Colin McEnroeSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Before that with WTIC-AM Infinity-owned CBS affiliate for 16 years -- ending Dec. 31 2008. Free-lance journalist. Currently a weekly columnist in the Sunday edition of the Hartford Courant . Has been a contributing editor at Best Life Men's Health at Mirabella for its first two years (1989-91) and at Mademoiselle during the mid-1990s.

Currently writes a column for newbie cyclists in Bicycling. Has also written for the New York Times Op-Ed Page Cosmopolitan McSweeneys The Funny Times Forbes FYI Backpacker and perhaps a dozen other magazines. The digital world. In 1999 before the word blog was in vogue McEnroe started a diary-style feature on the digital platform of the Hartford Courant.

Also in that year he wrote an essay published in the monograph for the American Press Institute's Design 2020: Vision of the newspaper of the future. In it he correctly predicted many of the changes that would face the industry in the coming decade.

Newspapers are not dead McEnroe wrote but the thing that flops on your lawn once a day seven days a week probably is. McEnroe came back on the Courant's platform in 2005 with a new blog called To Wit. To Wit was voted Best Blog in the Hartford Advocate's Readers Poll for 2009. Teaching.

Two stints as an adjunct professor at Trinity College in Hartford. In the second teaching graduate seminars he has alternated between courses on the digital world and courses on mass media's coverage of American politics.

He developed a teaching style in which each seminar student creates a blog posts all homework there and has access to the blogs of all fellow students. Other teachers at Trinity are now trying this format. In 2009 he taught a new course called McLuhan 5.0 looking at the struggles of old media and the rise of new models. Playwright.

A Woman of a Certain Age with book by McEnroe and songs by Steve Metcalf and Lary Bloom was produced in May 2003 at the Ivoryton Playhouse. Public Speaker. Widely known for speeches and lectures both humorous and serious usually both.

He has also developed a strong reputation as a moderator bringing out the best in panels that included Kurt Vonnegut Salman Rushdie Joyce Carol Oates Amy Tan Andy Rooney Lesley Stahl Morley Safer P.J. O'Rourke Mort Sahl the writers and voices of The Simpsons Sinbad Joy Behar Molly Ivins Anita Hill and Ray Suarez.

Hundreds of other speaking appearances at writer's conferences graduations library groups and the prestigious winter lecture series at Wood's Hole on Cape Cod. Work with orchestras. After performing spoken word parts with several orchestras McEnroe began work with conductor Edward Cumming on a new series of concerts with the Hartford Symphony.

These Classical Connections concerts incorporate work from other disciplines to shed light on each composer and attempt also to create a conversation among the conductor narrator audience soloists and orchestra players.