J. Oliver Conroy is a New York-based writer and journalist who has contributed reported features, essays, criticism, humor, and political commentary to a range of publications. He is particularly interested in political and religious ideology, extremist movements, free speech and civil liberties, and crime and law enforcement.
As a contract commissioning editor at The Guardian US, he assigns and edits opinions and features from writers across the country, as well as reviews new books for potential excerpts; secures interviews for the newspaper with political figures, writers and celebrities; and assists with specialized reporting assignments as needed.
He studied political science, modern history, and English literature at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and also spent time as a visiting student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He holds a master's in journalism from New York University.
Prior to pursuing journalism and writing full-time he spent several years working in the public relations industry, where he represented clients in the technology, finance, and media sectors. Before securing a tenuous foothold in bourgeois respectability, he also worked as a night watchman, janitor, telemarketer, drugstore cashier, fry cook, bar-back, golf caddy, and at one point in college made side-money by volunteering his mind to various psychological experiments. The researchers were left just as baffled as he is.
In his spare time he enjoys reading, film, travel, and the outdoors.
As a contract commissioning editor at The Guardian US, he assigns and edits opinions and features from writers across the country, as well as reviews new books for potential excerpts; secures interviews for the newspaper with political figures, writers and celebrities; and assists with specialized reporting assignments as needed.
He studied political science, modern history, and English literature at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and also spent time as a visiting student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He holds a master's in journalism from New York University.
Prior to pursuing journalism and writing full-time he spent several years working in the public relations industry, where he represented clients in the technology, finance, and media sectors. Before securing a tenuous foothold in bourgeois respectability, he also worked as a night watchman, janitor, telemarketer, drugstore cashier, fry cook, bar-back, golf caddy, and at one point in college made side-money by volunteering his mind to various psychological experiments. The researchers were left just as baffled as he is.
In his spare time he enjoys reading, film, travel, and the outdoors.
