Buck Wolf
| Buck Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ken Wolf December 24, 1964 |
| Occupation | Executive editor of the Huffington Post |
Buck Wolf is the executive editor of crime and weird news at The Huffington Post, the weird news guide at About.com, and a member of the Us Weekly Fashion Police.
Wolf writes on film, music and TV, but specializes in offbeat features. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, the Miami Herald, and New York Newsday, and he's appeared as a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
One investigative piece succeeded in getting Larry Harmon's version of Bozo the Clown thrown out of the International Clown Hall of Fame, after he proved that Harmon had falsely described himself as the original Bozo.[1] Wolf was part of the 2001 Peabody Award-winning team at ABC News that covered the September 11 attacks.
At ABCNEWS.com from 1997 to 2007, Wolf was entertainment producer and author of The Wolf Files, a weekly pop culture report that was also featured on ABC radio stations across the country.
A collection of his work at ABC, The Wolf Files: Adventures in Weird News, was published in 2003 by Globe Pequot Press.[2]
In 2009, Wolf launched the Weird News section at AOL News.[3] After AOL purchased the Huffington Post in 2011, Wolf and his core reporters formed HuffPost Weird News. Wolf is also the executive editor of Huffpost Crime.
In 2014, Wolf won a Shorty Award [4] in the Weird Category. It was presented by Andrew W.K. [5]
Wolf, a native of Great Neck, New York, began his writing career working for Generation magazine at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984. His column, written on a very early Macintosh computer (probably the Mac 128 or at best the 512), was called "The Ken Wolf Show," and had the slogan, "Live! From high atop the basement of Harriman Hall," where the magazine's offices were then located. The magazine's original offices have since been replaced by a tree.
Another of Wolf's interests is the Rubik's Cube. He has written several pieces in HuffPost Weird News about the Rubik's Cube, especially about speed-cubing records at Rubik's Cube competitions. In one piece in 2014, Wolf conducted an interview with U.S. Rubik's Cube Champion Anthony Brooks, who explained to him the Fridrich method for solving a Rubik's cube. Wolf then invited his nephew, Michael Wolf-Sonkin, onto the set. Brooks and Wolf-Sonkin proceeded to have a Rubik's Cube race, where Brooks was able to solve several cubes (including two which he solved with only one hand) before Wolf-Sonkin finished one (in the relatively slow time of thirty-eight seconds).[6]
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References
- ↑ McLellan, Dennis (July 4, 2008). "Larry Harmon, 83; entrepreneur made Bozo the Clown a star". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
- ↑ The Wolf Files: Adventures in Weird News. Globe Pequot. 2003. ISBN 9780762728534. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/03/1513929/where-news-weird-king-aol-serious-about-ufos-magic-trees-vicki-lawre
- ↑ http://shortyawards.com/wolfb
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1YLY_Jtxuo
- ↑ "OVGuide". OVGuide. Retrieved 2016-11-06.