Stella Nutella http://www.stellanutella.com/, made a name for themselves in the media fields of music and publishing. He continued on that path, revamping the magazine and helping to create communication strategies for the Malaysia International Gourmet Festival (MIGF)http://migf.com, until 2008 when he decided to devote himself full-time to his current book project, the Last Latinist, a biography of poet Eric Johnson, by traveling through India and Nepal.
Stern (magazine)
Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...
, Vive, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and others as he's plied his management of magazines in Europe and Asia. His freelance work is represented by The Cover Story in Amsterdam.
He’s also done extensive profiles including political and social figures like former President Bill Clinton; broke the internationally renowned story of Attilla Ambrus, the Whiskey Robber in Hungary; was one of the first journalists to interview Belgian Islamic political extremist Abu Ja Ja(an article that caused him to receive death threats from the same convicted murderer of Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh (film director)
Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Dutch film director, film producer, columnist, author and actor.Van Gogh worked with the Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce the film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam and aroused controversy among Muslims...
); F1 champion Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi Matias Räikkönen , nicknamed Iceman, is a Finnish racing driver, who will drive in Formula One for Lotus in . After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in which he took the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, he competed in the World Rally Championship from 2009-2011.Räikkönen entered...
; Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winning economist Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...
and the former Philippine president Fidel Ramos among others.
His specialty are creatives though: entertainers, intellectuals, celebrity oddities and simply interesting entities that make a culture and a place. Writers Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...
; Jonathan Saffran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
(Everything is Illuminated); David Sedaris
David Sedaris
David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor....
(Me Talk Pretty Someday); Joe Klein
Joe Klein
Joe Klein is a longtime Washington, D.C. and New York journalist and columnist, known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim...
(Primary Colors) and other literary figures; artists such as Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
; photographic legends Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...
and Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
; Jacques Lebel; popstars like Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
; The Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. Business leaders such as former CEO of General Electric Jack Welch
Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. is an American chemical engineer, business executive, and author. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001...
and present CEO of Heineken, Jean François van Boxmeer. His lost weekend with Ron Jeremy
Ron Jeremy
Ronald Jeremy Hyatt , usually called Ron Jeremy, is an American pornographic actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list...
in Amsterdam, the American porn star, and a wild goat was one of his stranger experiences. His travel pieces include reports on Mykonos
Mykonos
Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 9,320 inhabitants most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The town is also...
, Greece; St. Martin, the Caribbean; Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
; Transylvania
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
, Romania and others.
CNN did a World Report item about Sam when we was covering his favorite story in Holland, the 101 Worst, Weirdest and most Wonderful things to do in the Netherlands as well as being profiled in the countries most prestigious publication, Vrij Nederland
Vrij Nederland
Vrij Nederland is a Dutch magazine which was established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper but has since grown into a magazine. The weekly magazine is generally considered to be intellectually left-wing...
. He has appeared as a guest on more than 17 TV and radio talk shows as a guest as well as at political debates and public functions.
He’s lived ten years in Budapest Hungary (1990–2000) first starting as an archaeologist for the Derî Museum in Debrecen, conducting paleoethnobotanical research on Neolithic
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
sites, teaching Native American history and anthropology at ELTE University and then moving onto media. He was the editor of Central Europe’s first independent foreign language paper, Budapest Week
Budapest Week
Budapest Week was a weekly English-language newspaper in Budapest, Hungary, founded in March of 1991. It served the expatriate population and larger English-speaking population in Hungary....
, as well as Group Editor for Budapest Style, Where Magazine Budapest, Business Hungary, NLG and others in the years following communism, as free and uncensored media sprung up in these countries. He was the editor of and Expatriates Handbook to Hungary as well as the Best of Budapest and pioneered a pirate radio program on Tilos Rádió
Tilos Rádió
Tilos Rádió is a community, non-profit, listener supported radio station in Budapest, Hungary.-Overview:Tilos Rádió was the first community radio station in Hungary, established as a pirate broadcaster in 1991. The station's programmers have always contributed on a voluntary basis...
called "The Good, the Bad and the Unlistenable" whose guests included Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary". He has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time. He has also made cameos on...
of MTV, internet guru and columnist John Barlow
John Barlow
John Barlow was an English diplomat and spy in the time of Henry VIII.-Life:He graduated M.A. at the University of Oxford in 1521.Barlow was intimately involved in the King's attempts to secure a divorce from his first wife, Katherine of Aragon from the Pope. Barlow was a supporter of Henry's...
, and Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
.
In 2000, he came to the Netherlands, living seven years in Amsterdam where he became Editor-in-Chief of Expats Magazine and became a contributor and columnist to award winning publication Amsterdam Weekly
Amsterdam Weekly
Amsterdam Weekly was a free English-language cultural paper from Amsterdam, published every Wednesday.The paper offered mainly information about cultural topics and events like live concerts, theater, movies, gay and lesbian scene in and around Amsterdam....
(Lekker Bezig); Expatica; Roundabout
Roundabout
A roundabout is the name for a road junction in which traffic moves in one direction around a central island. The word dates from the early 20th century. Roundabouts are common in many countries around the world...
(Ssay) and Sum Magazine (the Internationals). In 2004 he was called to take part of an ambitious editorial project by Heineken International: to completely format a new global content direction of all the corporate communications including all their magazines and online content be that the World of Heineken (the company's consumer brand magazine); Horizon (the management, internal magazine), the Heineken News Network (an intranet news service) and the company's corporate website, www.heinekeninternational.com http://www.heinekeninternational.com. As appointed Editor-in-Chief, he helped revitalize the content through interviews, feature writing and a total revamping of all titles in design and delivery. The experience also allowed him to travel to the company's many global operations including Spain, France, Greece, St. Martins and others as he covered stories and helped local partners align to the new corporate vision.
From September, 2006, he became the Managing Editor for Vision KL http://www.visionkl.com/ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he and his lovely wife, DJ Stella Nutella http://www.stellanutella.com/, made a name for themselves in the media fields of music and publishing. He continued on that path, revamping the magazine and helping to create communication strategies for the Malaysia International Gourmet Festival (MIGF)http://migf.com, until 2008 when he decided to devote himself full-time to his current book project, the Last Latinist, a biography of poet Eric Johnson, by traveling through India and Nepal.