Evan Benn
- Senior Director of Special Projects and Communications, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Writer, Freelance
Philadelphia
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MSN,
The New York Times,
Bloomberg Businessweek,
Bloomberg News,
USA Today,
Esquire,
Miami Herald,
Bon Appetit,
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and
Covers:
restaurants, food, chefs, beer, dining trends, craft beer, news, breaking news, miami-dade county, miami
Senior Director of Special Projects & Communications @phillyinquirer. Alum: @miamiherald, @stltoday, @yorkdispatch, @medillschool. ebenn@inquirer.com
Evan Benn’s Biography
Benn wrote his first front-page newspaper story at age 12, as an intern at his hometown paper, The York (Pa.) Dispatch/Sunday News. He graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2004. Benn worked for five years as a Metro reporter at The Miami Herald, covering cops, hurricanes and other breaking news. In 2009 he joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a features writer and editor. He soon picked up the beer beat and in 2012 became the paper's food critic. Benn rejoined The Miami Herald in April 2013 as a Staff Writer.