ABOUT US

The E-Word & The Editor

The E-Word Journal derives from a magazine adventure I embarked upon during my early years of college many years ago. It was called The Word Magazine. And much like The E-Word Journal, its intent was to become a salient voice of American social and political observation and criticism.

And while the gallant effort to find financial support for this multi-million dollar venture, ultimately proved unsuccessful, it started for me, nonetheless, an amazing journey into the worlds of mass media, the arts, politics and intellectualism.

My media journey began with an apprenticeship at Esquire Magazine and the Ziff-Davis publishing company under the auspices of the National Magazine Publishers Association and has included associations and friendships with many celebrity authors among them Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Melvin Van Peoples, Jimmy Breslin, James Wechsler, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed and many others. I have worked in television, radio, film and journalism over the years and written for many media outlets on the east and west coasts of the USA, including the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Boston television stations, The New York Amsterdam News, The New York Age, The University Review and sundry others.

We live today in a world quite different from that which existed in the late nineteen-sixties and the nineteen-seventies both in political terms as well as regards our media circumstances, when my writing career began. Today we see the beginning signs of what promises to become a new era of American idealism as well as the liberating force of the new media technology which caused its birth- the world wide web or the Internet.

In the previous era when we saw our nation’s media consolidate into the multimedia mega-conglomerates of today, we also witnessed the rise of a neo-conservative political trend and a globalization of the world’s economy that has now rendered Americans desperate for change and starved for a meaningful sense of control over their lives.

But during the era of unprecedented media consolidation I took what proved to be an extended sabbatical from my writing pursuits to immerse myself in family life and more classic business endeavors. Yet during my years away from my first love of writing, I promised myself, one day to return, when conditions were ripe.

That time for me has arrived. And so I am returning to bring new life to an old idea, whose mission now is more urgent than ever before. And in the days, weeks, months and years ahead I will endeavor to bring to you, a unique and compelling, and accurate view of the American social and political landscape; a view that objectively informs and empowers you; in my earnest quest to enrich our democracy. I will bring to you:

R. Lee Cook